OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Retail investors poured in $3 billion. Nobody is asking the obvious question: what exactly are they buying?
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Every conversation you have with ChatGPT uses water. Not metaphorically — actual water, pumped through the cooling systems of the data centres running the computation, evaporated into the atmosphere and…
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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 makes it illegal to discriminate against renters on the basis of race, colour, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability. For decades, proving…
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In 2021, a Facebook whistleblower named Frances Haugen leaked internal research documents showing that Facebook’s own researchers had concluded that Instagram was harmful to the mental health of teenage girls…
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The official US military position on autonomous lethal systems is that there will always be “meaningful human control” in any decision to use lethal force. This position is stated in…
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Hundreds of news articles published every day across major and mid-tier media outlets are written entirely or substantially by AI, without disclosure to readers. Not experimental articles. Not clearly labelled…
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Amazon warehouse workers are tracked from the moment they badge in to the moment they badge out. Their scan rates are monitored in real time. Their idle seconds are counted.…
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Across hospitals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, AI systems are currently being used to analyse patient scans, flag abnormalities, prioritise emergency cases, and in some instances…
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In January 2026, a Chinese AI lab called DeepSeek released a model that matched GPT-4 level performance at a fraction of the training cost. The American tech industry reacted with…
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Universities around the world are failing students based on AI detection software with documented false positive rates of between 10 and 30 percent. The students being flagged, in many cases,…
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