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AI's Hunger for Power Is Triggering a Political Backlash
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 28th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
The vast warehouses of servers that power everything from cloud storage to large language models, now consume 6% of all electricity generated in the United States. New figures suggest that milestone has been quietly crossed, and communities are starting to push back.
New AI tool to assist pathologists in complicated lung cancer analyses
Posted in Medicine, Science on 19th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps doctors more accurately measure a key marker used to decide which lung cancer patients might benefit from certain treatments.
What Would It Actually Mean for AI to Be Generally Intelligent? DeepMind Has a Framework
Posted in Business, Science, Software on 7th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
If the DeepMind framework gains traction, it would give researchers, policymakers, and the public something more useful: a shared vocabulary, a set of specific tests, and a way to actually track whether the technology is getting closer to human-level general intelligence, rather than just asserting that it is.
AI Just Outdiagnosed Doctors in the Emergency Room
Posted in Medicine, Software on 7th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
The goal isn't human versus machine, it's understanding how AI can work alongside clinicians, and whether doing so improves care or introduces new risks.
When AI Agents Go Rogue, Who Gets the Blame?
Posted in Business, Software on 6th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
As they grow more capable and more autonomous, the gap between what they can do and who is accountable for it is widening fast. Debating whether an AI deserves rights while that gap grows is, to put it plainly, missing the emergency.