AI-assisted researchers found two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites. The details leaked a day early, governments took sites offline, and exploit attempts ran into the millions. Confirmed compromises so far: none tied to the flaws themselves.
New START has lapsed, leaving the two largest arsenals unconstrained for the first time in half a century. A modelled index of nuclear risk now stands where it did in 1983.
$130 billion of US data-centre projects blocked or delayed in a single quarter. Power bills, water and land have made AI infrastructure an election issue.
