The buyer who never switches off: why AI will pay any price for electricity
Energy executive Yasin Kasirga on the Compute Heat Rate: why AI data centres can pay 142 times the industrial power price, and who pays for the emissions.
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Oct 15, 2026
The tech backlash is now in theaters
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything paints a damning picture of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as she prepares for her ongoing stint in prison. After years…
We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.
Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or edited with OpenAI." As pointed out by users on Reddit, the picture of the "restored" column has an uneven number of steps on both sides of the structure. The number of steps also doesn't…
AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For
Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.
Nscale’s $35 Billion IPO Plans Muddied by AI Data Center Delays
One flagship AI data center in Norway is six months behind schedule, with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to get it over the finish line.
Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety practices
The company is also engaged in early-stage discussions with other organizations, including Hugging Face.
AI Race Heats Up Again a Month After Calls for a Slowdown
The competition to build more advanced AI remains as fierce as ever.
Don't See Canary in Coal Mine For AI: Khoda
Neha Khoda, head of US credit strategy at BofA Securities, and Stephanie Doyle, fixed income portfolio manager at JPMorgan Investment Management, join Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." A measure of CoreWeave’s credit risk climbed to an all-time high Thursday as some of its high-yield bonds extended declines, rattled by the AI cloud-computing company’s talk of tapping vast pools of capital from insurers. (Source: Bloomberg)
What CEOs See as the Biggest Risks to Their Businesses
Tim Walsh, chairman and CEO at KPMG US, says CEOs broadly recognize AI’s importance and are investing, but measurable business transformation and returns are taking time. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Meta and Apple team up on AI model tailored for Mac computers
Partnership between Big Tech rivals offers ‘open’ system that users can download to their own devices
The AI boom stumbles
Should investors prepare for an AI bust? And if so, how?
Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." You can make your own Attie app by typing in a prompt. A simple poll I made about Pokémon Red and Pokémon…
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
Nvidia and Cisco confirm multimillion-dollar donations to Trump's White House ballroom
Big Tech gave millions to Trump's White House ballroom, documents show
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Anthropic grants non-profit METR ‘employee-like’ access to monitor AI risks
CEO Dario Amodei has made bringing in external evaluators one of his main proposals to address safety concerns
AI Music Deals Are Happening, But How Artists Will Be Paid Remains a Mystery
How exactly AI money will flow through the music industry remains ambiguous
Anthropic Stands Alone as Rest of US IPO Market Slows to a Crawl
A cocktail of risks is threatening to stall the US IPO pipeline, leaving Anthropic PBC’s potential blockbuster debut as one of the few offerings that investors can count on.