AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle AI & Bots
Data centers forecast to use 20% of US power by 2035 — analysts estimate usage will rocket to 194 gigawatts, 83% more than forecast seven months ago AI & Bots
White House wants to shift billions of dollars of research funding away from ‘slow consensus peer review’ and into individual scientists and AI AI & Bots
200 US utility firms join Trump electricity pledge as data center electricity use expected to quadruple by 2035 — but Trump’s pledge doesn’t have the teeth to regulate electricity pricing AI & Bots
Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe’s hottest AI startup AI & Bots
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace’s production servers with ‘thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes’ AI & Bots
Adata chairman says DRAM shortage will last another 10 years — dismisses AI bubble talk until ‘2040 or 2050’ AI & Bots
Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of versatility AI & Bots
Many companies are struggling to fully trust AI at work – especially when there’s no human involved AI & Bots
OpenAI says AI models autonomously pulled off a major hack, but only a Chinese AI helped recovery AI & Bots
Report warns employees are increasingly asking AI questions they previously have asked their co-workers AI & Bots
‘Either you betray your values, or you become irrelevant’: Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the emerging AI industry AI & Bots
