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Your power bill went up 76 percent because of AI data centers. The federal grid watchdog said the spike is not reversible.
PJM's federal monitor said the 76 percent Q1 wholesale-price spike across 13 states is not reversible. ChatGPT now reads bank accounts via Plaid. Medicare opened its first AI-agent payment channel. OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over Siri.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. Your power bill went up 76 percent because of AI data centers. The federal grid watchdog said the spike is not reversible.
If you live anywhere from Chicago to Richmond, your wholesale electricity cost just went up 76 percent and the federal monitor for your grid said it is not coming back down.
2. OpenAI gave ChatGPT permission to see inside your bank account. It connects to about 12,000 banks through Plaid.
If you have ever asked ChatGPT a money question and answered "I do not know my balance," that gap is now closed - and so is the gap on the other side, because the model now reads the same data your bank does.
3. Starting July 5, the voice calling your parent on Medicare about their evening medication might be an AI named Flora.
If you have a parent or grandparent on Medicare with one of the six covered chronic conditions, by Independence Day weekend an AI voice agent named Flora (or a competitor named something else) can be the one calling at 7pm to remind them about their evening medication - and the…
4. Your iPhone's Siri-to-ChatGPT exclusivity ends June 8 — and OpenAI is weighing a lawsuit against Apple over how it got there.
If you bought an iPhone partly because it would let you talk to ChatGPT through Siri, the deal underneath that feature is now in legal-action territory and the exclusivity that made ChatGPT the default Siri option is about to end on June 8 anyway.