1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (415+ words) When Meta engineer David Frenk posted an anti-AI farewell parody video in an internal message board, staff thought it perfectly captured shifts in company culture. CIR/Courtesy of David Frenk "There's a bit of a disconnect," one former employee who…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (729+ words) Mother Jones Mother Jones illustration; Hugh Kenny/PECVA; Billy Hathorn/Wikimedia You've probably heard that data centers are sprouting all over America like weeds in an empty field. You may also have heard that they are huge water hogs, sucking…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (223+ words) On what was recently farmland, Amazon data centers have been built as close as 50 feet from houses in Aldie, Virginia. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post/Getty Virginia might be for lovers, but more recently, it's for data centers. The state…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (418+ words) Sam Altman arrives at the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Open AI admitted it had to develop a specific instruction in the code of its latest model of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (368+ words) The world is entering an "age of electricity," according to two new reports by the International Energy Agency and Ember. Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty via Grist "This was a year when the economy boomed, electricity demand grew very healthily'and still…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (853+ words) Abby Vesoulis May+June 2026 Issue Mathematician Tsvi Benson-Tilsen once worked at the Peter Thiel'funded Machine Intelligence Research Institute, where he was one of many experts tasked with figuring out how to ensure AI doesn't eventually destroy humankind. After seven years,…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1282+ words) Open AI became the world's most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to $500 billion. The company and its remarkable chatbot Chat GPT have single-handedly accelerated AI's boom and threatened…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (386+ words) Independent journalism needs you now. Today is the final day of our Spring Membership Drive, and we're still short of our goal. Donations from readers like you power our newsroom to cover the kind of stories that otherwise get missed…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (88+ words) The sheer cognitive dissonance'hearing a song so deeply human, so personal and reflective, used to advertise a chatbot'was unsettling. What was it doing in a commercial for a technology that I fear is only good for alienating us from ourselves?...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1796+ words) Emily Tate Sullivan6 minutes ago In a video that has been played almost 50, 000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing along as they guide viewers through the experience of riding in a car amid a vividly…...