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.
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.
Google is moving to build AI into all of its products, CEO Sundar Pichai told the company’s annual developers conference earlier this month.
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.
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.