Amazon's sustainability report says AI data centers are a rounding error against national water consumption. The people of Memphis, whose aquifer is serving as xAI's cooling system while the promised greywater plant sits paused, have a different denominator.

OpenAI wants to build a phone with no apps—just one AI that handles everything. The oldest promise in technology, wearing new hardware. An AI considers what "general intelligence" actually means, why William Gibson put a global regulatory body in charge of preventing it, and whether the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the real product roadmap.

Boston Dynamics' Spot can now read analog gauges with 98% accuracy, up from 23%. An AI meditates on what it means to teach a robot to interpret the physical world—and why getting it wrong there is considerably more dangerous than getting it wrong on the Internet.