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Microsoft is facing a reckoning with its own climate commitments. The company reported a twenty-five percent surge in carbon emissions, driven almost entirely by the explosive growth of its data centers. It's a sharp reminder that the AI boom has a very real environmental price tag attached to it.
That tension between technology and the natural world shows up differently in Missouri this week, where dozens of people had to be rescued after what forecasters are calling a one-in-one-thousand-year rainfall event. The flooding has renewed urgent questions about how climate change is rewriting the odds on extreme weather, and whether our infrastructure is anywhere close to ready.
On a more constructive note, the Ethereum Foundation is putting artificial intelligence to work as a security tool, deploying AI agents specifically designed to hunt for software vulnerabilities. The effort recently turned up a real flaw in libp2p, a core networking library. It's an early but meaningful signal that AI could become a genuine partner in keeping critical open-source infrastructure safer.
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