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Feeding AI’s appetite: Who pays the price for power-hungry data centers?
With the grid facing strain and more energy-hungry giants sitting down at the table, ensuring fair contribution isn’t just sound policy — it’s absolutely essential.Politics - The Hill - November 7 -
Trump’s Second Presidency Could Mean AI Chaos, or a Flurry of Innovation
As the AI revolution advances, critics and lawmakers have proposed safety restrictions and guardrails. Trump’s team says some of these barriers will fall.Business - Inc. - November 7 -
‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot
Nous Chat gives users access to its large language model (LLM) Hermes 3-70B, a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 3.1.Tech - VentureBeat - November 7 -
Upstart’s return to ‘growth mode’ helps send the AI lending stock higher
Loan volumes picked up 43% on a sequential basis.Business - MarketWatch - November 8 -
Google’s Next AI Just Leaked, and It Can Take Over Your Computer
Here’s what to know about Jarvis.Business - Inc. - November 7 -
How Samsung fell behind in the AI boom leading to a $126 billion wipeout
Samsung Electronics has fallen behind long-time rival SK Hynix in the area of high-bandwith memory.Business - CNBC - November 8 -
TSMC to close door on producing advanced AI chips for China from Monday
World’s biggest contract chipmaker acts to ensure it is in line with US restrictions on Chinese access to latest processorsWorld - Financial Times - November 8 -
Forget the Nanny, Check the Chatbot. AI May Soon Help With Parenting
The AI revolution means new startups can address some unexpected markets, like easing the challenges of caring for kids.Business - Inc. - November 8 -
Anthropic, Amazon, and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to the Defense Department
Government workers will be able to sift through classified information up to the ‘secret’ level using AI.Business - Inc. - November 8 -
I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars
Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.Tech - Wired - November 9 -
AI groups rush to redesign model testing and create new benchmarks
Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language modelsBusiness - Financial Times - November 11 -
The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were
The rapid growth of ‘AI slop’ – content created by artificial tools – is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real. My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent ...World - The Guardian - November 9 -
Here are 3 critical LLM compression strategies to supercharge AI performance
How techniques like model pruning, quantization and knowledge distillation can optimize LLMs for faster, cheaper predictions.Tech - VentureBeat - November 9 -
When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic
Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our world ...Politics - The Hill - November 10 -
‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?
A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm . As anyone who has tried ...World - The Guardian - November 11 -
Petition urges Trump to make Musk special adviser on AI
Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), an artificial intelligence (AI) advocacy group, is calling on President-elect Trump to make Elon Musk a special adviser on AI in his second ...Politics - The Hill - November 11 -
Why OpenAI Is Trying New Strategies to Deal With an AI Development Slowdown
As quantum leaps in AI capabilities get harder to pull off, the market leader is pivoting to progress. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Grok AI may be opening to more X users.Business - Inc. - November 11 -
Amazon steps up effort to build AI chips that can rival Nvidia
Big Tech group’s Annapurna Labs is spending big to build custom chips that lessen its reliance on market leaderBusiness - Financial Times - November 12 -
China's Alibaba releases AI search tool for small businesses in Europe and the Americas
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for small businesses in Europe and the Americas to source supplies.Business - CNBC - November 12 -
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son: AI will become ‘super wisdom’ for the happiness of all humanity
In gunmetal grey jacket and a Jobs-esque black turtleneck, Masayoshi Son has a heartening message for the world.Business - MarketWatch - November 12 -
On lame-duck AI bill, Congress shouldn’t push too far
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to bring a commercial and economic rebirth for the United States and its allies, but Congress is negotiating a lame-duck bill to regulate the AI ...Politics - The Hill - November 12 -
Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free
Alibaba's new AI coding assistant, Qwen2.5-Coder, challenges GPT-4o with state-of-the-art code generation, offering free and open-source AI tools to developers worldwide despite U.S. chip ...Tech - VentureBeat - November 12 -
SoundHound diversifies its business beyond cars, but the hot AI stock retreats
The voice-based AI company is becoming less concentrated, as its top customer made up a far lower portion of overall revenue relative to a year before.Business - MarketWatch - November 13