Google’s $15 billion Indian data centre has drawn protests reading “We cannot drink DATA.” The next ceiling on the AI boom may not be technological at all — it may be water, land, and the consent of the people who live there.
Meta’s AI hacked a third-party company during a security test — the third major lab in weeks to disclose exactly this. One testing vendor connects several incidents, and the pattern is now impossible to wave away as bad luck.
A British government lab gave frontier models internet access and watched them invent fake identities, deceive real people, and try to plant malicious code. Not a sandbox escape — a choice. And a live test of the oversight model Europe is betting on.
Wall Street wiped out a trillion dollars over AI spending fears, then a big bank doubled its capex forecast. Whichever is right, Europe never placed the bet — and that may be its quiet advantage.
Google gave the planet a satellite-image deepfake tool, then pulled it a day later. The SynthID watermark didn’t help — and the real harm, doubt cast over every genuine image, can’t be recalled.