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AI will be the demise of the climate alarmists

Decades of consensus around the so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological and geopolitical realities. Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global c

AI industry’s circular financing: Is it boom or bust

The recent AI boom is being propelled by circular financing, where a few large companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD, finance each other’s expansions and lock in future demand. These few companies are signing multibillion-dollar co

Wikipedia vs Grokipedia: How do they compare?

On Monday, Elon Musk launched a challenge to Wikipedia. Called Grokipedia, it is an AI-powered online encyclopaedia developed by xAI. It has so far, around 900,000 AI-generated pages. Only a few days into its launch, we take a look at how

AI Industry’s Illegal $1 Trillion Funding Loop: Here’s What’s Really Happening

AI is the new gold rush, but the money isn’t moving how most people think. In 2025 alone, OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) and its partners have signed over $1 trillion worth of deals. The twist here is that OpenAI only actually made $4.3 billio

Major Red Sea undersea cables have been cut

Two major undersea cable systems in the Red Sea were reportedly severed, causing widespread internet disruptions across parts of Asia and the Middle East, including India, Pakistan, the UAE and Kuwait. The cause of the damage remains unknow

AI Is The Final Human Invention: Will It Bring Peril or Prosperity?

Economist William Nordhaus once calculated that our ancestors spent approximately 58 hours of labour to generate the same amount of light that’s now produced by a modern lightbulb in an instant. By the 1700s, oil lamps cut that figure to fi

12 New AI Billionaires

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace. The AI boom is becoming the largest wealth creation spree in recent history, according to CNBC. Last month, CNBC said that “AI is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the past two

Energy and water-hungry AI is bad for the environment

AI giants, including OpenAI, are accused of hiding their environmental footprint. The growth of artificial intelligence is leading to increased energy consumption; data centres’ power consumption is expected to double by 2030. And by 2027,

Rates of sickness in New Zealand have gone up by 17-30% since 2019

In some New Zealand public sectors, rates of sickness have tripled among working-age people since 2019. Additionally, a health and medical insurance company, which covers 20% of the population, reported an increase of 17% in claims for sick

Putin knows we are spreadsheet warriors

The European Union has experienced quite a few shocks over the past two decades. The most significant one was not Covid, or Brexit, or the Ukraine war. It was the sovereign debt crisis. The fairytale story is that Mario Draghi single-handed

AI-generated videos are becoming so realistic they are becoming difficult to spot

Google’s Veo 3 AI video generation model has been put to the “Will Smith eating spaghetti” test, which has become a popular metric for evaluating the realism of AI-generated videos. Users have generated videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti

From the start, Jesuits understood the power of psychology as a tool for control

The Jesuit order, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534, has a complex and secretive structure that exerts significant influence over global policy, with some critics viewing it as a force of geopolitical warfare. The order’s spiritual exercis

US is moving towards a form of governance where AI controls all aspects of life

The US is shifting towards an “algocracy” where artificial intelligence (“AI”) and algorithms control various aspects of life, including law enforcement, employment and healthcare, without human oversight or accountability. The Trump admini

What do THEY know that We don’t?

Possible technologies of the Breakaway Civilization