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Anthropic could just stop

We’re living through an AI-fueled “Black October” and things are changing fast. Hackers are using AI to breach countless companies.

Culture

Lit Hub Daily: October 27, 2026

Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur women artists in fiction. | Lit Hub Art Fake news, far-right propaganda, exaggerated crowd sizes, a squabbling left.

Science

Underwater data centers may be coming to the U.S.—smack in the middle of endangered whale habitat

Ocean water could help dissipate the heat from data centers, but the infrastructure could threaten endangered whales

  • U.S. considers underwater data centers in Cook Inlet, Alaska, and Gulf of Maine.
  • Whales, including 300 critically endangered belugas, threatened by noise pollution.
  • Data centers could disrupt ecosystems, harming salmon populations crucial to belugas.
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