Regulators and the AI industry need to protect Americans from the potential dangers of AI, but the country also needs to invest at least $32 billion annually to ensure that China doesn’t surpass the U.S. in advancing AI technology, according to a proposal by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators.
Category: 28 May 2024
DATA CENTERS’ POWER DEMAND SPIKES UTILITIES’ STOCK PRICES, GRID CONCERNS
Utility companies are starting to feel the pressure from AI data centers that gobble more and more electricity 24 hours every day of the week. Those centers are contacting utilities to make sure the extra power they’ll need in the future will be there.
UKRAINE USES U.S.-MADE ATACMS TO HIT RUSSIAN COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Ukrainian forces used advanced U.S.-provided missiles to hit a Russian air defense force communications center in the latest escalatory action that has essentially been given the green light by the West.
GOOGLE UNVEILS PLAN TO REORGANIZE PRODUCTS AROUND AI
Google is moving to build AI into all of its products, CEO Sundar Pichai told the company’s annual developers conference earlier this month.
AI ROBOTS INVENT AND BUILD NEW LASERS
Six labs scattered around the world and coordinated by an AI have devised, then built and tested, a material that emits laser light more efficiently than any created by human researchers.
NEW AI MAPS MEDICAL DIAGNOSES
An AI created at the University of Illinois’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology does more than just spot tumors and other signs of illness in medical images.
THE SCOURGE OF SOYBEAN OIL
Soybean oil, the most commonly used oil in the U.S., contains high levels of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids
ABUNDANT ELEMENT COULD HELP MAKE CO2 A VALUABLE FEEDSTOCK
Carbon dioxide—CO2—contains a valuable commodity: carbon monoxide (CO), which is used as a basis for making plastics and diesel and jet fuels.
PUTIN WOULD CONSIDER CEASEFIRE DEAL ALONG CURRENT BATTLE LINES
Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to accept a ceasefire at current battlefield lines, but has the stamina and ability to fight in Ukraine for as long as it takes for the Kremlin to achieve its objectives, four Russian sources told Reuters last week.
WASHINGTON DIGS IN DEEPER ON ITS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
Judging by developments over the past several weeks, it would appear that nothing going on in Washington matters quite as much as defending Israel no matter what the Jewish state does.