Christopher Mims

Airplanes, elevators and restaurants all have regulations to ensure their safe operation. Many experts argue for similar conventional measures for AI.

The companies racing to build AI factories are rethinking their plans in order to win back the trust of Americans.

The idea of an AI personal assistant might seem far-fetched, but the search giant’s new products make it much more accessible for non-nerds.

Engineers and investors are piling into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding.

Sodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past.

While other tech giants spend on AI data centers, Big Blue aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.

Intelligence “too cheap to meter” could threaten the leading AI labs, while creating opportunity for their competitors.

The plan involves school-bus-size satellites and a whole lot of salt, and it could provide an ionic ‘air bag’ for the Earth.

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.

Plus, how chatbots can amplify delusional thinking, inside Sam Altman’s personal investments and inflationary risk from data centers.