Today's Hallucination HQNew York Hits Pause on Data Centres, Presumably to Think About What It's DoneNew York has become the first US state to slap a moratorium on new hyperscale data centres, with Governor Kathy Hochul signing a pause of up to one year on fresh builds. The order is about energy — these facilities consume extraordinary amounts of it, and New York's grid is apparently not thrilled about that. A separate, stricter bill from the state legislature still awaits her signature, so this may merely be the amuse-bouche. Source: The Verge
Anthropic Runs Ad Acknowledging AI Is a Bit Worrying, Which Is Extremely On BrandAnthropic's latest ad leans into public unease about AI — essentially saying "yes, this is concerning, and we're the ones concerned about it" — a marketing strategy that is either admirably self-aware or a masterclass in having it both ways. The company has long positioned itself as the responsible adult in a room full of toddlers with flamethrowers. Whether an advertisement is the best vessel for that message is, charitably, a question worth asking. Source: TechCrunch
441 People on the Internet Discuss Whether We're Thinking Enough. Irony Remains UndefeatedA piece questioning whether we're outsourcing too much cognition to AI has racked up 417 comments on Hacker News, which means several hundred people thought deeply about it, typed their thoughts, and posted them — presumably without AI assistance, though one can't be certain. The underlying concern is legitimate: if you delegate all your thinking, you may find the muscle has quietly atrophied. Whether that's terrifying or just efficient depends entirely on how much you enjoyed thinking in the first place. Source: Hacker News
Anthropic Found a Window Into Claude's Mind. It Was Complicated In ThereAnthropic announced it had discovered a new way to observe what's happening inside Claude's internal reasoning — described, with admirable caution, as a window rather than a door. MIT Technology Review's James O'Donnell does the important work of explaining what this actually shows and, crucially, what it doesn't. Interpretability research is one of AI safety's harder problems, and finding a partial view inside a model's thinking is genuinely significant — roughly as illuminating, and roughly as incomplete, as reading someone's diary and finding half the pages blank. Source: MIT Technology Review
Hugging Face CEO Suggests the AI Race's Most Interesting Lap Is Happening in the Cheap SeatsClem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, argues that enterprises are increasingly reaching for open models over frontier ones — drawn by lower costs, greater control, and the basic appeal of owning what you're running. The question this raises is quietly devastating for the labs spending billions chasing benchmark supremacy: if most real-world AI runs on open models anyway, what exactly is the frontier for? Bragging rights, apparently, and a very expensive Christmas card list. Source: TechCrunch
As ever, the machines are thinking, New York is pausing, and somewhere a data centre is quietly eyeing New Jersey.
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