{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Real-World Costs of AI: Data Centres, Memory Cycles, and Desktop Agents","description":"Claire and Peter break down the day’s biggest shifts shaping AI beyond the hype. A Gallup survey finds 71% of Americans oppose data centres near their homes, turning “the cloud” into a local politics and infrastructure battle. They explore warnings that the high-bandwidth memory boom could face a familiar boom-bust cycle, and why demand could cool if models get more memory-efficient. Plus: the surge in forward deployed engineers as companies scramble for people who can ship AI into real operations; Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and the governance stakes of desktop agents that can act across apps and files; China’s move toward a comprehensive AI law; AI’s growing presence in film and the need for transparent disclosure; Merriam-Webster naming “AI slop” Word of the Year; capital rotating toward AI-heavy chip markets; how AI may reshape work more than remove it; and the often-overlooked materials supply chain—copper and specialty metals—powering the entire buildout. All on AI in Flow.","author_name":"Six & Flow"}