Posts by Jordi

Automated license plate readers are moving from crime-fighting tool to political liability as cities confront data-sharing, immigration-enforcement and local-control risks.

A Penn Annenberg survey showing broad public concern about AI regulation is a warning that the political fight over artificial intelligence is moving faster than Washington wants to admit.

Reno became Nevada’s first local government to pause new data-center applications, turning AI infrastructure into a local-cost political fight over power, water, land, and who pays for the buildout.

AP reports U.S. farmers are adopting lasers, AI and robots as the agricultural workforce shrinks. The real story is not novelty; it is a labor model breaking into a new platform dependency.

UK financial regulators are warning that frontier AI can already outperform skilled cyber practitioners on speed, scale and cost. That turns AI adoption into a governance test, not just a productivity story.

New research says data centers now consume about 6% of electricity in both the U.S. and U.K., turning AI infrastructure into a local power-bill fight.

Meta and Google are funding trusted children’s brands as critics warn the partnerships soften scrutiny of platforms built to capture young users’ attention.

Microsoft’s reported hunt for AI startup deals shows that the next phase of the AI boom is about leverage, scarce talent, and bargaining power — not just better chatbots.

Fervo Energy’s $10 billion IPO valuation is not just a clean-energy market story. It is another sign that AI is turning electricity into the real bottleneck of the platform economy.