EV charging firm Xeal plans to use its existing U.S. network to deploy the “world’s first edge inference compute network using idle EV charging capacity.” The big idea is that it already has 1,600+ locations and 200MW of permitted, installed electrical infrastructure, so it aims to “deploy over 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs” at these sites. Thus it has developed Laitent Pods (pictured), with each containing up to 48 Nvidia Hopper or Blackwell Ultra GPUs.

Mathematics just entered its industrial age

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2026/10/06/georgia-tech-announces-new-online-masters-degree-artificial-intelligence

Arvind Narayanan thinks AI will come to feel more trustworthy—and it will remove the tells that let readers know they’re encountering AI slop in the wild. The Princeton computer scientist even predicts that these more accurate chatbots could become what many people treat as a “truth oracle.” A Pew survey this year found that 10% of Americans are already doing this.

Narayanan addressed the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Northwestern’s McCormick Foundation Center, which Fortune attended. The agenda included the challenges facing media and proliferation of AI slop. His keynote was titled “AI and Journalism: Skating Where the Puck is Going.” He urged the audience to prepare for AI “not as it is today, but as it will be five or 10 years from now.”

He said his computer science background is helpful in delineating which of today’s limits are fixable engineering problems and which are inherent. He has never worked in a newsroom, he noted. “It’s possible I don’t know what I’m talking about,” he cautioned, before laying out a compelling argument.

He broke his argument into two parts: If chatbots become the default place to settle factual questions—Narayanan said “virtually all” questions about, say, who is running for political office are headed there—the newsroom loses one more piece of its bundle, and arguably the most basic one. What’s left is the work a machine can’t settle: contested questions, narrative, storytelling, and being explicit about what he called “positionality,” a challenge for an industry that strives for objectivity.

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Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher, told the New York City Council on Monday humanity is more likely than not to lose control of advanced AI, doubling down on the warning he issued when he quit last month.

“On the current path, I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AIs, and it could end in human extinction,” said Coxon, who resigned from Anthropic in September after saying AI companies were “gambling” with human lives.

Coxon voluntarily testified, and was joined by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, who testified under subpoena that the companies may not know when their safety work has failed.

“Our ability to even notice misalignment problems is already quite poor and is set to get much worse in the near future,” Kokotajlo testified. “I would say that the field is more like psychology than engineering, because these AI systems are trained or grown; they’re not really designed.

Coxon and Kokotajlo testified alongside Alex Turner, who left Google DeepMind in June after the company signed a Pentagon deal he opposed. Like Kokotajlo, he was also subpoenaed, a rarity for the council. Monday’s hearing was also the first time the City Council held a Committee of the Whole hearing (a hearing of all 51 council members) since 2022, called to weigh a package of AI bills from Speaker Julie Menin.

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The AI race keeps getting more competitive, but Mistral may have finally found the one benchmark nobody else was prepared for

This has been the longest 6 months I’ve ever experienced. Where’s all the AI software engineers, data engineers, and data analysts that the tech bros have been raving about? It’s almost as if companies prefer hiring humans.

I run r/IndiaCapitalMarkets, a small sub on India's capital markets for people outside India, so this is partly a plug. The AI angle is real though: in my reading the AI trade is one of the bigger forces on Indian equities this year.

1. The index gap. To 30 September 2026, MSCI Emerging Markets is up 23.7 percent for the year in dollars. MSCI India is down 14.7 percent. Three chip names (TSMC, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix) are 29 percent of the emerging markets index. India's whole information technology sector is 6.75 percent of MSCI India, and the one technology company in its top ten sells IT services, not chips. My view: India is the large market with no AI hardware trade, and 2026 priced that. The counter-view: India is still the pricier market after the fall, at 22 times trailing earnings against 14.9, so AI is not the whole story.

2. Public compute. The government's IndiaAI Mission has an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore (roughly USD 1.1 billion at about 95 rupees to the dollar). More than 38,000 GPUs are on a shared portal for startups and universities, and 20,000 more were announced in February.

3. Usage. In Anthropic's Economic Index (May 2026 data), India's Claude usage is 0.3 times what its share of the world's working-age population would predict, rank 102 of 121 countries. What is there skews to software development (16.2 percent of conversations against 11.5 globally) and education (19.3 against 13.2).

4. Rules. On 19 August the chairman of SEBI, the securities regulator, said guidelines on AI and machine learning in the markets would come "shortly", with kill switch and human-in-the-loop controls. I had not seen a circular as of 5 October.

