AI Weekly: War Hits Data Centers, Meta's Model Stumbles, and the Death of the Programmer

AI Weekly Roundup: War Hits Data Centers, Meta's Model Stumbles, and the Death of the Programmer It's Monday, which means it's time to pour a coffee and sort through everything that happened in AI last week. And what a week it was — we had drone strikes on AI data centers, Meta quietly shelving a flagship model, a New York Times Magazine cover story declaring the end of programming as a profession, and OpenAI inching toward ChatGPT erotica. There's a lot here. Let's get into it. 🪖 The AI Cold War Just Got Hot — Literally The most underreported AI story of the week isn't about a model benchmark. It's about actual drone strikes on data centers . Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have spent the last couple of years planting massive AI infrastructure in the Persian Gulf — Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia — largely because Gulf sovereign wealth funds agreed to co-finance the staggering cost of AI buildout. Smart financing deal. Geopolitically awkward timing. After the US-Israeli strike on Iran ea