Clean Energy Tech Deals Are Booming—Powered By Data Centers

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how the U.S. EV market is about to get quirkier and the bipartisan appeal of recycling.

When Patients Ask AI For Medical Advice, Who Gets Recommended?

The uncomfortable part for healthcare providers isn’t that patients are asking AI. It’s that most providers have no idea whether the AI is recommending them.

Avengers: Doomsday official trailer breakdown live — all of our analysis and theories on the new Marvel movie’s latest teaser
Avengers: Doomsday official trailer breakdown live — all of our analysis and theories on the new Marvel movie’s latest teaser

Marvel has publicly revealed the official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday — join TechRadar as we break it down in real time.

‘For humans, the capacity to say, ‘I don’t know,’ is very important’: Report finds AI really might be harming our critical thinking skills
‘For humans, the capacity to say, ‘I don’t know,’ is very important’: Report finds AI really might be harming our critical thinking skills

New paper reveals human critical thinking could be declining as participants choose to trust AI-generated outputs too much.

This $450-off HP OmniBook 2-in-1 is the work and study laptop I’d buy in Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale
This $450-off HP OmniBook 2-in-1 is the work and study laptop I’d buy in Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale

The business laptop is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor with 16GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD.

Microsoft Releases New Windows 11 Security Update Fix For Dell Users

An emergency, out-of-band Windows 11 update for Dell users has been confirmed by Microsoft to fix issues caused by the July Patch Tuesday security rollout.

A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’
A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’

A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, …

Government can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land
Government can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land

Utilities can use eminent domain to seize private land for new transmission lines needed to power data centers, though public-use and state-law limits still apply.

Power companies can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land
Power companies can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land

Utilities can use eminent domain to seize private land for new transmission lines needed to power data centers, though public-use and state-law limits still apply.