Climate · October 2026Kudos level: Bravo
Clean Power Carried Texas Through a Record-Heat Summer Without Blackouts
Texas set a peak electricity demand record of 91.3 gigawatts this summer, yet the grid stayed steady with no repeat of past conservation alerts. Clean power supplied a majority of ERCOT grid power at some point on 94 percent of summer days.
Source: Environmental Defense Fund
South Korea's Government AI Insisted a Rule Abolished in 2012 Was Still in Effect
South Korea's government AI services returned wrong answers to simple questions, and rated them highly reliable. AI Government24 told a reporter that sole proprietors must file interim VAT returns, a rule abolished in 2012, and marked the claim 'high confidence.' It also got the 2025 income tax filing period wrong, again with high confidence. The National Tax Service's own chatbot gave the correct answer, and different government AI services gave conflicting answers to the same questions.
Source: Seoul Economic Daily