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Today in brief.
Data centers are unpopular and gas-hungry
Polls show AI data centers losing with the public, while projections say US data centers could burn more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035.
🎬 Media
OpenArt Arena ranks creative models by real jobs
OpenArt launches Arena, a blind creative leaderboard judged by pros across Film, Ads, Animation, Motion Design, and more, so "best model" finally means best for a job.
🤖 AI
Perplexity agents build CobbleDB in two months
Two Perplexity engineers plus hundreds of Computer agents shipped CobbleDB, an in-house DynamoDB-class store, aiming to save up to $100M a year, while Computer lands preinstalled on HP ZBook.
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🤖 AI
Gemini 3.8 Live talks and thinks in the background
DeepMind ships Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking: conversational models that talk, reason, and keep tasks running without breaking your flow.
Paying for frontier buys 4 months at 5x cost
Ars reports open Chinese models have closed so much of the gap that paying for frontier mostly buys a ~4-month head start at about 5x the cost.
🤖 AI
Odyssey-3 world model drives robots and cars
Odyssey unveils Odyssey-3, a foundation world model that can control robots, humanoids, cars on Indian roads, drones, training loops, and even games.
🤖 AI
Claude for Financial Advisors ships real connectors
Anthropic's Claude for Financial Advisors is a Cowork plugin with live wealth-stack connectors, not a new model and not unsupervised advice.
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🔬 Science
Local LLM payback math and an M4 Linux GPU driver
Sunk Cost estimates when a local LLM rig pays for itself, while a builder ships a Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini in one month.
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