In the global race to dominate AI, China is the tortoise to the U.S.’s hare—and we know who won that fabled contest.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Sep 9 2025
DATA CENTERS’ PLANS EXCEED ELECTRIC GRID’S CAPACITY
Companies planning new AI data centers have swamped electric utilities with so many requests for connections that “in some cases, the collective requests equal or surpass—by multiples—the existing electricity demand in a utility’s entire service region,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
AI TEACHES FACTORY ROBOTS TO PRIORITIZE HUMAN SAFETY
Robots working alongside people in factories work according to precise instructions; humans not so much.
FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” DEPARTMENT…
AI models might be a few lines of miswritten code away from going to the dark side.
NEW APPROACH TO “REASONING” AI BEATS CURRENT MODELS IN KEY TEST
AIs that “reason” are beginning to emerge but the rollout has been bumpy, as we noted in “OpenAI Embarrasses Itself With Release of ChatGPT-5” (19 Aug 2025).
OPENAI GETS INTO THE MOVIE BUSINESS
OpenAI has lent its AI software and computing services to the creation of a feature-length animated movie titled “Critterz” that will be released globally next year, The Wall Street Journal reported.





