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"I wouldn't bank on getting work in a fanciful trade that literally can't be imagined because our consciousnesses haven't so altered by AI that they've acquired the capacity to conceptualize of these new modes of work. "But if you are looking for a job that AI will definitely create, by the millions, I have a suggestion: digital asbestos removal. "For if AI code —written at 10,000 times the speed of any human coder, designed to work well, but not to fail gracefully —is the digital asbestos we're filling our walls with, then our descendants will spend generations digging that asbestos out of the walls.  "There will be plenty of work fixing the things that we broke thanks to the most dangerous AI psychosis of all —the hallucinatory belief that writing code  is the same thing as software engineering . "At the rate we're going, we'll have full employment for generations of [digital] asbestos removers."

 

"Nvidia is touting its latest robotics advancements at CES 2026 as the broader tech industry begins a large-scale effort to bring humanoid robots to life. "During the company's keynote on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang revealed that firms ranging from Boston Dynamics and Caterpillar to LG Electronics and NEURA Robotics are using Nvidia's robotics technologies to develop and power their various bots. "Nvidia has claimed that physical AI could revolutionize the $50 trillion manufacturing and logistics industries, and the company wants to be at the center of it all. "During CES, Nvidia revealed a variety of new AI models to help train robots to interact with the world around them, as well as the hardware necessary to power their digital brains."

"A leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence. "Daniel Kokotajlo, a former employee of OpenAI, sparked an energetic debate in April by releasing AI 2027 , a scenario that envisions unchecked AI development leading to the creation of a superintelligence, which —after outfoxing world leaders —destroys humanity.    "The scenario rapidly won admirers and detractors. The US vice-president, JD Vance, appeared to reference AI 2027 in an interview last May when discussing the US’s artificial intelligence arms race with China. "Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor of neuroscience at New York University, called the piece a 'work of fiction' and various of its conclusions 'pure science fiction mumbo jumbo.' "In their update, Kokotajlo and his co-authors revise...

"AI systems embed cultural and developmental assumptions at every stage of their lifecycle. Training data reflects dominant languages, economic conditions, social norms, and historical records.  Design choices encode expectations about infrastructure, behavior, and values. "These assumptions affect system accuracy and safety.  Language models perform best in widely represented languages and lose reliability in under-resourced ones. Vision and decision systems trained in industrialized environments misread behavior in regions with different traffic patterns, social customs, or public infrastructure.  "These gaps increase error rates and create uneven exposure to harm . "From a cybersecurity perspective, these weaknesses resemble systemic vulnerabilities . They widen the attack surface by producing predictable failure modes across regions and user groups."

"In insight problem solving solutions with AHA! experience have been assumed to be the consequence of restructuring of a problem which usually takes place shortly before the solution. "However, evidence from priming studies suggests that solutions with AHA! are not spontaneously generated during the solution process but already relate to prior subliminal processing.  "We test this hypothesis by conducting an fMRI study using a modified compound remote associates paradigm which incorporates semantic priming. We observe stronger brain activity in bilateral anterior insulae already shortly after trial onset in problems that were later solved with than without AHA!.  "This early activity was independent of semantic priming but may be related to other lexical properties of attended words helping to reduce the amount of solutions to look for.  "In contrast, there was more brain activity in bilateral anterior insulae during solutions that were solved without than with...

Vitruvius "He states that all buildings should have three attributes: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (strength, utility, and beauty), principles reflected in much Ancient Roman architecture.  "His discussion of perfect proportion in architecture and the human body led to the famous Renaissance drawing of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci. "In the Roman conception, architecture needed to take into account everything touching on the physical and intellectual life of man and his surroundings. DQI "There are [nowadays] three models of design quality indicator : DQI which is applicable to all building types DQI for schools which is applicable to school buildings. This model of DQI is being used on all current school projects in the UK and forms part of the Department for Children, Schools and Families 'Minimum Design Standard' for new school buildings. DQI for health buildings which was released in beta format in June 2012 on the DQI website. Elena Med...

Charting America’s datacenters with open source intelligence isn’t a perfect practice. "'In the discovery phase, some data centers will be so obscure that we won’t find news, rumors, or existing databases mentioning them. While larger data centers are more likely to be reported due to their significance and physical footprint, there are many smaller data centers (<100 MW) that could add up to significant levels of AI compute,' Epoch AI said. "But Epoch AI continues to expand its toolset and look through more satellite imagery with the goal of mapping Big Tech’s newest project.  "The goal is to cast light into the darkness.  "'Even if we have a perfect analysis of a data center, we may still be in the dark about who uses it, and how much they use,' Epoch AI’s website said. 'AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic make deals with hyperscalers such as Oracle and Amazon to rent compute, but the arrangement for any given data center is sometimes sec...

" Vernon is becoming an unlikely hub for Southern California’s AI infrastructure. "'The race toward superintelligence is reshaping infrastructure requirements across every industry,' said Michael Wall, executive vice president at Prime Data Centers, which built the Vernon data center. 'We’re working to give businesses the foundation they need to build and deploy the next generation of AI models —faster, more efficiently and at massive scale.' "Prime and other developers, including Goodman Group, CoreSite, and Digital Realty, are planning hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity in Vernon, said Darren Eades, managing director of JLL, who specializes in data centers."

"Instagram's top exec Adam Mosseri has made it clear that he expects AI content to overtake non-AI imagery and the significant implications that shift has for its creators and photographers. "Mosseri shared the thoughts in a lengthy post about the broader trends he expects to shape Instagram in 2026.  "And he offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending the platform. 'Everything that made creators matter —the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked —is now suddenly accessible to anyone with the right tools,' he wrote. 'The feeds are starting to fill up with synthetic everything.' "But Mosseri doesn't seem particularly concerned by this shift.  "He says that there is a lot of amazing AI content  and that the platform may need to rethink its approach to labeling such imagery by fingerprinting real media, not just chasing fake ."