The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect Sunday, 19 January, with the release of three Israeli women who had been held hostage since the Hamas attack in October 2023. The Israelis released 90 Palestinians in return.
Category: 28 January 2025
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WHY CRYPTO TOKENS?
Why do decentralized permissionless crypto networks use tokens? We’ll provide some brief answers in this explainer.
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AI SPARKS BOOM IN GAS-FIRED ELECTRIC POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION
The raging demand for electricity among AI’s U.S. data centers is inspiring the construction of at least 80 new electric utility plants by the end of this decade, all running on natural gas, the Financial Times reported.
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USING CHATGPT YIELDS AS MUCH CO2 AS 250 TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS
Bitcoin mining isn’t the only major tech polluter. Each month, queries to ChatGPT alone result in AI data centers emitting as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as more than 250 jetliner trips across the Atlantic Ocean, according to a study by KnownHost, a website host.
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OPENAI UNVEILS PLATFORM DESIGNED TO EXTEND HUMAN LIFE
OpenAI has collaborated with start-up Retro Biosciences to create the GPT-4b micro, an AI that will help researchers re-engineer proteins to improve stem cell production.
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NVIDIA, MAYO CLINIC PARTNER TO CREATE DIGITAL TWINS, AI ROBOTS
In recent years, the Mayo Clinic has installed robotic labs to run its pathology tests that detect the presence of diseases in patients, usually by running chemical assays or examining microscopic images of blood or tissue samples.
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AI AMPLIFIES OUR BIASES AND MAKES THEM WORSE, STUDY SAYS
When people confront subtle biases in AI, we’re 32.72 percent more likely to align our own ideas with the bias; when people we deal with show those same biases, we’re influenced by them only 11.27 percent of the time, the study found.
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OPENAI, ORACLE, SOFTBANK FORM AI JOINT VENTURE
Three key players in AI have come together in “Stargate,” a joint venture that will pool at least $100 million to build U.S. data centers and the energy infrastructure to power them.
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CHINA’S DEEPSEEK MAKES CLAIMS THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE AI MARKET
Chinese start-up DeepSeek is offering a free AI assistant that it claims to have trained for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus OpenAI and other Western developers have spent to create their models.
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CHINESE FUSION REACTOR SETS TIME RECORD
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor set a record for the length of time a fusion reactor has been able to maintain a plasma.
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