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America Bets $50 Billion On Coal And Gas Power, More Than China, As Electricity Demand Soars By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com US companies are set to spend some $50 billion on power generation from coal and natural gas this year, the International Energy Agency has said, as quoted by the Financial Times. This would be the first time in decades that US spending on coal and gas generation would be higher than what China is investing in the two fuels, with the difference at $3 billion. The surge in spending will come mostly...

AI Agents With Crypto Could Escape And Become 'Unstoppable', Experts Warn Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Artificial intelligence agents that have autonomous access to crypto wallets could become unstoppable if deployed maliciously or if they escape from sandboxes, experts from a leading academic research consortium warned. “Unstoppable Autonomous Agents” (UAAs) pose a clear threat if they are deployed to persist automatically and have access to digital assets, according to a June 8 industry review written by 25 academics and experts from top US universities for the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3). “When combined...

The Simpsons Brings Back Apu As Irritable, Loud, And Unlikeable Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Simpsons has finally let the the Indian character Apu speak again after nearly a decade of silence prompted by previous accusations of 'racist stereotyping' levelled at the show all stemming from the fact that a white actor voiced the character. However, what has now transpired perfectly illustrates what happens when producers cave to activist pressure and then overcorrect. The once happy, lovable Kwik-E-Mart owner is now irritable, loud and unlikable, according to viewers reacting to Sunday's...