The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

- The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble Block confirmed! Meta’s smart glasses in Delhi aren’t just viral pranks; they’re covert surveillance nodes turning citizens into data points for AI-driven harassment. Meanwhile, hyperscalers are burning $1.1T on data centers—AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to justify hardware ROI by 2030. Theoretically safe? Hardly. With ShinyHunters breaching FBI records and AWS training video AI on rat brains, the infrastructure is fracturing. We’re seeing photonics replace copper and humanoid robots entering the cage. Untested is never boring, but when your "human concierge" is actually contractors, trust evaporates. That's journalism from the hull.