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LinkedIn is rethinking what it means for an AI to actually know you. Principal researcher Praveen Bodigutla and his team built a four-layer cognitive memory system for LinkedIn's hiring assistant, giving it persistent, personalized context across sessions. The goal is an agent that remembers your career trajectory, not just your last click.
That kind of AI infrastructure runs on serious power, and the energy cost is becoming impossible to ignore. A new report from Wired finds that data centers are driving an alarming expansion of natural gas projects across the United States. Dozens of plants have been proposed or are already under construction, raising hard questions about whether the AI boom is quietly locking in decades of fossil fuel dependency.
On a more hopeful note, NASA is counting down to August thirtieth, when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to leave Earth. Roman promises a field of view roughly one hundred times wider than Hubble's, and astronomers expect it to reshape our understanding of dark energy, exoplanets, and the large-scale structure of the universe. Worth watching.
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