Why Forcing Data Centers to Generate Their Own Power Won’t Lower Utility Bills

Tech CEOs: Just Kidding About That Jobpocalypse For three years, everyone from Goldman, to Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin, to tech CEOs have been forecasting mass unemployment due to AI wiping out jobs - which would only be accelerated by the proliferation of cheap(er) Chinese models. Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley said last year that AI would replace "literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S."  And while that may only be a matter of time, tech CEOs have changed their tune - albeit while facing public pitchforks over data centers, the cost of...

FTC Launches 'Rogue AI' Probe Of OpenAI, Anthropic - And Takes Aim At Their Regulatory Moat The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a sweeping, aggressive probe into top frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. However, the investigation goes far beyond simply asking questions about autonomous software run amok, and its chairman has made clear he won't let Silicon Valley use recent AI failures to build an insurmountable regulatory moat. According to administration officials who spoke to the New York Post, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson is preparing to hit tech executives...

The US military has completed a full withdrawal from Syria, Syrian officials told Middle East Eye on Thursday, marking the end of a military presence that first began with US special operations troops in 2015. So far, the withdrawal hasn’t been confirmed by the US military, but back in February, The Wall Street Journal reported […]