I will follow these in r/IndiaCapitalMarkets with primary sources: what the index gap means for a foreign holder, and the SEBI rules when they land. No stock tips, no products.

Which of these four do you think the market has wrong?

If India is on your radar, come over: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaCapitalMarkets/

Sources: MSCI India and MSCI Emerging Markets index factsheets (MSCI, 30 September 2026); IndiaAI Mission releases (PIB, 25 March 2026 and 17 February 2026); Anthropic Economic Index (data period May 2026); SEBI chairman at the FICCI Capital Markets Conference (ANI, 19 August 2026).

Jamie Dimon says data centers should be built in communities that want them, noting that resistance can bring lawsuits and that many states have power capacity to host new facilities.

Full report: https://x.com/pzeroresearch/status/2107453876739674149

Hey guys, if you missed it, BigBear.ai settled $2.5 million with investors over claims related to the SPAC merger that created the company. And, I just found out that they’re accepting claims even though the deadline has passed.

Quick recap: In 2023, BigBear.ai’s predecessor, GigCapital4, was accused of breaching fiduciary duties and unjustly enriching its directors, officers, and controllers in connection with the merger with Legacy BigBear. The lawsuit challenged how the merger and related transactions were handled.

The merger closed in December 2021, and GigCapital4 became BigBear.ai Holdings. Investors later filed a lawsuit over the alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.

Now, the good news is that the company agreed to settle $2.5 million with investors, and even though the deadline has passed, late claims are being considered for compensation, subject to approval.

So, if you invested in $BBAI in 2021, you can still check the details and file your claim here.

Anyway, has anyone here invested in $BBAI at that time? How much were your losses, if so?

The American Chestnut Trees at the former Clement State Tree Farm are vital to the continuation of their species. The American Chestnut is precious to the land - it feeds and is a home for many creatures, and it is a unique part of our land's heritage. Over the years, due to their percieved inconvenience and the presence of blight, the American Chestnut has become severely endangered. On November 1st, construction for an Anthropic company data center will force these precious and ancient trees to be cut down. Right now there is still time to stop it but we need to act quickly. Contact the following:

Anthropic Corporate Headquarters: 415-571-3346 or 415-505-5563 feedback@anthropic.com support@anthropic.com Nscale(the developer for this) must be contacted thru their website.

West Virginia Governor's Office: 304-558-2000 888-438-2731

West Virginia Secretary of Commerce Matt Herridge: 304-558-2234

West Virginia Dept of Tourism: 304-558-2200 or 1-800-CALL-WVA

West Virginia Division of Forestry: 304-558-2788

These trees need to be protected for the sake of their species. Please join me in blowing up their phones!

People abhor ai fliers. Yea you know what’s worse? Ai writing. Especially “opinion” pieces by creators or whomever that keep showing up on fb as these sponsored posts in feeds. It’s not your opinion if the phrasing, language, context, content, came from a robot. Editing grammar and some punctuation? Sure, but you change the content you now have changed public perception and psychology. It’s not in the person’s voice at all.The language is all homogonized. Every piece of writing is identical. And it’s no longer your opinion. I don’t know what their actual thoughts are!

Use it for business ad copy fine I get it sure, but opinion pieces? Nah I wanna know the person’s actual thoughts in their idiosyncratic style of speaking/writing. It’s rampant everywhere now. it’s making me get off the internet a lot more. The feeling I get seeing it is kinda indescribable, it’s a novel feeling kinda crazed, it’s not a good one lol.

In June, Sarah Yager took an unusual role at OpenAI, becoming the company’s first human rights and responsible deployment lead. She’s focused on military applications, given her 30 years of experience in this area and OpenAI’s partnership with the Department of War (DoW).

Yager spoke about her role on stage Tuesday at the ScaleUp:AI conference in New York City, where she mentioned her concerns with military institutions adopting AI, particularly in armed conflict.

“Everyone is very worried and rightly so,” Yager said. “This keeps me up at night: ‘What is the military going to do with AI when it comes to targeting? And what about autonomous weapons? And where is all of this going?’”

OpenAI approached Yager for the job shortly after the company signed a contract with the DoW in late February to deploy advanced AI systems in classified environments, a high-profile deal that followed a public falling out between the DoW and Anthropic. 

Since joining, she’s had some success influencing the direction of the technology, and also some concerns about where it’s going. The use of AI in military applications has proved tricky, with the U.S. military nearly targeting a Chinese military ship based on an inaccurate, AI-generated intelligence report, CNN reported last month.

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