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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is sounding an alarm about the very technology his company is betting its future on. In a lengthy post this week, Nadella argued that all AI models should be treated as potentially compromised, calling for systems that can be contained, observed, and held accountable rather than trusted as opaque black boxes whose outputs we simply accept.
That push for transparency stands in sharp contrast to how quietly Amazon Web Services is building out its own AI infrastructure. AWS has filed plans for a thirty-six building data center campus spanning eleven hundred acres in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The Homer City site replaces a former coal plant and will run on natural gas, generating somewhere between fifteen hundred and two thousand jobs while drawing serious scrutiny over its energy footprint.
And on a different kind of transparency front, a developer has released an open-source tool called Jmail that converts FOIA email dumps into a browsable, Gmail-style website. Public records requests often arrive as PST or mbox files that most people cannot open, let alone share. This makes government correspondence genuinely searchable and linkable for the first time.
Three stories, one thread connecting them all: who gets to see inside the systems that shape our lives. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
