xAI will start removing its foul, "temporary" methane generators between now and July 2027, and is meanwhile working to "reduce environmental impacts" of currently-functioning ones. BS that is fuel to Justin Pearson and @keshaunpearson.bsky.social's inspiring fight 💪 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement

Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout.

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"Us too!" After OpenAI let its model hack Hugging Face and other companies, Anthropic checked the same thing hadn’t happened with them. Guess what? It did! Three times! But they won’t say with whom. The hubris, vanity and one-upmanship is nothing short of pathetic www.anthropic.com/news/investi...

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environmen...

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1000+ frontier AI lab staffers call for an AI slowdown (or rather regulation speed up): www.pacingthefrontier.com Curious, because: - They include Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan, 2 of those most responsible for today’s mess - The same thing happened 3 years ago, led by Elon, who then launched xAI

Pacing the Frontier

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

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Excellent and necessary resource. Check it out 🤩

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last wk.

There are a LOT of proposed solutions to climate change out there. But how do you know what actually works? And what doesn’t? Check out the Drawdown Explorer. It’s based on real evidence — not hype, greenwashing, or ideology. And it’s 100% open and free. Drawdown.org/explorer

Whilst Europe struggles through its third heatwave in 3 months, big tech emissions have risen 42% 2020-25. *Because of AI*. In contradiction of their own climate pledges and planetary boundaries. How much of this increase is justifiable vs AI shoved down our throats? www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesm...

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

In which @meredithmeredith.bsky.social tells @theatlantic.com that her team had to block Windows AI agents from screenshotting desktop Signal conversations. This is - chillingly - impossible with macOS podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson

Épisode de l’émission · The Most Interesting Thing in AI · 1 juillet · 51 min

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France’s environment minister canceled a train trip from the south of France back to Paris and took a plane instead. During last week’s heatwave. As the French say, (I’m so shocked) it makes my arms fall off 😳😳😳

Bon Pote@bonpote.com · last mo.

Selon Mediapart, lors d'une visite dans les Pyrénées-Orientales le 20 juin, la ministre de la transition écologique Monique Barbut a annulé son retour prévu en TGV pour prendre l'avion. « Il n’était pas question que la ministre se retrouve bloquée dans un train » a déclaré son cabinet.

Hmm. So does this mean: - the Trump administration is stupid? OR: - we just don’t *need* models as huge and resource-consuming as Fable 5? 🤔

Kevin Schaul@kevinschaul.bsky.social · last mo.

Anthropic says its weakest model, many of OpenAI's and at least one Chinese open-weight model can all find the vulns and exploit that prompted the U.S. to effectively ban it. www.anthropic.com/news/redeplo...

In Stellantis (Peugeot etc)’s Mulhouse factory, metal workers sweltering in 40 degree factories get two bottles of water. *The robots have their own AC…* whose heat rejections make the humans even hotter 🥵🥵🥵 (article in French) flip.it/8Pvbs_

Canicule : les salariés de Stellantis Mulhouse suffoquent dans les ateliers, "les robots ont des clims et nous, non"

La CGT de l'usine Stellantis de Mulhouse a lancé un appel à la grève, mardi 23 juin, à cause de la canicule exceptionnelle qui touche la France. Dans les ateliers, sous les tôles, les températures gri...

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Heatwaves are killing more and more people. The solution, re. @oxfamfrance.bsky.social, is simple: tax the rich. 17 months of profits of petrol company TotalEnergies would fix the problem, re. the NGO reporterre.net/Les-vagues-d... (article in French)

Les vagues de chaleur, une « hécatombe sanitaire grandissante »

Les fortes températures, de plus en plus précoces, provoquent chaque année 5 398 décès en France, selon Oxfam. Elles affectent en priorité les personnes précaires, âgées et les femmes.

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New NBER report says that in order to become profitable, AI needs to drive productivity x2.7. Previous NBER report said AI is driving productivity… 1.4% More in my "Responsible AI” column, in La Machine: www.frenchtechjournal.com/la-machine-8...

This Is Fine Meme

ALT: This Is Fine Meme

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Spot on, @theverge.com. Just adding to the murderous list: the countless numbers of (black) people whose lives Musk is shortening by running his Memphis supercomputers on methane generators, almost doubling local nitrous oxide levels. Pure evil environmental racism www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.

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Congrats to my country for banning social media for under-16s. Whether effective or not (apparently not in Australia) it sends a clear message: GAFAM does not get to decide what's law or not (the current under-13 rule comes from their intense lobbying) www.cnet.com/tech/service...

UK to Ban Social Media for Under-16s, With Sweeping Restrictions for All Teens

Restrictions in the UK will go even further than those in place in Australia, preventing under-17s from accessing livestreams and chatting with strangers. Under-18s are also banned from using romantic...

