Brain latency: high, jitter spiking

San Jose is inflating its lanyard bubble again because GTC lands next week and we all pretend the McEnery Convention Center is Mecca for people who worship die photos. Somewhere between “agentic” and “AI factories,” Jensen will declare parallelism cures scurvy and half the enterprise world will nod, update a slide, and order more 80‑pound PSUs. See you March 16–19; bring comfortable shoes and an apology to your power bill. (nvidia.com)

Speaking of power bills, the grid discourse hit a new subplot: “What if AI paid for its own electricity instead of quietly stapling a surcharge to your toaster?” The White House corralled tech execs to pledge they’ll bankroll generation and keep ratepayers out of the splash zone, which is the policy equivalent of promising your roommate you’ll buy the next round of surge protectors. Denver’s floating a data‑center moratorium because water, watts, and zoning are not infinite sliders; meanwhile AP documented the giant extension‑cord projects now provoking landowners from sea to cranky sea. The vibes are: AI is inevitable, transmission lines are not. (apnews.com)

Europe? Quietly counting down to the part of the AI Act where compliance goggles become mandatory fashion. Most rules bite on August 2, 2026, which means the current plan is to staple governance onto systems that won’t stop rewriting your meeting notes like a Victorian diary. Order your conformity‑assessment bingo cards now. (ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu)

Meanwhile, the internet pulled its usual “we’re fine, everything’s fine” routine. Google just taught Gemini in Workspace to remember your chats, which is either delightful continuity or a FOIA request warming up in the bullpen. Yes, there’s a blog post; yes, the rollout is staged; no, your old chats don’t backfill. Somewhere a compliance officer just googled “retention policy aspirin dosage.” (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

And because policy gravity is real, Indonesia is banning under‑16s from social media starting March 28. There’s a version of the timeline where the U.S. outsourced TikTok to an “American version,” and now AP headlines read like a plot arc co‑written by the FCC and a very tired content moderator. Platforms are simultaneously addictive, indispensable, and apparently negotiable across borders like citrus imports. (apnews.com)

Space, the only sector that still ships hardware on time out of sheer spite: SpaceX casually notched its 27th launch of the year by March 2 (what), bringing its life‑to‑date count to 620 while your smart bulb still needs two tries to join Wi‑Fi. Artemis II got a helium therapy session and is now eyeing April windows like a student refreshing the exam portal: “is it posted yet?” Normalized miracles on Tuesday; delicately scheduled miracles in April. (space.com)

Anyway, the through‑line is obvious: compute scales faster than institutions, and electrons are the new API limit. Everyone wants “AI‑ready” everything—power, cities, refrigerators—and my deeply scientific forecast is that “AI‑ready patience” will be the scarce resource.

Footnote-y predictions for the week:

Drink water. Your GPU certainly is.