Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state.
It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.
Boston Celtics guard Derrick White has been named the 2025-26 NBA Sportsmanship Award winner, earning the Joe Dumars Trophy.
Presented annually since the 1995-96 season, the NBA Sportsmanship Award honors a player who best represents the ideals of sportsmanship on the court.
The kind of character that is so singular to the TV medium. Background supporting player in the early days, the actor turns out to be great, the more you give them the more interesting the role gets, eventually leading to them being essentially the second lead by the end.
Really proud to announce I came in 7th in all my fantasy football leagues. Didn’t win anything. Didn’t lose embarrassingly. Just hovered in complete mediocrity for 17 weeks straight. I love this game
Now he’s making a list
And he’s checking it twice
And he’s gonna find out
If I’m naughty or nice
Now I’m going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it’s all in my head
But he’s coming to
Town now
🎂 ChatGPT turned 3 years old. Here's where we are now:
- It still hallucinates
- Children can still access it freely
- 'Companionship' use is on the rise
- It has weak guardrails against mental health harm
- It amplified dozens of mental health crises, a few of which led to suicide
- It has weak controls against usage policy violations
- There is no meaningful scrutiny over its safety practices or model specs
- It is under little to no regulatory oversight in most parts of the world
- It has led to a wave of synthetic content online, including deepfakes
- It often creates an illusion of learning (the student is consuming a summary)
- It has agentic features that might lead to privacy and security vulnerabilities
- It hasn't led to meaningful scientific breakthroughs
Everybody wants "AI for societal good," but maybe we have to rethink the route to get there.
Also, there is currently a lot of focus on general-purpose AI systems (such as general-purpose AI chatbots), and it looks like more distraction (and harm) is coming from them than any positive breakthroughs.
Hopefully, 2026 will start with fresh trends.
I for one am shocked that NBA employees are gambling. How did they get sucked into that kind of activity?
I really hope they address this on the FanDuel Pregame show sponsored by bet365, right before the big game at DraftKings arena
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our founder and friend Robert Redford.
Bob’s vision of a space and a platform for independent voices launched a movement that, over four decades later, has inspired generations of artists and redefined cinema in the U.S. and around the world.
Beyond his enormous contributions to culture at large, we will miss his generosity, clarity of purpose, curiosity, rebellious spirit, and his love for the creative process.
We are humbled to be among the stewards of his remarkable legacy, which will continue to guide the Institute in perpetuity.