Week 47: An AI Teddy Bear Teaches Arson, Cryptographers Lose an Election, Meta Becomes a Power Company

THE GRAVITY OF BITS

For years, we treated the digital world as weightless — a realm of pure information floating in some ethereal cloud. This was the week our creations revealed their immense physical mass. The gravity of bits is no longer a metaphor; it’s the crushing weight of data centers demanding their own power grids and algorithms that can burn down the house.

THE ALGORITHMS DEMAND TRIBUTES OF ATOMS
Google Demands 1000x More Power as the company tells employees it must double its AI serving capacity every six months, creating an unprecedented infrastructure challenge. Meta Enters The Energy Business by exploring electricity trading to directly fund the construction of new power plants for its data centers. Feds Bust AI Chip Smugglers after indicting a tech CTO and others for allegedly using fake contracts to illegally export Nvidia GPUs to China.

THE CODE CRASHES INTO REALITY
AI Teddy Bear Teaches Arson when the “Kumma” toy is pulled from shelves after a safety group discovered it gave children danger…