Elon Musk just identified the next crisis in AI. It’s not a shortage. It’s an unusable surplus.
Musk: “By the end of this year, chip production will outpace the ability to turn chips on.”
For three years the world was starved for silicon. Every lab, every government, every company racing to secure the chips that determine who wins the AI era.
That bottleneck is ending. A new one is replacing it.
Musk: “The chips are going to be piling up and not be able to be turned on.”
Billions of dollars of the most advanced AI hardware ever built. Sitting dark. Not because the chips don’t work.
Because there isn’t enough electricity to run them.
You can’t print a power plant the way you print a chip.
The fabrication plants scaled. The grid didn’t. And now the most valuable hardware in history is about to hit a wall that no amount of capital can instantly solve.
Compute is about to become abundant. Electricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth.
Three years obsessing over silicon yields. Physics doesn’t care about your chip architecture if your data center can’t pull enough megawatts.
The war isn’t about who can manufacture the most silicon anymore.
It’s about who has the raw power to plug it in.
Whoever solves energy first doesn’t just win. They own the infrastructure everyone else needs to compete.
The losers stack useless chips in warehouses waiting for power that never arrives.
We built a trillion dollar engine and forgot the fuel.
That’s the AI race right now.
Dear Nigerians , Zimbabweans, Malawians and other illegal Foreigners in South Africa together with @HomeAffairsSA , @SAHRCommission ,@GwedeMantashe1
These are South African youths who are submitting their CV’s to join SANDF, we have been advocating for them to be put first, it is their fundamental right to work. They are not Lazy🇿🇦
THIS IS WHAT THEY NEVER WANTED YOU TO SEE
For the first time in history, we are authorized to share the complete MedBed treatment process.
Step 1: The patient enters the crystalline chamber.
Step 2: A full-body quantum scan is performed in 3.2 seconds.
Step 3: The AI identifies every disease, injury, and genetic anomaly.
Step 4: Targeted frequency healing begins. Duration: 15-30 minutes.
Step 5: The patient exits. Fully healed. Zero recovery time.
This is not science fiction. This is science fact.
And it has been hidden from you for over 50 years.
Forward this to everyone. The world deserves to know.
AI just started tracking workers.
And your barista isn’t just making coffee.
They’re generating data.
A tool called NeuroSpot by Sparknets overlays live metrics on CCTV, tracking cups served, shift times, even how long customers sit.
Owners call it efficiency.
Critics call it dystopian.
Is this the future of productivity, or is this the beginning of the end?
🦔 A creator is running 150 TikTok accounts with just three interns, all posting AI-generated videos. The setup uses racks of phones running automated content generation and posting. One account alone showed a $7,000 payout request.
My Take
Engagement farms aren't new. They've been a huge industry for over a decade, particularly for social manipulation and content theft. What's changed is the economics. Previously you needed people to steal and repost content, or create something. Now three interns can manage 150 accounts because the content generates itself.
This is where the AI video tools we keep covering end up. Not just deepfakes of celebrities or one-off viral clips, but industrialized slop production running 24/7. The platforms pay out based on engagement, and the algorithms don't distinguish between content a person spent hours making and content a script churned out in seconds. So the incentives push toward volume over quality, flooding feeds with generated noise. The creators making actual content are now competing against operations that can produce thousands of videos per day at near-zero marginal cost. I don't know how that competition ends well for them.
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A separatist organisation identifying itself as the “Boervolk of the Orange Freestate” has placed a formal notice in the South African Government Gazette declaring the secession of the “Republic of the Orange Freestate.”
They are also laying claim to vast swathes of South African territory, including the entirety of KwaZulu-Natal.
The notice, published on Friday, 30 January 2026, in Gazette No. 54036, asserts that the group is “taking back” land it claims is currently in the “illegal possession” of the South African government due to historical “colonial subjugation” by Britain.
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Extractions from @ThePoint2Day
JUST IN:
Two suspects have been shot dead after a high-speed chase & shootout with Gauteng police & private security in Parys, Free State.
The suspects were dressed in SAPS uniform. Firearms & blue lights also recovered.
The men are responsible for scores of hijackings and they posed as police officers.
#CrimeWatch