Tag: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

If you’re graduating college in the next few years, you’re entering a job market that’s changing faster than anyone can predict. Half of entry-level white collar jobs could be automated within five years according to some AI leaders, while others argue this generation has access to tools that could help them build billion-dollar companies as […]

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

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 […]