Google, in a race to lead progress in artificial intelligence (AI), will have a better chance of achieving that goal if workers on the project are in the company’s central offices five days a week, Google cofounder Sergei Brin said in an internal memo reported by The New York Times.
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SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA’S AI SURGE
DeepSeek roiled the AI industry and financial markets last month with news of its world-class R1 model made on the cheap. The news set off a tsunami of Chinese investment and focus on the potential of domestic AI.
AI FERVOR REACHES EUROPE
Fourth-quarter earnings among tech companies in the MSCI Europe stock index grew by an average of 5.5 percent, compared to analysts’ forecasts of 0.5 percent.
MICROSOFT CANCELS LEASES ON DATA CENTERS
Microsoft, which had budgeted $80 billion this year to build out its AI infrastructure, has been canceling leases on “a substantial amount of data center capacity,” Bloomberg reported.
DEEPSEEK WILL NOT SLOW DEMAND FOR DATA CENTERS, SUPPLIER SAYS
The kind of cheaper, less energy-intense AI created by Chinese start-up DeepSeek will not slow the headlong demand for AI data centers around the world, according to Schneider Electric, a major supplier of electrical infrastructure to the centers and other industrial sites.
AI BOOM A PUBLIC HEALTH BUST
A newly released study found that AI infrastructure development in the U.S. has increased the costs of treating illnesses tied to the air pollution generated by these facilities.
CREATORS: HAVE FUN WITH AI WHILE IT LASTS
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI SURVEILLANCE ON THE FACTORY LINE, AND TECH ADVANCES FAILING TO SOLVE THE WEALTH GAP
Optifye, a startup building AI-powered camera surveillance infrastructure, has deleted a video showcasing its technology, after the video was excoriated by viewers.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: MICE GIVEN HUMAN “LANGUAGE GENE,” AND AI THAT CAN DESIGN GENETICS ACROSS ALL ORGANIC LIFE
Scientists and experts from UC Berkeley, Arc Institute, UCSF, Stanford University, and NVIDIA, have created an AI model called Evo 2 that they say can design genetic code “across all domains” of organic life.
ALLEN INSTITUTE CLAIMS AN AI MODEL THAT BEATS DEEPSEEK
The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI has announced its new open-source AI competes with or bests DeepSeek’s V3 model and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4-o in several standard benchmark tests.