Meredith Broussard

Critical AI and data journalism professor at NYU

Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc

Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, its first public aggregate figure.
  • For comparison, Google reported roughly 6.4B gallons in 2023, Microsoft about 1.7B (up around 34% YoY), and Meta about 813M.
  • Bloomberg found roughly two-thirds of US data centers built or in development since 2022 sit in places with high water stress.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Anthropic's Mythos campaign—it must be understood as a marketing campaign above all—was the ne plus ultra of AI doom marketing. It was instrumental in vaulting Anthropic to its latest valuation and status as the top AI startup. But as AI firms are increasingly finding, there a…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/g…

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Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app

one of the most comprehensive surveys on children’s use of AI--conducted March 18-26, 2026, among 9-17yr olds in the US (N = 1,204)--has been released www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/defaul... highlighting key findings 🧵 "Nearly 9 in 10 kids age 9 to 17 (86%) use/interact with AI"

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