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The US Is Building Twice as Much Gas as China. AI Did That.
New analysis from Global Energy Monitor finds the US is now building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China, with roughly half of the pipeline tied to AI datacenters. The buildout carries a $647 billion price tag, a 20% emissions risk, and one big open question: whether any of it gets built.
The WSJ Published a Billionaire’s AI-Written Op-Ed. Nobody Told You.
When Stanley Druckenmiller's Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent turned out to be AI-written, the paper defended it — and exposed a media that has no working disclosure norm for machine-assisted opinion.
Coding Expertise Is Collapsing — and AI Is Why
The top story on Hacker News this week argues that AI coding tools are eroding the very expertise they require — and the studies back it up: novices who lean on AI learn less, 80% of developers report dependence, and trust in AI accuracy is falling. The collapse of coding expertise isn't about the technology; it's about the people we're training to never become senior.
OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Just Rewrote Inference Economics
OpenAI published the first benchmarks for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom — up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency than a current Nvidia Blackwell system. Here's what the numbers mean for token prices, agents, and Nvidia's moat.
AI-Generated Images Are Killing Blog Reading — Including Ours
AI-generated blog headers may win clicks but cost reader trust. A self-aware look at why TheAIprism uses them anyway — and what it costs us.
Sycophantic AI and Interpersonal Advice: What a 2025 Study Actually Measured
An assistant that agrees with you can feel helpful while failing to challenge a questionable assumption. Research on AI sycophancy examines that tension, but its findings need to be described at the level the study actually measured.
One-to-One Learning at Scale: Andrew Ng’s Plan to Rebuild Education with AI
Coursera just put $100 million into LearnVector, Andrew Ng's new AI company, valuing a product-less startup at $300 million on the promise of one-to-one AI tutoring. We break down how the economics of personalized education finally work, what the evidence actually shows, and the open questions nobody has answered.
What Is Actually Happening to Jobs? Separating AI Hype from Reality
Aggregate employment is holding up, but the composition of the job market is shifting fast: entry-level roles are getting squeezed, creative output jobs are shrinking, and AI-adjacent roles are booming. We break down the real data on which jobs grow, shrink, and transform.
Terence Tao and the Mathematics of AI: What a Genius Sees That We Don’t
Terence Tao has spent four years documenting how AI is changing mathematical research — from GPT-4's first useful day to a July 2026 AI-found counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture. Here is what the world's greatest living mathematician sees about AI-assisted discovery, the benchmark numbers behind it, and where machine reasoning still hits its limits.
The AI Lobbying Explosion: Record Spending Is Reshaping Washington
AI companies spent record sums on Washington lobbying in 2026 - OpenAI at $2.22M and Anthropic at $3.53M in H1 alone. Here's what the money buys, who's being left out, and what you can do about it.
