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A volunteer security group called the Bitcoin Red Team says it has scanned one hundred fifty Bitcoin repositories using AI tools and uncovered more than a dozen critical vulnerabilities. The effort is now building an open-source platform to automate those security reviews across the broader ecosystem — a reminder that open-source software is only as safe as the people watching it.
Meanwhile, the energy appetite behind that AI boom is drawing serious scrutiny. A new report argues that Amazon's data center expansion has made the company the single largest pollution source in the country. The scale of power demand from cloud and AI infrastructure is forcing a reckoning that the industry has largely avoided — until now.
And on the labor side of that same industry, a pattern is emerging in recent layoffs at Oracle, Amazon, and Cloudflare. All three companies have cut teams while simultaneously expanding AI investments, suggesting the displacement isn't random — it's structural. The question isn't whether AI is changing headcounts. It's how fast, and who absorbs the cost.
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