タグ: AI safety

Yes, AI is bad for the environment, and the numbers are no longer up for debate. Global data-center electricity use is set to jump from 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly 945 TWh by 2030 per the International Energy Agency, mostly because of AI. Cornell researchers project AI servers alone will emit 24 to 44 million metric tons of CO₂ and consume 731 to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year by 2030. That is equivalent to adding 5 to 10 million cars to U.S. roads and matching the household water use of 6 to 10 million Americans. That is the bad news, and it is real. The longer […]

The old advice is dead. Counting fingers, hunting for garbled text, and squinting at melted ears stopped working sometime in 2025, and by 2026 top models like Nano Banana Pro render hands cleanly and on-image text in the mid-90% accuracy range. A clean hand or correctly spelled sign no longer proves a photo is real, which is exactly why most “spot the AI image” guides you will find are quietly out of date. This guide gives you a method that still works. To tell if a photo is AI generated in 2026 you work top-down through three layers: check the photo’s provenance first (cryptographic Content Credentials and watermark verification), then […]

Daniela Amodei is the president and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. Born in San Francisco in 1987, she co-founded Anthropic with her older brother Dario Amodei in 2021 after both left OpenAI, where she served as VP of Safety and Policy. Anthropic reached a $380 billion valuation in February 2026 and is reportedly in talks to raise at a $900 billion pre-money valuation as of May 2026. A note that clears up the most common confusion about her: Daniela and Dario Amodei are siblings, not spouses. Her husband is Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of Open Philanthropy (now called Coefficient Giving). This article walks through her background, […]

Stanford researchers found that AI detectors falsely flagged 61.3% of non-native English essays as machine-written. OpenAI shut down its own AI text detector in July 2023 because it correctly identified just 26% of AI-generated text. A 2024 study by Perkins and colleagues put the baseline accuracy of six major detectors at 39.5%. Yet vendors still advertise 99% accuracy, and roughly 40% of US colleges use these tools to police student work in 2026. This guide explains how AI detectors actually work, the four studies that puncture the 99%-accuracy claim, and the seven detectors worth knowing about with current pricing. You will also find out why these tools flag honest human […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. For a chatbot built specifically around lighter, lower-energy models, see our GreenPT review. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet at roughly 2.8 Wh for a medium prompt, DeepSeek-V3 near 2 Wh for a medium prompt, and DeepSeek-R1 reasoning at about 29 Wh, the same heavyweight tier as GPT-5-class models. Credible per-prompt estimates span more than 65x. At scale the picture is […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near 32% and Anthropic was under 8%. The lead is one month old, but the trajectory is brutal. If you’re choosing between Claude and ChatGPT, or trying to make sense of which company you actually want to bet on, the honest answer is messier than the headline. OpenAI is still the biggest AI brand on the […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more than 1,000x. At scale it adds up, with US data centers consuming about 17 billion gallons of water directly in 2023 and that figure projected to double or even quadruple by 2028. This guide gives you verified numbers for every version of the question, so per prompt, per question, per day, per year, and per […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is that heavier models reverse this; researchers estimate GPT-5 averages around 18 watt-hours per query, with complex answers reaching 40 Wh. Across 2.5 billion queries a day, even the small number adds up to roughly 310 GWh a year. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, […]

A three-person security team built the first public Apple M5 exploit in roughly five days, going from an ordinary unprivileged account to a full root shell on macOS while Apple’s newest hardware defense was switched on. They did it with help from Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s gated frontier model. The target was Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a defense Apple spent about five years, and by the researchers’ own estimate billions of dollars, building. That timeline is the headline, and it deserves scrutiny rather than panic. A lot of the viral framing around this story is wrong. Mythos did not autonomously crack Apple’s defenses, MIE was not “broken,” and the widely […]

More than 1,000 people every month type “how to turn off Google Gemini” into search, and the number keeps climbing. Google quietly switched Gemini on by default across Gmail, Chrome, Android, Workspace, Maps and Search through 2025 and early 2026, and most users only noticed when the AI started summarising their inbox or hijacking the power button. A class-action lawsuit (Thele v. Google LLC, filed November 11, 2025) accuses Google of secretly enabling these features around October 10, 2025. Users in the EU, UK and Japan were opted out by default, while US users were opted in. If you live in the US, the off switch is yours to find, […]