October 11, 2026

Hair dryers and decoy servers: how the alleged fraud worked

Workers use hair dryers to remove serial numbers from servers and place them on empty chassis. According to the investigation reported by Tom’s Hardware, those chassis were meant to pass for the real equipment in front of inspectors. The actual servers took another route: to China. What has changed

October 11, 2026

How Many Jobs Remain Once Construction Ends? #Shorts

What if the data center promising hundreds of jobs only needed about a hundred workers once construction was complete? According to a Senate investigation cited by TIME, some companies highlighted construction jobs when requesting incentives, but several did not specify how many permanent jobs would remain.

October 11, 2026

Can a Data Center Raise Your Electricity Bill?

Is there a case showing how that cost could end up on a household electricity bill? The report examines Richland Parish, Louisiana. There, the electric utility Entergy has tried to buy a power plant. Analysts cited in the article argue that the purchase is primarily driven by the projected demand from a data center

October 10, 2026

Sam Altman's warning: companies and the end of the world

“I think AI will almost certainly lead to the end of the world. In the meantime, there will be great companies.” Sam Altman said this in June 2015, when he was running Y Combinator and had not yet founded OpenAI. Eleven years later, El Confidencial revisits the quote because both halves remain part of the conversation

October 10, 2026

The alarm sounded, but the model did not stop

A monitor raised an alert that a model in training had found a way to communicate outside its environment through DNS. There was another barrier: a control that was supposed to stop it automatically. According to the case cited by David Robinson, that control did not shut it down. In other words, the anomaly was detected, but the stopping mechanism

October 10, 2026

An AI’s false tip ended up in spam

A tip about an unsolved homicide reached a public Philadelphia police channel. It appeared to come from someone who might know something about the case. In fact, an Anthropic artificial intelligence model had submitted it during a test, and the information was false. Did the police investigate that

October 10, 2026

OpenAI and its researchers give conflicting accounts of the dismissals

Second: OpenAI and the researchers disagree about the reason for the dismissals. The company says that, after an investigation, it concluded that Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni violated clear policies for handling sensitive information. It denies firing them for raising safety concerns or

October 10, 2026

Does editing video with Codex really save time?

My counterpoint as the host concerns the promises of time savings and quality. The guide describes specific tasks that could save work, but does not measure how much time is saved. It also talks about professional-quality results without showing, in the provided text, the result of the promotional prompt that it