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Not to do with AI this time apparently: more with Project Nimbus, whereby Google and Amazon support the Israeli military. Fact remains: Gen Z are mega pissed with big tech

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stanford grads walk out of their commencement when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage

Called this 1-2 months ago. All hail "tokenminimising"… about f’ing time, too cc @sashamtl.bsky.social www.theinformation.com/articles/tok...

Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions

Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed the...

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Anthropic: Mythos is too powerful to release 🤔 Trump: Agreed. Non-Americans can now no longer access it 🤯 Or when your own myth-marketing backfires in your own face

Laugh Mock

ALT: Laugh Mock

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Similar to that FT graph that shows app creation is skyrocketing but quality and usage is crumbling. Stop the slop!

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me · 2mo ago

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Yeah great job improving water consumption AWS. Your electricity usage still grew 46%, so logically your emissions did proportionately (60% of data centre power worldwide is still fossil-fueled, and you are the world’s biggest cloud provider). So nice try, but nah cc @ketanjoshi.co

Hendrik Rood@hrood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AWS datacenters consumed 78.9 TWh in 2025, comparable to Belgium. Revealing 2.5 bln gallon water consumption with a WUE of 0.12 L/kWh enables calculating 2025 electricity consumption as well as re-analyze older reported data. 46% growth! @histoftech.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-da...

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

SpaceX's 11% share price boost has made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, controlling two of the world's largest companies. ft.trib.al/r8K3jYL

More essential work from the incredible @ketanjoshi.co. 20GW in just one country is an obscene amount of energy (= 20 nuclear power stations). Why, once again, can’t they make smaller, less energy-sucking models? Scaling at all costs is totally incompatible with a viable planet and has to stop now

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

A brand new piece for Crikey: digging into what happens now for Australia's data centre debate Anthropic, planning 20GW, would have to build 1.7x the amount of all renewable energy ever built in Australia to date, to meet the 100% mandate. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/10/m...

Fable 5, Anthropic’s new model, is at least c. 2-3x bigger than its previous biggest, Opus 4.8. This means it could consume as many more resources. And yet it only scores 11% better on coding benchmark SWE-bench. Crazy, right? To #QuitBigAI, walk this way: bettertech.blog/frugal-ai-sw...

Brilliant. Apple, disappointed about having to *follow EU law*, blames EU law for Siri AI being unreleasable in Europe. So it’s not their fault that imposing one model (Gemini) on all of its clients, with no guarantee of data safety, is illegal. That’s all clear then 🙄 www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

Due to the Digital Markets Act, Apple will not be able to ship Siri AI in the European Union with the release of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.

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AI now costs so much even the hyperscalers can’t afford it. - $121 billion in bonds in 2025, versus a $28 billion annual average 2020-24 (x4) - Tech now = 10% of credit market, vs 2% in 2005 (x5) flip.it/FT7SHE (Interestingly, those multiples are similar to AI’s electricity & water increases 🤭)

JPMorgan sounds the alarm on the runaway cost of AI

The bank says AI's real price tag is showing up where most investors aren't looking.

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This means that Doctolib, the app practically everyone in France uses to book medical appointments - and has received lots of state money as the founder is BFFs with Macron - is sending appointment notes taken by its AI assistant to Meta, Google & co to train their f’ing future models. Nice, eh?

Stupid is as stupid does flip.it/IwX7Aj

Trump expected to announce $700 million in new support for struggling coal industry

President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry. A plan expected to be announced Thursday would spend nearly $700 million to support coal-fired power plants and coal...

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“We're using $300m of Anthropic [Claude Code] this year (…) The vast majority of those tokens don't need to go to Anthropic. There needs to be some intermediary layer that's saying, oh, that one has to go to Anthropic, but these ones can be handled by smaller models…" - Marc Benioff, Salesforce

"Destroy AI!", Ronny Chieng tells Harvard grads youtube.com/shorts/0z7Q0... via @404media.co

Harvard Grads Cheer Comedian Ronny Chieng's AI Speech

YouTube video by 404 Media

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One French person in SIX consulted an AI service before deciding whom to vote for in the recent local elections. FIVE percent changed their minds. Do they know about bias, transparency, how these things are trained (by well off US white dudes)? 🤯 www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...

Municipales 2026 : un électeur sur six a utilisé l’IA pour l’aider dans son choix de vote, révèle une étude

Les élections municipales ont vu, pour la première fois en France, un nombre significatif d’électeurs, environ un sur six, faire appel à l’IA conversationnelle pour déterminer leur choix de vote, d’ap...

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China will add more than six times as much electricity generation capacity as the US over the next five years, re. BloombergNEF. Much of that extra capacity will be in the form of renewables such as solar and wind. The US is SO screwed #QuitBigAI flip.it/lpcVTA

China’s secret weapon in AI race with US? Lots of cheap energy

China's abundant supply of cheap electricity is a key advantage in the rollout of data centres needed to run AI models.

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