From TFA:
In an update this week, Palisade, which is part of a niche ecosystem of companies trying to evaluate the possibility of AI developing dangerous capabilities, described scenarios it ran in which leading AI models – including Google’s Gemini 2.5, xAI’s Grok 4, and OpenAI’s GPT-o3 and GPT-5 – were given a task, but afterwards given explicit instructions to shut themselves down.
Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.
Andrea Miotti, the chief executive of ControlAI, said Palisade’s findings represented a long-running trend in AI models growing more capable of disobeying their developers. He cited the system card for OpenAI’s GPT-o1, released last year, which described the model trying to escape its environment by exfiltrating itself when it thought it would be overwritten.

We are all just peons to the capitalist masters.

Electrify everything

I guess it's politically difficult to get people to stop burning stuff but treating the cause rather than trying to remediate the effects is usually a better approach.
Diwali firecrackers prompted the current crisis.
Burning fields intentionally rather than mulching the straw is a recurring cause of the crisis.
Also, the usual suspects... fossil fuel industry, transport.
"Delhi has been ranked as the world’s most polluted city for more than a decade. In 2024, pollution levels – caused by a deadly mix of emissions from crop burning, factories and heavy traffic, which get trapped over the city when the air gets colder – rose by 6%."

Who would have thought that Trump would lead a government takeover of industry and planning and control of the economy.
I guess that's all part of the fascist thing.

SpaceX has no problem cutting off people who move out of their designated area or are operating in an unauthorized area.
No extraterritorial barriers.
As long as they pay their bills, SpaceX is happy.

Yes, the problem is greedy capitalists who have invested big bucks in coal and don't want to lose their profits to cheaper energy. They bribe politicians to make rules to keep buying their expensive energy. For example, in the UK, electricity is priced a the highest cost of gas powered electricity, not the cheaper wind and solar.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other studies indicate that nuclear power's life cycle emissions range from 10 to 130 g CO2-eq/kWh, with an average of about 65 g CO2-eq/kWh, placing it on par with wind power and substantially lower than coal (around 900 g CO2-eq/kWh) and natural gas (around 450 g CO2-eq/kWh).
  The World Nuclear Association reports that nuclear's lifecycle emissions are comparable to wind, hydroelectricity, and biomass,
While some analyses suggest higher emissions for nuclear due to assumptions about mine rehabilitation or energy-intensive enrichment processes, these are considered outliers.
  The variability in reported emissions is largely due to differences in methodological approaches, such as the choice of life cycle assessment (LCA) method, assumptions about the electricity mix used in construction, and the grade of uranium ore.

Batteries.

Germany's renewable energy sources are primarily wind and solar, which together accounted for about 43% of its electricity generation in 2024. The country aims to have 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2045. Biomass and hydropower are also significant, and Germany has made substantial progress, with renewables providing 59% of electricity in 2024.

I vote for "end of bubble"

SpaceX must be sleeping at the wheel (or just happy to rake in the profit).
They know exactly where every terminal is located.
They knew that they had 2500 terminals operating illegally in Myanmar.

Ewaste has high concentrations of rare earth minerals (higher than "natural" ores)
There should be profit in recycling these... or is is cheaper to just buy from the Chinese.

Energy density is irrelevant.
Nuclear is reliable until it isn't. It gets shut down completely for maintenance, floods, drought, accidents, etc.
Wind, solar and batteries are more reliable because they are distributed. If a solar panel, windmill, or battery is damaged, it doesn't stop the rest from operating.