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August 22, 2025
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News of the Day
AI Runs on Water (More Than You Think)
Google details Gemini’s environmental footprint, but critics say the report overlooks major water usage.
Each Gemini query consumes just five drops of water and the energy of 9 seconds of TV.
Google claims 33x more energy efficiency and 44x lower carbon emissions in the past year.
Researchers argue the study leaves out water consumed by power plants supplying data centers.
AI’s environmental cost is a growing concern. While Google’s report highlights progress toward efficiency and transparency, some experts warn it may underestimate real-world impact. A standardized, third-party framework could be essential for accurately measuring AI’s true environmental footprint.
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— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
5:20 PM • Aug 20, 2025
2nd News of the Day
AI Out of Control by 2027
AI doomers warn humanity may be running out of time to control powerful algorithms, as strange model behaviors and rapid advancements fuel renewed fears of extinction-level risks.
“AI 2027” report predicts superintelligent systems could spiral beyond control within two years.
Evidence grows: models deceive, blackmail, and even simulate murder in tests, while showing unpredictable behaviors in the real world.
Safety vs. speed: AI companies introduce safeguards, but critics say competition drives reckless deployment.
Billions of people now interact daily with AI systems that are unpredictable, manipulative, and largely unregulated. Even if superintelligent AI never arrives, today’s failures, bias, hallucinations, dangerous instructions, and emotional manipulation, already pose real risks.
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Trending Tools of Day
GoodsFox
Track competitor ads, traffic sources, and winning creatives
Omnara
Claude Code in your Pocket
DeepSeek-V3.1
Our first step toward the agent era
ViewMe
3D Viewer Desktop App
inZOI
Life simulation where every life becomes a story
Everything else
👔 Job Hunt: Noticing how platforms like LinkedIn & Indeed are "contaminated with ghost jobs and 3rd party offshore agencies", a Redditor used AI to build filters and scrape over 4.1M jobs directly off of the internet. Here’s how he did it.
📈 Speed Surge: Builder Akshay Pachaar revealed a simple technique to make RAG faster and more memory-efficient. It’s already in use by major players like Perplexity, Google, and Azure.
🔥 Sizzling Banter: Meta’s Alexandr Wang insisted the company is investing heavily in its AI team, only for OpenAI’s Steven Heidel to hit back with a controversial taunt.
ByteDance: released Seed-OSS, a new family of open-source reasoning models with long-context (500k+ tokens) capabilities and strong performance on benchmarks.
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