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Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why

Think of AI training as a room full of people working calculators. For years, adding computational power meant adding more people with calculators to that room. Much of the time those workers... Read more »

Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable

Membrane technologies have made up essentially all new desalination capacity in recent years; the last major thermal plant built in the Gulf came online in 2018. Many reverse osmosis plants still rely... Read more »

Enabling agent-first process redesign

In an agent-first enterprise, AI systems operate processes while humans set goals, define policy constraints, and handle exceptions. “You need to shift the operating model to humans as governors and agents as... Read more »

The one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI

These conversations have unsurprisingly left many workers in a panic (and are probably contributing to support for efforts to entirely pause the construction of data centers, some of which gained steam last... Read more »

Four things we’d need to put data centers in space

Large structures with hundreds of square meters of solar arrays would quickly suffer damage from small pieces of space debris and meteorites, which would over time degrade the performance of their solar... Read more »

Fuel prices are soaring. Plastic could be next.

Plastic production accounts for roughly 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions today. And our current moment shows just how embedded oil and gas products are in our lives. It goes far beyond... Read more »

The Download: gig workers training humanoids, and better AI benchmarks

Zeus is a data recorder for Micro1, which sells the data he collects to robotics firms. As these companies race to build humanoids, videos from workers like Zeus have become the hottest... Read more »

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots in 2025. And at-home data recording is becoming a booming gig economy around the world. Data... Read more »

AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.

Across the organizations where this approach has emerged and started to be applied, the first step is shifting the unit of analysis.  For example, in one UK hospital system in the period... Read more »

The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.  1 California has defied Trump to impose new AI regulations Governor Newsom signed off on the new standards yesterday.  (Guardian) + Firms seeking... Read more »