Liam Denning

Shawn Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers, is warning his members that artificial intelligence and robots represent a threat on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which pushed jobs across borders. “We are in a fight for humanity,” he declared at the union’s recent convention. The UAW was angered this year when General Motors Co. idled workers and then installed robots at an assembly plant in Detroit.

While I wouldn’t necessarily rely on Truth Social for facts, it occasionally serves as a barometer of President Donald Trump’s anxieties. On Monday, the needle pointed to pump prices:

Elon Musk’s empire spans energy, cars, rockets, robots and more besides. The common thread is his command of attention: attracting it, shaping it and monetizing it. The world’s wealthiest person has been busy in this regard of late, hosting two earnings calls, including this week’s inaugural one for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX. He also sat for a long interview with The Economist, offering visions of artificial intelligence and humanity’s future, laced with the controversy and

Muskova ekonomika pozornosti sa prepadá do recesie Investori dnes za sľuby požadujú vyššiu rizikovú prirážku.

Artificial intelligence is having a riotous summer. Models developed by the likes of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI have escaped testing sandboxes and in some cases then hacked into other systems. The politics of AI are similarly in revolt, jumping from debates about data centers to a widening backlash against the technology itself and its masters. The risk of over-the-top regulation is now tangible, with implications for Big Tech and the energy providers feeding it.

Artificial intelligence is having a riotous summer. Models developed by the likes of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI have escaped testing sandboxes and in some cases then hacked into other systems.

As a forest of pitchforks approaches America’s data centers, Big Tech can turn to a time-tested strategy: Hiding. As in, behind the meter. That phrase refers to onsite power generation that can offer backup for data centers or, at the extreme, let them bypass the electricity grid completely.

The US and Canada appear poised to clinch a deal on an industry central to the North American free-trade battle: autos. As ever with President Donald Trump’s trade war, a fog of uncertainty and potential U-turns persists. In this case, the details that have emerged suggest the deal would represent a good first step for Detroit, but only that. Don’t tell the president, but foreign automakers look like more immediate beneficiaries.

Hyperscalers like Amazon plan to build their own power plants in the US so that people don't complain of data centres driving up electricity bills. But grid use can also lower household bills on economies of scale. Developers need to get that message out.