Month: January 2026
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The Swiss Alps used to be the place where world leaders pretended to solve global crises over canapés. This year, Davos didn’t even bother with the pretense. The promenade—once a parade of climate NGOs and global‑control think tanks—was swallowed whole by tech giants staging what looked less like a global forum and more like a…
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How the World Sleepwalked into Building Skynet The image is almost too terminator on‑the‑face: the U.S. defense secretary standing inside SpaceX’s Starbase, framed by stainless‑steel rockets and the mythology of techno‑destiny, announcing that the Pentagon will become an “AI‑first” military. Not “AI‑enhanced.” Not “AI‑assisted.” AI‑first. And then the kicker: Elon Musk’s Grok will be plugged…
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— And Everyone Else Better Pay Attention In a world where AI models can clone your face, mimic your voice, and puppeteer your digital ghost before you’ve even had your morning coffee, Matthew McConaughey just did something that feels downright old‑school: he filed paperwork. Eight trademarks. His voice. His likeness. His iconic “Alright, alright, alright.”…
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Northeastern University has launched the Center for Responsible AI and Governance (CRAIG), a first‑of‑its‑kind National Science Foundation Industry‑University Cooperative Research Center dedicated solely to responsible AI. Bringing together more than 35 researchers across four universities—and industry partners ranging from Meta to Nationwide—CRAIG aims to transform responsible‑AI principles into practical, deployable methods that companies can actually…
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🧭 The Public Revolt Against AI’s Energy Footprint Has Finally Hit the National Stage This week, President Donald Trump escalated the fight, publicly pressuring major AI companies to absorb the skyrocketing electricity costs tied to their data‑center expansion. In a statement that immediately ricocheted across the industry, Trump declared that Americans “will not pick up…
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The mainstream story says AI is driving innovation. The data says AI is driving your electric bill. And the deeper story — the one almost no outlet touches — is that the public is being maneuvered into subsidizing a private digital infrastructure whose primary purpose is not AI inference, but massive-scale data storage, behavioral telemetry,…
