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Germany is making a striking bet on the energy transition. The former Grohnde nuclear power plant, once a symbol of atomic power, is being repurposed as a one point four gigawatt battery storage facility — one of the largest in Europe. It's a telling sign of how quickly the grid storage landscape is shifting.
On the security front, a previously unknown Chinese threat group has been found inside critical infrastructure networks across Poland and several Asian nations, with activity dating back to December twenty twenty four and continuing into this month. Researchers say the group uses an unusual technique called command and control on a sleep cycle, making detection significantly harder. The timing, just ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, is raising eyebrows.
And from Nvidia, a candid admission that cuts against the AI hype cycle. A company executive acknowledged this week that the cost of compute currently exceeds the cost of human labor, suggesting that full workforce displacement by AI remains, for now, an economic stretch rather than an imminent reality. It's a rare moment of restraint from one of the industry's loudest voices.
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