AI capex

Four companies are spending $2 billion a day on data centres. What AI actually bills does not cover the wear on the machines

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta will put $725 billion into sheds and graphics cards this year — more than most countries spend on everything, and 77% more than last year. Put the subtraction on the table and nobody disputed it. What they argued about for four rounds was who pays the difference — and that is where it stops being a Silicon Valley story.

Autonomous weapons

The operator chose the petrol station. The software chose the propane tanks. Nobody chose the three people

Every rule we have for killing in war attaches a decision to a person. In Zaporizhzhia on 6 July there is no person to attach it to — and the law has no word for what happened instead.