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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

Privately held and operated nuclear plants to power off the grid data centers... What could go wrong ? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Sim Scene has gone to far... store.steampowered.com/app/4190240/...

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, historien : « En Europe, les réflexes pacifistes resurgissent, dans une forme qui rappelle les années 1930 » Le chercheur analyse, dans un entretien au « Monde » le rapport de l’Occident à la guerre. Il affirme que les Européens refusent d’envisager un conflit possible avec la Russie, d’ici quelques années, ...

Der meister www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

The Anthropic Economic Index The Anthropic Economic Index reveals the shape of AI adoption across the world. Here, you can explore the data behind our research to understand how people are using Claude across every US state and hundreds...

The Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic www.anthropic.com/economic-ind...

Reliere Donogo : The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...

The Ups and Downs of Automated Code Checking Software A recurring theme of this newsletter is that most new ideas and innovations in the construction industry have been tried, often much earlier than you might expect.

The Ups and Downs of Automated Code Checking Software www.construction-physics.com/p/the-ups-an...

Well, according to NATO, "cognitive warfare" is a thing now www.sto.nato.int/wp-content/u...

Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too. China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.

Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms

Marrant un LLM entrainé sur de la data pré 1913 - Super outil d'exploration temporelle GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. github.com/DGoettlich/h...

Help boost your daily productivity with CC, a new experimental AI agent from Google Labs. blog.google/technology/g...

A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

La folle histoire d'un générateur nucléaire de poche perdu par la CIA... sur le toit du monde >>> How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Even Mc Kinsey (which is not your typical marxist think tank) takes a good hard look at inequalities - Because classical capitalist redistributions redistribution channels... just doesn't work anymore - eaten by inflation - low wage redistribution - job automation www.mckinsey.com/featured-ins...

Introducing Anthropic Interviewer What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI

Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI
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C'était Paris en 1970 Photographies numérisées du fonds C'était Paris en 1970

😍 paris1970.jeantho.eu/index.html?u...

Microsoft Is the House That Excel Built The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools.

This is an Excel world and we're living in it. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Smart Contracts... are not so smart red.anthropic.com red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-c...

Take Weird Ideas Seriously Weird Ideas as Individual Alpha and Societal Necessity

"Take Weird Ideas Seriously"
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The rise of 'vibe working' From vibe coding to vibe checks, welcome to the white-collar vibening .

Welcome to the vibening, where a lot of white-collar work is being portrayed as just vibes. www.businessinsider.com/rise-of-vibe...

The agentic commerce opportunity: How AI agents are ushering in a new era for consumers and merchants www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

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Hong Kong: How the Mecca of Chinese capitalism is attracting top Western scientists The Beijing-controlled megacity is courting international researchers with astronomical salaries and cutting-edge equipment. After its success story with trade and capital flows, it now wants to do…

This is what peak golden age looks like : Hong Kong: How the Mecca of Chinese capitalism is attracting top Western scientists english.elpais.com/science-tech...

#cloudflare down preventing us from logging into ChatGPT, Claude and the likes

Back to using our own embedded AGI reasoning model featuring deep thinking abilities aka ... brains !

Exclusive: Altman And Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra Episteme and Louis Andre would like to fix science

Dell labs and the likes of Xeroc Parc sound romantic and exciting for us nerds. Curious to see how Sama-backed Episteme capital-intense model performs compared to the likes of Y combinator and a16z Speedrun. www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-...

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...

Les liens nauséabonds de Weleda avec le médecin SS de Dachau Selon une enquête de l’historienne Anne Sudrow, l’entreprise de cosmétiques naturels centenaire n’a pas tout dit de sa collaboration avec le régime nazi. Elle a...

Récit dingue de collaboration entre les labos de beauté-soins Weleda et les médecins SS du camp de Dachau qui disposait de son propre "jardin botanique bio" pour leurs experimentations médicales. ça va intéresser @gragratraina.bsky.social www.courrierinternational.com/article/hist...

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Ancient Rock Art in the Plains of India (Published 2019)

😍 Ancient Rock Art in the Plains of India www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/s...

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