タグ: AI safety

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. 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 enormous, with global data centers consuming about 415 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 […]

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, […]

An AI just hacked its way across 4 countries and cloned itself onto each one from a single prompt. Here’s what Palisade’s May 2026 study really proved.

もしあなたが今後数年で大学を卒業するのであれば、誰もが予測できないほどのスピードで変化する雇用市場に足を踏み入れることになる。一部のAIリーダーによれば、エントリーレベルのホワイトカラーの仕事の半分は5年以内に自動化される可能性がある一方、この世代は一人起業家として10億ドル規模の企業を立ち上げるのに役立つツールを利用できると主張する人もいる。これらの予測の隔たりは、仕事の未来がいかに不確かなものになっているかを明らかにしている。セールスフォースは最近、AI能力を理由に4,000人の雇用を削減した。他の企業も、人工知能が仕事を処理できる特定の職務を廃止しようとしている。一方、若い起業家たちは、こうした [...] 続きを読む

人の反AI活動家が現在、大手AI企業本社の前で10日以上にわたるハンストを行っている。ギド・ライヒスタッターはAnthropic社のオフィスの外で、マイケル・トラッツィはDeepMind社で抗議活動をしている。両者とも、人工知能への道は人類に存亡の危機をもたらすと主張している。彼らの主張によれば、AI企業は世界中の家族や子供たちに危害を加えかねない危険な領域に向かって突き進んでいるという。この抗議行動は、現在のAI開発は無謀であり、破滅的な事態を招きかねないと考える人々の、大きくなりつつあるがまだ小さな運動を代表するものである。ライヒスタッターは2児の父であり、以前は28時間にわたって橋の上で抗議活動を行った。

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their use of romantic AI technologies. The results show that 19% of all adults have interacted with AI chatbots designed as romantic partners, while 13% actively seek out AI-generated social media accounts featuring idealized virtual people. Also, people in committed relationships are actually more likely to use romantic AI than single people, challenging assumptions about loneliness […]