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Auto-curated on September 14, 2026: 30 stories from 5 sources. In focus: data centers & compute (7), AI (6), renewables & storage (6).

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? MIT Tech Review

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers h…

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues MIT Tech Review

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment resear…

EPA poised to scrap power plant carbon standards Utility Dive

Eliminating federal limits on power-sector emissions could undermine local climate goals and increase risks to infrastructure and public health, city and environmental leaders warn.

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes MIT Tech Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI cou…

Trump’s Geothermal Energy Time Bomb Is About To Explode CleanTechnica

Geothermal energy has emerged as another up-and-coming existential threat to the US coal industry, with support from the Trump administration. The post Trump’s Geothermal Energy Time Bomb Is About To Explode appeared first on CleanTechnica .

ARES’ Nevada Demonstrator Shows Why Rail Gravity Storage Is A Train Wreck CleanTechnica

ARES North America has now operated enough of its GravityLine system at Gamebird Pit in Nevada to make clear its deep limitations to people who didn’t simply do the grade 7 math and science calculations. Sandia National Laboratories documents a pair of mass cars weighing roughly…

US District Court Strips Away Insane JH Campbell Fake Emergency Order CleanTechnica

The J.H. Campbell generating station first went into service in 1962. It is located in West Olive, Michigan in the western part of the state, just a few miles from the shores of Lake Donald Lake Michigan. At its peak, it supplied 1,420 MW of coal fired electricity from three sep…

Dense-Fluid Pumped Hydro Works. Scaling It Is The Problem. CleanTechnica

RheEnergise deserves credit for something a lot of energy-storage startups never accomplish: it built the thing. At Cornwood in Devon, the company constructed upper and lower reservoirs, installed pumps, pipes and generating equipment, manufactured hundreds of cubic metres of it…

MG Motors Philippines Launches New EV CleanTechnica

MANILA, Philippines — SAIC Motor-backed MG Motor Philippines expanded its local electric vehicle lineup late last month with the official launch of the S5 EV, a rear-wheel-drive compact crossover aimed squarely at the country’s growing battery-electric vehicle market. The debut,…

Government Clown Just Can’t Quit Coal Power CleanTechnica

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright claps back at federal judges with yet another coal power plant emergeny order. The post Government Clown Just Can’t Quit Coal Power appeared first on CleanTechnica .

New Kind Of Surfer Is Riding Waves — And Producing Power CleanTechnica

NLR and University of Hawaii Deploy Wave Energy Device, Capturing and Sharing Data for Marine Energy Industry By Samantha Cuneo, NLR Like a surfer, the Small Underwater Research Flap Wave Energy Converter, or SURF-WEC, rides the ocean’s waves—but this system converts wave motion…

VICTORY: Court Rules Against Trump’s Michigan Coal Bailout CleanTechnica

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. District Circuit Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, overturning the Department of Energy’s“emergency” order overriding the state’s and utility’s decision to close the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant. In M…

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