“AI – Artificial Intelligence”

Missouri senator Josh Hawley warned today that AI will create a caste system in America.

In one of his most forceful attacks yet on Silicon Valley, the Republican argued that unchecked advances in AI technology would hand unprecedented power to a small elite while hollowing out America’s working class.

In a new frontier for warfare, Ukraine is using technology to allow groups of drones to communicate and make decisions independent of their operator

On a recent evening, a trio of Ukrainian drones flew under the cover of darkness to a Russian position and decided among themselves exactly when to strike.

The assault was an example of how Ukraine is using artificial intelligence to allow groups of drones to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions, an innovative technology that heralds the future of battle.

Military experts say the so-called swarm technology represents the next frontier for drone warfare because of its potential to allow tens or even thousands of drones—or swarms—to be deployed at once to overwhelm the defenses of a target, be that a city or an individual military asset.

Soon the local police force will have such critters. Just in case.

Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial electronic data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. The information was key for a wrongful death case the survivor and the victim’s family were building against Tesla, but the company said it didn’t have the data.

Then a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at a South Florida Starbucks. Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along.

To build the energy systems needed to fuel growth, the U.S. will need to weigh choices and tradeoffs.

The adage “knowledge is power” could be recast: knowledge consumes power. Throughout history, the advance of knowledge has led to the invention of new products and services. These innovations inevitably increase energy consumption. With the invention of useful artificial intelligence (AI), we have another example of that truth.

AI-focused data centers, more than any other single factor, are driving growth in regional and national electricity demands at a rate not seen in a half-century. The boom has caused the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to more than triple its formerly tepid forecast for growth in U.S. power demand by 2030. The lower end of its growth estimate would be equivalent to adding about five times New York City’s peak power usage.

Artificial intelligence is profoundly limiting some young Americans’ employment prospects, new research shows.

Young workers are getting hit in fields where generative-AI tools such as ChatGPT can most easily automate tasks done by humans, such as software development, according to a paper released Tuesday by three Stanford University economists. They crunched anonymized data on millions of employees at tens of thousands of firms, including detailed information on workers’ ages and jobs, making this one of clearest indicators yet of AI’s disruptive impact.

“There’s a clear, evident change when you specifically look at young workers who are highly exposed to AI,” said Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who conducted the research with Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen.

Google’s YouTube has been secretly using AI to “enhance” users’ videos without their knowledge or consent, leading to a growing sense of unease among content creators.

A silent recession has arrived for recent college graduates. Over the past two years, unemployment among 22‑to-27‑year‑olds with bachelor’s degrees has climbed to levels seen during economic downturns. A college diploma used to be an ironclad job guarantee. Today it seems more like a lottery ticket with shrinking odds.

This plunge is just the beginning. As generative artificial intelligence improves, entry-level and service sector jobs may increasingly disappear, threatening not just workers but also the cities where they live. Recent research by the Brookings Institution shows how San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., New York and Washington could soon face significant job disruption, thanks to the rise of A.I. In San Jose, a striking 43 percent of workers could see A.I. transform half or more of their tasks.

In 1985, Kenneth T. Jackson published Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, a landmark of American urban history and winner of the Bancroft Prize. Jackson got some particulars wrong, like his assumption that cheap oil was running out, and that America would consequently re-densify. But his central thesis still resonates: transportation technology is the primary determining factor in the physical form of human settlement.

Manasi Mishra, a 21-year-old with a degree in computer science (CS) from Purdue University, shared in a TikTok video that despite her intelligence and hard work, she struggled to find a job for nearly a year. The only company that called her back for an interview during this time was Chipotle, and she did not get the job. It was only after her video went viral that Mishra finally secured a job offer last month.

AI is making ever more jobs obsolete. The solution from Silicon Valley? A universal paycheck, no work required.

Technology titans including Elon Musk and Sam Altman see a future flush with wealth generated by artificial intelligence. Some tech heavyweights have endorsed no-strings cash distributions for a decade, so-called universal basic income, or UBI.

While many think of UBI as a taxpayer-funded system, Silicon Valley’s elite envision AI doing humans’ work, from mundane factory jobs to highly skilled white-collar roles, and funding payouts through cost savings and more revenue. Tech leaders say that revenue can be shared under a massive wealth-redistribution system.

Suddenly, an idea once seen as a socialist policy that would reward idleness is one of the AI boom’s hottest acronyms.

A new national survey suggests that Canadians anticipate significant changes in technology, the economy, and global politics over the next five years — though the poll shows there is a distinct generational gap as opinions vary widely by age and political affiliation.

The study, conducted by Abacus Data, which polled 1,686 Canadians from Jul. 31 to Aug.7, 2025, found that there was skepticism about rapid adoption of driverless automobiles and pilotless planes.