Really interesting story here. You know how the hyperscaler cowboys are powering their data centers with gas turbines? It turns out the demands of AI are not very friendly to those turbines. They're supposed to last 5+ years & instead they're wearing out in under 12 months!

Harriet Weber@harri.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...

Chef’s kiss stuff

Everyone thinks the UK should be building homes on brownfield land - but while we have a lot, most of it is in just a few urban areas. Most local authorites have less than five years' supply. Just one of many reasons Burnham will struggle to meet his housing ambitions

Household inflation expectations in the US are worryingly high In surveys & social media, people expect higher inflation in the long term. The market is more sanguine, but it's household behaviour that matters Warsh's Fed risks being all talk and no action on rates as.ft.com/r/bfb57ad3-6...

Burnham’s cabinet is the first to achieve gender parity. And the Office for Equality and Opportunity will move to the MHCLG with Bridget Phillipson remaining in post as Minister for Women and Equalities. Here’s our IfG breakdown of what yesterday’s announcements mean for women in government … 🧵

Tremendous piece from @claradoodle.bsky.social in FT Wealth: why have rich lists (a device to sell newspapers) become so important to politicians, activists et al? www.ft.com/content/2680...

Our obsession with rich lists is a problem

As calls increase globally for a wealth tax, how reliable are these compilations — and why have they become load-bearing?

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New ↪️ ✨ : Allbirds recently pivoted its business from shoes to AI servers. Its share price spiked 860% but has plunged back down. That's a pattern repeated across many recent AI rebrands as former cancer drug and goldmining cos add buzzy AI-related terms to their names, I found

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Welcome to the era of AI slop on social media! 41% of long posts on LinkedIn were flagged for AI, 31% on Medium, and 29% on X/Twitter. I think people will be looking more and more for authentic, original voices on social media.

We're hiring in my team at @financialtimes.com - please do reach out if you have any questions. Whilst this is currently a contract role we have every hope of extending. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm not sure we've done a good job explaining the "journalism" part of data journalism: data2story.github.io

New 🦾: Did Anthropic talk its way into an AI export ban? I found the company talked about risk, regulation and restrictions eight times more than its rival OpenAI this year… adding weight to critics’ claims they have “doom-mongered” about their latest Mythos model

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

New ⚒️: The AI boom is lifting the fortunes of hundreds of formerly drab industrial, utility and mining companies as investors turn to the “picks and shovels” needed to build and power vast data centres.

huh, I've been using Gemini for transcripts for ages but this is my first time realising it actually censors them

‘SpaceX has said it is seeking to raise as much as $86bn at a valuation of $1.78tn, as Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI group prepares for the world’s biggest initial public offering.’ www.ft.com/content/9528...

🚀 Elon Musk has shifted focus from SpaceX to UK politics, amplifying far-right voices to his 240mn followers. We found a third of Musk's recent posts focused on the UK, a 10-year high, raising concern about his political influence ahead of a critical by-election. as.ft.com/r/b1cb096a-e...

The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. M. Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators. 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/11

Forget Wordle. Play small caged mammal on the run. www.ft.com/content/dad4...

small caged mammal on the run

in the grim darkness of the near future, small caged mammal

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A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...

A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims

The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.

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This summer, children age 5-15 will be able to pilot oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for free

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 3mo ago

Maybe I just hate fun but couldn't £300m be better spent on literally anything that would actually help with the energy supply problem at the heart of the Cost of Living Crisis? We could have another solar farm but the government is juicing demand for tickets to the Mandalorian and Grogu instead.

The 1920s version of your favourite restaurant being called a “hidden gem” on TikTok?

With Keir Starmer's premiership hanging in the balance, @amyborrett.ft.com has put together the definitive set of charts to summarise his tumultuous tenure A few 👇👇and more 👉https://as.ft.com/r/41e56e14-02de-400a-96bd-38a0a4b6efc6

Just when you thought there was no possible way to do a fresh data angle on the Eurovision... Love this look at the lyrics by @puntofisso.bsky.social puntofisso.net/eurovision/

70 years of love, empowerment, and freedom. Here's a look at Eurovision by its lyrics.

Famous for its upbeat rhythms, flamboyant performances, and political voting patterns, Eurovision has another dimension that moves with the zeitgeist: its song lyrics.

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as a data journalist I am obliged to argue for a synthesis. a third way. We can create a world where both stories and spreadsheets support each other to thrive. A world where we don't judge a spreadsheet by its file extension but by the content of its cells

New: Oil prices are spiralling & consumers are cutting back... But the world's biggest companies have added more than $5.4tn in value since the start of the war on Iran. I took a deep dive - w/the help of our expert companies reporters - into how the AI boom is hiding wider hits to big business.

Super interesting deep dive into the economics of touring as an indie band open.substack.com/pub/loscampe...

📈 Los Camp! Present Their Tour Accounts

🔍 A detailed breakdown of the cost of our 2024 North American Tour

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New: Companies are warning that soaring oil and gas prices following the Iran war are forcing them to put up prices. At least 10% of S&P500 companies — including P&G, Kimberley Clark and United Airlines — used their Q1 earnings call to signal price rises, our analysis found. @chriscook.news

Got my first election chart crime today