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  Congratulations, your tax dollars now subsidise AI’s electricity billOctober 2, 2026
  Here is a tidy piece of corporate socialism: privatise the profit, socialise the power bill. On 30 September the US… Read more: Congratulations, your tax dollars now subsidise AI’s electricity bill
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  Oracle borrowed $48bn for AI, then handed the bill to its own staffOctober 2, 2026
  Oracle did something most companies work hard to keep out of writing: it told the SEC, in a legally binding… Read more: Oracle borrowed $48bn for AI, then handed the bill to its own staff
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  Meta wants $199.99 a month for an AI that orders your DoorDashOctober 2, 2026
  According to documents reviewed by The Information, Meta is preparing a consumer AI agent codenamed Hatch that plugs into DoorDash,… Read more: Meta wants $199.99 a month for an AI that orders your DoorDash
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  AI’s chipmaker wants to build its own city in Texas, but we are definitely not in a bubbleOctober 2, 2026
  This is mad, though not quite for the reason the headline suggests. TSMC, the Taiwanese company that makes the chips… Read more: AI’s chipmaker wants to build its own city in Texas, but we are definitely not in a bubble
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  Scientists built a lie detector for video, and it runs on lightOctober 2, 2026
  Deepfakes have spent 2026 getting cheaper, slicker and lawsuit-grade dangerous, while the tools meant to catch them kept losing the… Read more: Scientists built a lie detector for video, and it runs on light
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  Another $3.5bn for AI, and why your pension should be nervousOctober 2, 2026
  Here is why this should bother you even if you have never heard of Kleiner Perkins. The firm has raised… Read more: Another $3.5bn for AI, and why your pension should be nervous