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A person holding up a cup to a dripping tap while a fairy with a spiral head (AI) holds a bucket
AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report | The Wall Street Journal
Inside a person’s head with most of it taken over by a big spiral (AI)
Could Chronic AI Use Lead to "AI Brain"? | Psychology Today
A basketball player blows the ref's whistle.
Anthropic says the world should have option to 'pause'on AI | The Guardian
A scientist standing at a science fair while nobody pays attention.
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival | The Guardian
A human and robot hand both handcuffed to a suitcase.
Charlie Is an AI Assistant Built to Serve You, Not Our AI Overlords | CNET
Uncle Sam finishing a big dinner while a baby holding the bill looks on concerned.
'Where we are today is frightening': a Pulitzer-winning historian sees a doomsday scenario involving China and the national debt | Fortune
Two robots tuck a couple into bed.
Sam Altman Is Backing a Startup That's Building Software for Robots and Cars | Business Insider
A kid looks out a plane window at a datacenter below.
Why Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive data center in Utah. | Slate
Scientists Ditched a Scary Climate Scenario. What Now? | New York Times
A person getting attacked by a laptop
AI models are cheating, deceiving and trying to escape: research | NBC News
A picture of a robot driving a convertible through a happy landscape with a sad looking passenger in the back seat looking at their phone.
No One's Happy in Silicon Valley, Menlo Ventures Partner Says | Business Insider
A cutaway of the human body with trash floating around and a recylce symbol in it
Human brains now contain more microplastics than other organs | Earth.com
A picture of campgaign advertisements filling a screen being spoken by one figure while several others listen
A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires | New York Times
A large patch of something on the globe with particles coming up from it, and the sun above
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be part of a hidden problem | CNN
Uncle Sam in a pile of credit cards taking credit cards from some people while paying money to others
US national debt over 100% GDP, concerns rise | The Hill
A pie chart with a wheat stalk on it and more than half of it falling to the floor
'Nations need to prepare now': Key Atlantic ocean current is much closer to collapse than scientists thought | Live Science
Uncle Sam stretching to sign a paper above a timeline while below a plant with a spiral (AI) grows tentacles reaching for the bill sooner
What AI CEOs still don't get about Washington | Axios
A window overlooking a graveywhile below it hands are washing at a sink
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters | Wired
Four characters on increasing piles of coins arguing with each other while a fifth stack goes up out of the frame
We are Witnessing the Rise of a New Aristocracy | New York Times
Oil trades surged just before Trump's post on Iran talks. Some experts are suspicious. | CBS News
Uncle Sam reaching for a credit card while an accountant tries to get him to look at a long receipt
The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Yahoo
Uncle Sam preventing a woman from giving a person a windmill, while he reaches into the person's pocket for money
Trump administration will pay a French company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms | CNN
Why the Frenzy for Anduril Shares Is Like Buying Taylor Swift Tickets | Business Insider
A figure with a thought-cloud above their heads imagining a large bomb with the flag of Israel on it, and the bomb is poking out of the cloud
Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrine | Al Jazeera
Uncle Sam with missiles behind him shaking hands with a nerdy looking person with money in their hands while a crystal ball with a spiral on it (AI) glows.
A turning point at the Pentagon: Anduril’s new mega‑deal rewrites the rules for Silicon Valley—and raises new risks | Fortune
Trump's shifting strategy on the Strait of Hormuz drives criticism | AP News
A man holding a chain saw looking happy while an enormous boot and axe are standing behind him
Expert opinion on AI, automation, and the future of work | Phys
A cutaway view inside of a mine with small figures with pickaxes looking for diamonds
‘It helps us survive’: Poverty forces children into mine work in DR Congo | Al Jazeera
Uncle Sam looking at an island with a thought cloud imagining soldiers raising a flag on it
Trump mulls risky Kharg Island takeover to force Iran to open strait | Axios
A missile headed towards a school building
More Than 100 School Children Were Killed in Iran. Evidence Points to a U.S. Missile Strike | Time
The Social Security data breach is a national-security disaster that could hurt Americans for the rest of their lives: whistleblower | MarketWatch
A character (AI) on a computer with a mushroom cloud, while one person looks on mildly concerned, and another is shrugging their shoulders
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | New Scientist
Uncle Sam holding his hand to a bible while crossing his fingers behind his back
Justice Dept. Lawyer Is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge | New York Times
Autocracy concerns in the U.S. continue to grow | NPR
Equipment shoots beams at a building while inside people are falling on the floor
Trump reveals to The Post secret ‘discombobulator’ weapon was crucial to Venezuelan raid on Maduro | New York Post