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⚠️ AMERICA’S POWER GRID IS MELTING DOWN — BECAUSE OF AI: Artificial intelligence is causing your electric bill to skyrocket. Electric bills are spiking. Governors are threatening to quit the system. And it’s all because of AI data centers.
America’s biggest power grid — called PJM, short for Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection — is in trouble. It powers 67 million people in 13 states. But now, it’s overwhelmed by the energy demands of AI data centers — and it can’t build new power plants fast enough to keep up. The result? Bills are up 20% this summer, governors are furious, and the entire grid is at risk of collapse.
—> 💸 “WE’RE OUT” — PENNSYLVANIA’S THREAT TO PJM: Governor Josh Shapiro says Pennsylvania — the largest power exporter in the U.S. — may leave the PJM grid if it doesn’t fix the crisis. He’s calling for lower prices, faster action, and more transparency. Two PJM board members were just ousted, and the CEO is stepping down by year’s end.
—> 🔌 AI CHATBOTS ARE HUNGRY FOR POWER: Data centers — especially ones powering tools like ChatGPT — are driving the surge. PJM expects AI to need 32 gigawatts of new electricity by 2030 — but it’s only adding 5 gigawatts a year. That’s not fast enough, especially as older power plants are shutting down.
Source: Reuters, Utility Dive
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SPACE
🪐 BREAKING: WATER FOUND ON $100,000 QUADRILLION ASTEROID. NASA’s James Webb spots signs of rust on Psyche — and that could be a big deal. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a jaw-dropping discovery: signs of water on 16 Psyche — the most valuable rock in the solar system.
Long thought to be bone-dry and solid metal, Psyche now shows traces of hydrated minerals, suggesting rust — and possibly a much more complex origin story.
—> 💰 WHY THIS ASTEROID IS A BIG DEAL: Psyche is packed with iron, nickel, and other rare metals — so much so that it’s been valued at $100,000 quadrillion. That’s enough to crash the global economy if we ever mined it. Scientists once thought it was the exposed metal core of a baby planet, giving us a rare peek into what’s beneath the surface of Earth-like worlds.
—> 💧 WHAT NASA FOUND: JWST picked up a chemical signature for hydroxyl groups — a marker for water that’s bonded to metal. Think traces of rust, not puddles. Still, it’s the strongest evidence yet that Psyche’s surface was once touched by water-bearing asteroids.
—> 🌍 GLOBAL IMPACT: WATER IN SPACE = FUTURE BASES: Water in space means astronauts wouldn’t have to bring it from Earth — a major cost saver. If Psyche has both water and metal, it could be a future space gas station and construction site rolled into one.
—> 🚀 NASA ARRIVES IN 2029: NASA’s Psyche mission launched in 2023 and is racing toward the asteroid now. These new findings raise the stakes. If confirmed, we’re looking at the first known rusting treasure chest in space — and maybe the key to living beyond Earth.
Sources: Daily Galaxy, Orbital Today
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🪖 TECH BOSSES JOIN THE ARMY: Leaders from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir are now part of the U.S. Army Reserve. They're not learning to fight — they're helping soldiers use AI, data, and smart tech. It's called Detachment 201, and it’s a new unit made just for tech experts.
—> 💻 FROM C-SUITE TO CAMOUFLAGE: Big names like Kevin Weil (OpenAI) and Andrew “Boz” Bosworth (Meta) will spend a few weeks each year helping the Army build better tools — like AI-powered robots, drones, and health apps. They’ll wear uniforms and be called lieutenant colonels, but they won’t have to go to basic training or fight in wars.
—> 🏋️ YES, THEY STILL HAVE TO WORK OUT: Even though they’re tech nerds, they’ll still have to pass fitness tests and learn how to shoot. Some of them are nervous.
—> ⚔️ MEET THE FUTURE OF WAR: This new program shows how fast the world is changing. Future wars won’t just be about tanks — they’ll be about code, drones, and AI. And the Army wants to be ready.
Source: Wall Street Journal
HEALTH
🚨 🧬EARLY-ONSET COLON CANCER IS SURGING — AND SCIENTISTS THINK THEY KNOW WHY. Colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers are rising fast in Americans under 50, with researchers now pointing to obesity as the leading culprit. Young people today face up to 4x the risk of rectal cancer compared to those born in 1950 — and scientists warn the surge is part of a global trend.
—> 🍟 THE WESTERN DIET STRIKES AGAIN: Obesity is now linked to nearly double the risk of early-onset cases. Add in rising rates of inflammation, insulin resistance, drinking, smoking, and gut toxins like colibactin from E. coli — and you've got a recipe for cancer risk in younger generations.
—> 🩺 MISDIAGNOSED, UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE: Doctors often miss early signs in younger patients — leading to late-stage diagnoses and harsher treatments with no proven survival benefit. Colorectal cancer is now the #1 cancer killer of men under 50 and the #2 for women in that age group.
Source: Yahoo News
ROBOTS
🚨 AIRPORT RADAR COULD BE ALERTING ALIENS, STUDY SAYS. A new study presented this week at the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society claims that radar signals from major Earth airports — like JFK, O’Hare, and Heathrow — may be unintentionally “leaking” into deep space. These signals could act as a beacon for intelligent alien life, making Earth detectable from up to 200 light-years away. Yes, aliens might already know we’re here — because of air traffic control.
—> 🛰️ OUR AIR TRAFFIC IS SCREAMING ‘WE'RE HERE!’ The research, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, modeled how radar signals from civilian and military aviation spread beyond Earth. Turns out, they’re strong enough to reach neighboring star systems. Military radar, in particular, could appear “clearly artificial” to alien observers — like a lighthouse sweeping through the void.
—> 🌍 WHAT IS PROXIMA CENTAURI B? This rocky exoplanet, located just 4 light-years away, is the closest potentially habitable planet to Earth. If intelligent life exists there and it has radio telescopes like ours, it might already be listening. The study points to Proxima b as exactly the kind of place that could be tuning in to our unintentional broadcast.
—> 🔭 WHY IT MATTERS: This study doesn’t just suggest how aliens might find us — it also gives scientists a new way to look for them. By searching for similar radar “leaks” from distant worlds, astronomers could detect intelligent life elsewhere. In short: airport radar isn’t just for departures and arrivals anymore — it might be our calling card to the cosmos.
Source: Space.com
ONE MORE THING
🧠 APPLE PREPS AI-POWERED VISION PRO 2.0. Apple is planning the first major upgrade to its Vision Pro headset — a device that was supposed to change the future of computing, but instead landed with a thud. The new version, coming as early as this year, will pack a faster M4 chip, more AI power, and a redesigned strap to ease the head pain and neck strain users hated in the original.
—> 🤖 BUILT FOR AI: The new Vision Pro will include more neural cores to handle real-time mixed reality and generative AI tasks. That means faster processing of your environment — and smoother AR/VR experiences. Apple hopes this update will finally get developers and enterprise customers to take the device seriously.
—> 🎧 COMFORT UPGRADE: At 1.4 pounds, the current headset has been called a literal pain in the neck. Apple’s redesign focuses on a new head strap, not a lighter body. The long-term fix is still two years away: a slimmed-down model (code-named N100) is targeting a 2027 release.
—> 🥽 THE HEADSET WAR: Meta sells a cheaper mixed-reality headset, and critics say Apple is behind. But the Vision Pro’s AI-powered future may give it an edge — if it can survive long enough to get there. Apple’s endgame? True AR smart glasses by 2026 or later, ditching the bulk for a sleek HUD-style future.
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Kev
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