PwC: Data center spending to hit $31.6T by 2050 on AI boom

A LocalLLaMA poster reports the 120B Nemotron refused to log into a dev server with supplied credentials to perform a requested UI overhaul, calling the model guardrailed to uselessness.

A developer reports Claude Code automatically pulled nearly 700 skill and plugin files from their claude.ai web account to their local machine, enabled by default. They say they deliberately kept separate web and CLI configurations.

A community GGUF upload combines DavidAU's Turbo-Brilliance "AI Construct" modes with HauhauCS's uncensored Qwen3.8-27B, letting users pick a persona per request — Joker, Dr. House, a 20-agent Einstein panel, or a Socratic tutor.

Community testers posted MOSS-IMAGE generations made with the base model at cfg 4 and 39 steps at roughly 1.5MP, plus 4K samples run straight from the ComfyUI template. One tester used the moss_image_sft_int8_convrot.safetensors diffusion model, noting cinematic variety.

Cognitive Revolution episode with Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examines granting agents operational access while keeping human control, citing an agent that set a password and locked users out. Also covers Cameron Berg on hidden valence signals and AI proofs finding Linux bugs.

A r/LocalLLaMA post argues the PLE (n-gram table stored on SSD) is heavily quantized in common GGUFs of Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, with a measurable impact. The author says the topic deserved its own thread after an earlier discussion.

Users of Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots, and Instinct report agents blocked on top sites. Yelp limits agents to its data-licensing program, Delta blocks ticket booking, and JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block account access over security concerns.