CAISO’s Large Loads clock: FERC show-cause EL26-71 — draft final and draft tariff language due 24 September.
Tariff-response process — not IEA +17% 2025; not PJM ride-through.
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The strongest stories from the latest edition.
Philadelphia Fed LIFE: workers reject AI damage to their own job — and still say the whole market is changing.
Own-job vs market perception — not Minneapolis Fed Freund–Mann; not a layoff print.
Read today’s coverageEU Transparency Code of Practice: 95 provider and 192 deployer signatories for AI-content marking.
Voluntary code uptake — not GPAI Code 53/55; not a restated Article 50 FAQ.
Read today’s coverageVirtual Biotech: ~37,000 AI agents mined >55,000 trials and proposed a CD276 lung-cancer ADC — still unvalidated.
In-silico discovery — not a bedside RCT; not JMIR first-trimester ML.
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Positive stories are included where they belong. A medical breakthrough goes under Health & Science. A job-gain story goes under Jobs. An energy-efficiency story goes under Environment.
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Jobs
Layoffs, hiring, wages, productivity, automation, job creation, and worker leverage.
02Environment
Energy demand, water use, emissions, data centers, grids, chips, and local siting conflicts.
03Policy
Regulation, safety, courts, procurement, enforcement, and public-sector governance.
04Health & Science
Medicine, biology, clinical AI, scientific discovery, and research infrastructure.
05Education & Culture
Schools, children, media literacy, creative work, synthetic media, and public trust.
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Useful, not theatrical.
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Today means today.
Current pages carry the latest publishing window; older material goes to the archive.
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One story, right lane.
Benefits are not siloed. Good news is filed under the category it affects.
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Source dates matter.
Edition dates and story dates are kept separate.
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Keep it human.
The point is to help readers see what changed and why it matters.
Origin
This started with buffalo cauliflower.
Frank made a funny AI image during a work trip. A coworker said it was wasteful and bad for the environment. Instead of dismissing that concern, he wanted a better answer: what does one AI use actually cost, and how should people think about all the bigger uses happening every day?
Read the origin story