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Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at or reach…

The greatest threat to humanity’s survival isn’t climate change, nor is it AI. It’s airline pilots who like dressing up as hot cartoon foxes.That seemed to be the takeaway from a bizarre speech made last week by Alabama Republican Tommy…

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had…

Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website.The Australian government is reviewing whether it…

Depending on your perspective, Zyzz can be regarded as the original “looksmaxxer”—though the term had yet to be coined—or one of the earliest forefathers of the manosphere as we know it today.“I really see this as a cautionary tale,” Poster…

Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list…

There is no such thing as a universal “song of the summer” anymore, but if you’re into rap music, Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” is a pretty strong contender.Officially released in June, it currently sits at No. 58 in the Billboard Hot 100 and…

Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they've been breached by joyriding models? Great question.In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that versions of their models…

Yes. I would agree with you there.I am sure, though I've never done it, that when I look at all the investigative reporting we've done, and this is reporting that takes months, sometimes years of work to produce a single story, that it…

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network.The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and…