The AI Incident Database logged 362 incidents in 2025, a 55 percent rise from 2024.

A Guess ad in Vogue using AI-generated models drew documented backlash over realism and jobs.

A misconfigured database exposed 300 million messages from 25 million Chat and Ask AI users.

The DOE unveiled a program to add 5 GW of nuclear capacity via plant uprates and reactor restarts.

SMR developers hit NRC licensing milestones as TVA, Google, and Meta sign deployment deals.

EIA: SMRs run 300 MW or less as DOE and the military back a widening pipeline of designs.

NEI: 94 US reactors run near a 92 percent capacity factor, supplying about 20 percent of power.

Vogtle, the largest US nuclear plant, anchors Georgia's grid as a rate deal holds base rates to 2028.

US nuclear momentum builds with the first NRC reactor restart and new advanced reactor permits.

IEA: data centre electricity rises from 415 TWh in 2024 to about 945 TWh by 2030.

WRI: 4,500-plus US data centers use 176 TWh, about 4.4 percent of national electricity.

S&P Global: data center grid-power demand rises 22 percent in 2025 and nearly triples by 2030.

Google revealed as the owner of the $8B Project Pegasus data center in LaGrange, Georgia.

Sprott: uranium demand up 28 percent by 2030 and nearly double by 2040 amid a supply deficit.

Silver Institute: 46.3 Moz deficit in 2026 as investment demand offsets falling industrial use.

Uranium output trails demand as prices hold above $80 and the metal joins the US critical minerals list.

J.P. Morgan sees silver averaging $81 in 2026 as a structural supply deficit persists.

McKinsey: generative AI could add $4.4T annually, with marketing and sales among top value areas.

Stanford 2026 AI Index: 88 percent adoption, under 10 percent fully scaled, inaccuracy top risk.