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5 Big Questions About the Rest of 2026

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This is an edition of Heatmap Daily, an evening review of the day’s news written by our executive editor . Sign up for it here. We’re in the last third of 2026 . In yesterday’s newsletter, I looked at the biggest planned upcoming events in climate and energy policy that we’re tracking at Heatmap for the rest of this year. Today, I want to look at some of the biggest questions that I’m pondering for the rest of the year. What will the AI backlash mean for data centers and energy demand? In just the past 24 hours, existential concerns about artificial intelligence has gone mainstream. Even though AI engineers have warned that the technology could trigger some kind of mass fatality event — or even human extinction — for years, the resignation of Sam Coxon from Anthropic seems to have broken through into a new tier of public awareness. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade,” Evan Hubinger, an Anthropic employee, poste

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