Environment
12 posts
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AI’s Infrastructure Boom Meets Economic and Public Backlash
WSJ: OpenAI’s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared With Anthropic (Aug. 18, 2026) OpenAI’s revenue rose 18% to $6.7 billion in Q2, but losses deepened as rival Anthropic more than…
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AI’s Job Disruption and Data Center Backlash
WSJ: Bill Gates Issues Warning on AI Rollout’s Impact. Three Takeaways From His 5,784-Word Essay (Aug. 26, 2026) Bill Gates warns that AI could rapidly eliminate white- and blue-collar jobs,…
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AI talent exodus and environmental data risks
NY Times: Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up (Aug. 5, 2026) Jeff Dean, with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, are leaving Google to launch Discovery Loop…
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AI Industry Shakeup and Regulatory Backlash
Axios: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside (Aug. 5, 2026) Demis Hassabis is stepping aside as Google DeepMind CEO to become chairman, while Jeff Dean and several colleagues…
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Decentralized AI Access Meets Governance, Safety Risks
Mark Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone (Aug. 10, 2026) Zuckerberg advocates delivering superintelligence broadly, empowering individuals, boosting invention over automation, and spreading prosperity, opportunity, and creation. Balance of power,…
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AI Infrastructure Race and Societal Risks
Linus Tovalds: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? (Jul. 14, 2026) "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing…
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Municipal Budget Cuts, Property Taxes, and Data Centers
The Dallas Morning News recently posted an article about Dallas reducing park-related expenses from its upcoming city budget: The Dallas Park and Recreation Department has made limited progress toward its…
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AI Chip Access and Commercialization Surge
WSJ: Apple’s AI Tools Get China Approval (Jul. 15, 2026) Apple won Chinese approval for Apple Intelligence, allowing the AI features on iPhone and other devices. It will integrate Alibaba’s…
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AI Cloud Expansion Meets Public and Worker Backlash
Anthropic: Anthropic acquires Stainless (May 18, 2026) Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, which builds SDKs, CLIs, and MCP server tooling to help agents connect to APIs, data, and tools. This brings…
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Frank Gehry, RIP
From the NYTimes: Frank Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 Pioneering American architect, Frank Gehry died earlier this month. He is best known for landmark, sculptural buildings such…