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Boeing and its autonomous aviation subsidiary Wisk are facing a lawsuit over safety claims tied to their electric vertical takeoff and landing software. The suit challenges whether the companies accurately represented the reliability of systems designed to carry passengers without a pilot — a question with serious regulatory weight as the FAA edges toward certifying autonomous air taxis.
Shifting from the skies to the power grid, a new report is raising alarms about AI data centers consuming electricity faster than utilities can supply it. Three in four electricity executives now believe demand will outpace grid capacity, with volatile AI workloads creating unpredictable spikes that existing infrastructure simply wasn't built to absorb. The uncomfortable irony is that AI itself may be among the best tools for forecasting those surges.
And in a story that asks more questions than it answers, an AI-generated character named Tilly Norwood is reportedly starring in a feature-length film. She doesn't exist in any physical sense, yet she's being positioned as a lead performer — which puts studios, actors' unions, and audiences in genuinely uncharted territory about what it means to watch someone on screen.
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