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What are data centers—and why are they suddenly being built everywhere? Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Joe Honan, CEO of Singularity Compute, to explain the data-center boom powering artificial intelligence. Honan breaks down what data centers actually do, why AI requires so much compute power, how much electricity and water these facilities use, and why communities across America are debating whether data centers are worth the cost. A House Science Committee probe is now examining foreign funding and potential influence in opposition to American AI and energy infrastructure, citing a report that found activist groups fighting U.S. data center development received more than $39 million from foreign donors. Honan argues this fight is about more than the environment—it’s about compute power, national security, and which country wins the AI race. We cover hyperscale data centers, edge computing, liquid cooling, power grids, water recycling, noise concerns, the Nashville Zoo controversy, construction jobs, skilled trades, foreign-funded opposition, China, national security, orbital data centers, and whether Americans should be optimistic or worried about AI.

What does this mean for the US?

We are at a tipping point between AI and humanity, and it’s not as simple as just pulling the plug. What is America’s responsibility here? What is humanity’s responsibility? And how do we keep this technology out of the hands of terrorists and foreign adversaries? Today’s conversation with Tristan Harris, AI expert and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, honestly terrified me—but it’s one we need to have before it’s too late. Watch Tristan’s new documentary now on Netflix here 👉https://www.netflix.com/us/title/82792555?s=i&trkid=13747225&shareType=Title&shareUuid=E892E939-1977-4D46-B464-A205111469AD&trg=cp&unifiedEntityIdEncoded=Video%3A82792555&vlang=en

Who Gets The Money In A Divorce? Her or The AI Husband

In the absence of reliable media, the American conversation has become a festival of idiots. What is the future of news and entertainment? Pre-order "Find Me Nowhere" here: https://dwplus.shop/FindMeNowhere

Titans on Tomorrow Ep. 3 with guest Andrew Ross Sorkin Presented by Shopify: https://shopify.com/titans Dario Amodei frantically warned the world we need to "Pace the Frontier" of AI. His biggest competitor Sam Altman immediately agreed. Both are now asking Washington to slow down the very technology making them rich. Is their cry of imminent danger to humanity real, or the most sophisticated moat-building to protect personal profits in corporate history? Ben Shapiro sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin–DealBook founder, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor, and author of Too Big to Fail, for a rare, direct read on the people actually running the AI race. Episode 3 of Titans on Tomorrow covers the real motives behind Amodei's essay, what the Hugging Face/OpenAI hacking incident proves about AI danger in the real world, why regulatory capture might be the biggest untold story of the moment, the China question nobody in Washington can answer, whether the AI boom is 2008 or 1929 all over again for Wall Street investors, and where Sorkin, who has JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Citadel's Ken Griffin on speed dial, thinks the smart money is moving. 1929 is available here: https://a.co/d/0daAoMdr

The 'kill all humans' business plan is nuts

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Have You Ever Sent An AI Message?

They're Making Robot Babies?!

Can You Marry An AI Chatbot?

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Smart appliances are dumb

Brazil's largest bank raid, where a gang used an elaborate tunnel to steal millions. Discover the chilling campaign of the Unabomber, whose mail bombs terrorized the nation, and explore the transformation of a Cold War bunker into a sophisticated dark-web hub. From ingenious smuggling tactics to high-stakes cybercrime, witness the lengths criminals go to evade detection and execute their plans.

Did the Bible predict artificial intelligence — and are we creating a digital god? In this episode of Theological, Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, dean of the Meaningful Life Center and author of Toward a Meaningful Life, for a conversation about AI, the soul, human agency, the Tower of Babel, Shabbat, jobs, spiritual purpose, and what makes human beings different from machines.

Titans on Tomorrow Ep. 2 with guest Steve Ballmer Presented by Cardiff: https://cardiff.co/ben The AI revolution is upon us and it’s changing the world fast. Steve Ballmer has seen this movie before—he took over Microsoft the same year most households got their first computer and stayed CEO through the mobile phone revolution that Microsoft famously lost to Apple and Google. He has A LOT to say about the investment, innovation, job displacement, dangers, and opportunities flying at us on the road to Superintelligence. In Episode 2 of Titans on Tomorrow, Ben Shapiro and Steve Ballmer talk about how companies are harnessing AI to explode productivity, how individual employees can make themselves invaluable by becoming AI natives, and the scary extremes we need to be working NOW to prevent as this technological revolution continues to unfold. Steve Ballmer was employee #30 at Microsoft, CEO from 2000-2014, and remains its largest individual shareholder and one of the richest men in the world. He is the owner of the L.A. Clippers and founder of USAFacts.

The economy your parents knew is already gone. The economy you know is going next.

AI data centers consume water, Michael Knowles consumes martinis 🍸

The ELIZA Effect

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