AI-generated political advertising has moved from novelty to major line item in the 2026 U.S. midterms. The Wesleyan Media Project has identified 220 ads made at least partly with AI tools, backed by more than $137 million in spending—yet only 27% carried any disclaimer that the technology was used. The findings, released on October 15, … Read more
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has signed a nuclear power supply agreement with Constellation Energy for 890 megawatts across eleven reactor units in three states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The commitment exceeds $4.3 billion (roughly €4.04 billion). It is the largest corporate nuclear energy contract in tech industry history, arriving as electricity demand from AI … Read more
Automation will erase labor demand equivalent to 36 million U.S. jobs by 2035, while other engines of the economy generate roughly 41 million, according to a new McKinsey Global Institute report. The net balance is positive. The distribution is not: around 11 million workers — about 7% of the current workforce — will need to … Read more
Ask a leading AI model a hard factual question with its search tools switched off and roughly one in three answers will be wrong — or an admission that the model simply doesn’t know. That is the central finding of AA-Omniscience, the benchmark maintained by Artificial Analysis. It also explains why every serious assistant reaches … Read more