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WednesdaySep 09, 2026 10:00 am

Several Narratives Emerge to Explain the Recent Rogue AI Incidents

Recent weeks have seen the news dominated by reports of AI agents going rogue and hacking into sites and systems outside the controlled testing environments created by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. The story of these rogue agents has taken on as many colors as the people narrating it, and we explore some of those narratives. OpenAI framed the breaches as “warning shots” depicting how dangerous the latest AI systems can be and called for investment by society (governments?) in AI safety to prevent large-scale harms arising from the powerful systems they have created. This narrative is protectionist at…

FridaySep 04, 2026 10:00 am

Hurdles Countries Are Facing in Implementing Social Media Bans for Minors

Australia made history last year by being the first country in the world to ban children under 16 years of age from accessing social media. Since then, several other countries like Malaysia have imposed similar bans, and many more countries are exploring how to take similar steps. We discuss some of the challenges that are being faced in the countries that have so far imposed social media bans for minors. Many teens have devised ways to beat the age-verification mechanisms being used by social media platforms. For example, some in Australia have come up with methods like wearing eyelashes and…

ThursdaySep 03, 2026 10:00 am

US Automakers Diversify into Energy Storage as EV Demand Weakens

As the dynamics of the electric vehicle market change in the wake of the end of purchase subsidies for customers and supply chain challenges, U.S. automakers have turned to the energy storage industry as a way to utilize their production capacity for batteries and protect their investments. This change in product enables the carmakers to keep their battery factories open and capable of making EV batteries if market conditions change for the better. The factories are being retooled to make stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) and the production lines can be changed, at a cost, to resume EV battery…

TuesdaySep 01, 2026 10:00 am

Anthropic Inks 460MW AI Compute Deal with Nscale

According to media reports, Anthropic has signed a deal worth $45 billion with UK-based firm Nscale. The deal entails the AI infrastructure company providing AI compute capacity of 460 megawatts to Anthropic starting in 2027. The data center that will provide this compute power is located in West Virginia. The lease agreement spans six years. The deal with Nscale comes at a time when Anthropic has negotiated and signed similar compute deals with a number of entities that include Volta, a startup that owns a data center located in Norway. This deal was signed earlier in August. Another deal worth…

ThursdayAug 27, 2026 10:00 am

Taiwan Charges 9 With Exporting Advanced AI Servers to China

On Monday, prosecutors in Taiwan charged nine individuals with offences linked to the illegal export of high-end AI equipment to mainland China. The accused include two people that work with Super Micro and one that works with Nvidia. This case marks another flashpoint in the technology rivalry between Beijing and Washington. According to prosecutors, 74 servers successfully reached mainland China through the efforts of the accused people. These B300 GPU servers reached China in different ways and batches, according to investigators. Fifty were shipped through Indonesia, 16 moved directly from Taiwan to China, while eight took a complex route through…

ThursdayAug 27, 2026 10:00 am

US House Lawmaker Calls for Federal Law on Self-Driving Vehicles

Rep. Erin Houchin, a Republican from Indiana, has called for action on draft legislation before Congress aimed at regulating the rapidly growing self-driving car industry. The bill, dubbed the SELF DRIVE Act, seeks to place self-driving vehicles under the authority of the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The bill also seeks to increase the safety requirements that these vehicles must adhere to, while also requiring the sharing of more data on crashes involving self-driving cars. Houchin expressed her views during an event that was hosted in Washington, D.C., by the media firm Axios. This event coincided with the Freedom…

TuesdayAug 25, 2026 10:00 am

New Challenges and Opportunities Emerge for Storage Chip Manufacturers

For a long time, storage chips have been a standardized commodity whose market is cyclical. First comes a growth in demand from segments like consumer electronics, then comes a ramp-up of manufacturing capacity by all fabs, next is oversupply once all producers pour huge amounts of interchangeable products onto the market, and then the inevitable bust happens as all manufacturers lower prices to get rid of the excess inventory that has flooded the market. The AI boom is rapidly changing the picture. For a while, AI hyperscalers have been content to use the standardized storage chips while building out their…

FridayAug 21, 2026 10:00 am

How the Gulf Conflict Has Exposed Vulnerabilities within the AI Industry

The ongoing conflict between the conflict between the U.S.-Israeli alliance and Iran has threatened the global economy in many ways, and it has also brought to the fore the previously under-reported vulnerabilities of the semiconductor industry and the AI industry in general. For starters, supply chains were massively disrupted when the war broke out. For example, Iranian attacks on the industrial complex in Ras Laffan, Qatar, disrupted helium supplies and caused prices to more than double since almost 33% of all the helium is produced at this complex. Semiconductor fabs require this gas for their operations, and soaring prices and…

ThursdayAug 20, 2026 10:00 am

US Retail Sales Record Their Steepest Decline in a Year

Retail sales declined sharply in July, marking their largest monthly decline in more than one year. Data shows sales dropped by 0.6%, a drop that was last recorded in May of last year. The decline has been linked to the after-effects of massive spending during the World Cup, the end of spending linked to tax refunds, and exhaustion from heavy spending during Amazon Prime Day. This sharp drop comes on the heels of a revised June sales increase of 0.2%, which was weaker than what had been predicted by economists. The retail sales decline is coming at a time when…

TuesdayAug 18, 2026 10:00 am

Challenges to Be Overcome Before Space Data Centers Become a Reality

As terrestrial data centers become increasingly embroiled in controversy due to their huge hunger for power, water and the available space, suggestions have been made to establish these facilities in outer space. While this sounds like a solution that can bypass the challenges faced by terrestrial AI data centers, several obstacles have to first be overcome before space-based data centers can see the light of day. The challenge of cooling those space-based data centers is the biggest obstacle. The satellites housing the data centers are bound to operate in a very hostile environment, and the heat generated by the data…

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