Big Tech's Nuclear Bet Collides With Storage Crisis as AI Agents Transform Work

Big Tech's aggressive investment in nuclear power to fuel AI is colliding with America's lack of permanent storage for its 2,000 metric tons of annual nuclear waste—making the crisis urgent. Meanwhile, AI agents are evolving from simple chatbots to orchestrated multi-agent systems capable of handling complex white-collar tasks, promising workplace transformation but raising new risks. Scientists are simultaneously warning that unchecked synthetic biology experiments could pose existential threats to all life on Earth.