Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous. @mjgault.bsky.social has the story: www.404media.co/power-compan...

Artificial Power, AI Now’s 2025 Landscape Report, examines the fallout of the ‘AI boom,’ and how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies, and the tech oligarchs that run them, power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. Read it: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

On June 2 we’re excited to host two of the sharpest thinkers on tech power: Columbia law professor and former FTC Chair @linamkhan.bsky.social will join @karenhao.bsky.social for a conversation about AI & to celebrate the launch of Karen’s new book. Join the waitlist: forms.gle/U9WegXAb5zAw...

DOGE's new AI, built to scan federal workers' emails to see if they get to keep their jobs, is the latest in a number of AI schemes from Musk. We might scoff at how dumb these ideas are, but the truth is, they're not even supposed to work. They're built to eliminate accountability.

Grateful to have my work (and, scarily, life) profiled in a way that puts the issue I care most about--a more just world for low-income people--front and center. Please read + spread the message that use of AI undermines people's ability to have decent, stable housing, work, education, +health care

Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation 🔗 www.404media.co/public-libra...

New investigation by @apnews.com on the IDF's use of OpenAI models in Gaza. I spoke to them regarding this first confirmation of commercial foundation models being directly used in warfare and the implications of using highly error-prone AI for life or death determinations apnews.com/article/isra...

I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier. Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.

This is tomorrow at 5 ET. If you can make the time, please register and tune in. We have big plans.

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