A new analysis from SEO firm Graphite, reported in Axios, reveals that AI-generated articles have not yet overwhelmed the web. Among 65,000 English-language articles sampled monthly from 2020 to May 2025, human-authored pieces fell from 95% to 52%, while AI-generated content surged from near-zero to 48% following ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch. The two categories briefly crossed parity in late 2024 but have since stabilized near 50-50. Yet quality signals remain firmly human-weighted: 86% of top-ranking Google results and 82% of articles cited by leading chatbots are still human-written. “At this point, it’s a symbiosis more than a dichotomy,” UCLA professor and AWS VP Stefano Soatto told Axios. The findings ease fears of model collapse from recursive training data while highlighting an optimistic path forward: collaborative human-AI creation can preserve authenticity and reader trust.
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A new wave of small scale, grassroots Bitcoin mining is gaining momentum as affordable, open-source hardware like the BitAxe Gamma brings participation back to individuals. Priced under $140 and consuming just 8-10 watts, the palm-sized miners allow anyone to mine on the Bitcoin network using nothing more than a USB port or standard wall outlet. When paired with a pool such as the zero-fee Parasite Mining Pool, which blends solo mining autonomy with share-based reward smoothing, small-scale miners can receive block rewards while enjoying far less payout variance. Using Parasite pool, “If your individual BitAxe finds the block you get 1 whole BTC,” explains the “The Art of Stacking Sats,” highlighting how the model keeps rewards in the hands of smaller operators. Running ten units costs roughly $10 monthly in electricity, empowering hobbyists to build decentralized hashpower and strengthen network resilience at minimal cost.
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US solar power generation surged 36 percent year-over-year through the first nine months of 2025, offsetting more than 80 percent of rising electricity demand that had initially sparked fears of grid strain from data centers, according to Energy Information Administration data as reported by John Timmer. Early-year demand spiked nearly 5 percent, briefly boosting coal use 23 percent, yet the subsequent slowdown limited total growth to just 2.3 percent while coal’s increase fell to 13 percent. “Solar has now passed hydro, and is likely to pass wind within the next two years,” Timmer writes. Combined utility- and small-scale solar now produces over 90 percent of wind’s output, pushing renewables plus nuclear to 40 percent of the grid. In California, utility-scale solar has nearly doubled in five years, cutting natural gas reliance 17 percent despite an 8 percent demand rise, enabling batteries to smooth evening peaks. These trends signal grid innovation and resilience as new use cases spike demand.
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Nic Carter, in part two of his Bitcoin and quantum series, warns that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer capable of running Shor’s algorithm could arrive by the early 2030s and break Bitcoin’s elliptic-curve security in hours. Roughly one-third of all bitcoin, 6.7 million BTC, valued at over $579 billion, is already vulnerable through exposed public keys in legacy P2PK, reused addresses, and Taproot key-path spends, including most of Satoshi’s untouched coins. “The emergence of a CRQC would threaten Bitcoin existentially,” Carter writes, citing potential theft by state actors or chaotic forks. Breakthroughs in computing error correction, gate fidelities exceeding 99.99%, and $10 billion poured into quantum firms in 2025 have sharply shortened timelines. Governments and NIST target full ECC deprecation by 2035. Carter urges the bitcoin industry to begin deliberate migration planning now, embracing proactive adaptation to preserve the network’s future.
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