Victor Galaz

Google’s “AI Overviews” Supercharge Iran Hoaxes Prompted with reverse-image searches, Google’s AI summaries falsely identify fabricated and misleading visuals as authentic, NewsGuard found.

Newsguard | Google’s reverse-image tool is producing inaccurate AI-generated summaries of fabricated and misleading visuals tied to the U.S.-Iran conflict.

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When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers

This is great reporting about local opposition towards data centres in the US. This is likely to become a huge issue in many parts of the world.

New York Times | The Daily

“When AI Comes to Town”

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The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – New START – expires today. This is what we need to do:

nobelassembly.org/declaration/

Drawing by Shing Yin Khor featuring a person in a Spider-Man mask and sweater and bunny hat with fist upraised. Text reads "For Liam -- I hope you never have to be this scared again. We love you. #comics4liam / SYK / comics4liam.com

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

Symptomatiskt för Sverige ändå att vissa blir eld och lågor över att Bruce Springsteen skrivit en ny rocklåt i protest om Trump, men helt missat att de absolut bästa motståndssånger mot vansinnet i USA redan funnits ett tag - signerade Bad Bunny.

The sound of the world’s smallest violin 🎻 🎶

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

"Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded? Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement | PNAS AI is expected to reshape society and labor markets, yet experts remain divided on whether AI will primarily displace human labor or generate new e...

People exposed to messages about AI as a labor-replacing (instead of labor-creating) technology end up distrusting democracy and show less willingness to engage politically with future AI developments. Interesting in @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Over 10,000 doctoral-trained experts left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce. The National Institutes of Health tops the list with more than 1,100 departures.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Oh, how kawaii!

Have only read the abstract, but this looks like a quite bold call!

As an immigrant myself, this photo truly breaks my heart.

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever.

🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

“Make China great again”?

Mind-blowing visuals in NYT about how China is winning the clean tech revolution.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

USA siktar på Grönlands och Latinamerikas råvaror - Klotet USA lämnar en rad globala överenskommelser och organisationer på klimatområdet. Fram stiger en stormakt som obunden vill kunna säkra olja och mineraler. ...

Bra samtal med @vgalaz.bsky.social och Sveriges Radios reportrar i #Klotet, även om vad som nu händer i EU, under skicklig programledning av @mlkristola.bsky.social. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/usa-...

Kai's write up and @cailinmeister.bsky.social's thread do a great job of summarizing our results. Rather than cover them a third time, I thought I'd clarify some misconceptions over our piece and COIS more broadly that keep cropping up scattered across replies. 🧵🧪

This is extremely interesting, and in need of deeper conversations amongst scholars and policymakers - yes, looking at you research funders and agencies.

Bad Bunny Pays Tribute to Late Protest Singer Víctor Jara & More Uplifting Moments in Latin Music Uplifting Moments in Latin Music: Bad Bunny tributes Víctor Jara, Xavi kicks off U.S. tour, & Latin Grammy Foundation launches new scholarships.

I’m not crying you are… 🥹

www.billboard.com/music/latin/...

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.

It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Illustration showing men in uniform, showing differences between ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and more.

NYT landing page right now. Just insane that a major US newspaper needs to put together a graphic and article like this.

"The union also wants limitations on hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence."

AIs are biased toward some Indian castes — how can researchers fix this? Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.

Popular AI models often reproduce harmful stereotypes about Indian castes

go.nature.com/455Sz1N

xAI and El Salvador Pioneer the World's First Nationwide AI Education Program | xAI Announcing Our Transformative Partnership with the Government of El Salvador.

Oh dear...

El Salvador to provide Grok to "5,000 public schools, delivering personalized learning to over one million students and empowering thousands of teachers as collaborative partners in education."

x.ai/news/el-salv...

Varningen: Stora datacenter kan höja elpriset - Ekot I år är ansökningarna om stora datacenter i Sverige som vill ansluta sig till elnätet fem gånger högre än förra året.”Vi har ansökningar på över 5000 megawatt ...

“[M]otsvarande produktionen från fem kärnkraftsreaktorer”.

Alla de organisationer som hajpat användningen av AI i Sverige får hemskt gärna återkomma med en plan på hur detta ska gå ihop med mänskliga elpriser och klimatmål.

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