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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they’re expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Post analysis of data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

One chart shows the incredible reversal at American tech companiesThe AI bet by the country’s leading firms is torching their cash.www.washingtonpost.com

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The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is AstoundingAll over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.futurism.com

Sending Networks of New York to the printer tomorrow or Wednesday aieeeee look at all the graphic designing I did

Cool new project from @mxdylanp.bsky.social and Natalie Rae and their lab: it’s a blog series titled, "Unearthing the Cloud: Civic Action in the AI Era”. The first post explores the question, “'[W]ho gets to have a voice in decisions that shape the places where people live?'"

☀️ U T O P I A N ☀️ M E D I A ☀️ S T U D I E S ☀️ I am so proud of this work w/ Convergence. Kemper & I make the argument that many media scholars use utopian approaches in their research. But we just need to reflect on how to do it together, and do it well. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...www.lrb.co.uk

Dan sees and articulates the role of AI very clearly so this is a good discussion

Great piece on Oracle, the most highly leveraged of the hyperscalers and the one most vulnerable to a burst AI bubble. @asad09.bsky.social: “We are making trillions of dollars in investments on the back of tens of billions of dollars in revenues.”

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.www.nytimes.com

"Microsoft warns that consumers aren't buying enough of the thing they don't want."

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.www.thecrimson.com

Microsoft had its best stock single day stock performance since 2008 this week and Amazon is now ripping as well. The reason for both is that demand for AI services is skyrocketing and they can’t build datacenters fast enough to keep up. It’s a gold rush and the hyperscalers have found the gold

Imagine thinking the first victim of AI has yet to pass... It's people of colour, women, people in the global south, the planet... How embarrassing!

ALEC is a pay-to-play operation that brings together state legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives behind closed doors to write model legislation to advance a radical right-wing agenda on everything from gerrymandering to rewriting the Constitution.

Right-Wing Bill Mill Meeting Centers Voter Suppression, Protecting Data CentersAttendees at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting will consider a number of model policies.truthout.org

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunchSpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.techcrunch.com

Look, I don't know much about this issue, but according to the media I consume which is carefully engineered to piss me off,

You know, Marx has all that stuff about the commodity fetish, but what does he have to say about "numbers are so big there's no way to put in brain"?

This is really the endgame of AI, AI quotes arguing against AI that people use online to say they don’t like AI instead of coming up with their own words about not liking AI

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

Ken Griffin’s hedge fund snapped up the bulk of the firm’s $16bn of public equities in a deal that many market participants believe averted a fire sale of its extensive holdings of AI stocks. ft.trib.al/XCGvGTT