Automation and the New Working Class: Who Gets Left Behind?

When ChatGPT arrived at the end of 2022, the conversation about automation shifted to white-collar work for the first time. Suddenly it was lawyers, coders, and consultants who were reading about their own obsolescence. The articles wrote themselves: Is your job next? Here is what AI can already do. This framing was not entirely wrong, … Read more

Nvidia Confirms Next-Gen Blackwell Ultra Chip Delayed to Q3

Nvidia has confirmed that its next-generation Blackwell Ultra GPU will not begin shipping until the third quarter of this year, the company told investors in a briefing on Monday. The chipmaker had previously indicated a late Q2 availability window. The delay is attributed to thermal management issues identified during final validation testing. Nvidia said the … Read more

Europe’s Electricity Grid Is Not Ready for What’s Coming

On a windy Sunday morning in October last year, Denmark’s wind turbines produced more electricity than the entire country consumed. The surplus was sold to Norway, Germany, and Sweden at negative prices — the grid operator paid neighbouring countries to take the power. This should have been a moment of celebration. Instead, it illustrated a … Read more

Why Remote Work Is Not Going Away, No Matter What CEOs Say

Amazon’s Andy Jassy sent the memo in September 2023. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon called remote work a “temporary anomaly.” Goldman Sachs had already been pulling people back since 2021. The message from the corner office has been consistent: the pandemic experiment is over, everyone back to their desks. There is only one problem. It is not … Read more

The Real Cost of AI: What the Industry Isn’t Telling You

Every time you ask a chatbot to write your email or summarize a contract, a data center somewhere draws more electricity than your home uses in a day. The model running that request was trained on hardware that consumed water equivalent to filling an Olympic swimming pool — not once, but repeatedly across months of … Read more