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.
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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.
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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.
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CREATORS: HAVE FUN WITH AI WHILE IT LASTS
I’ve been writing plays since high school and college, and I was a Vassar College Powerhouse Theatre playwriting apprentice way back in the day (summer of 1990).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THIS AI CAN READ YOUR MIND WITH A BRAIN SCAN AND MINIMAL TRAINING
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have smartened up an AI “brain decoder” so now it can work faster and with more versatility.
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MUSK’S xAI WILL HIRE “THOUSANDS OF TUTORS” THIS YEAR TO TRAIN GROK AI
Elon Musk’s xAI will bring on thousands more "AI tutors" this year, three unnamed employees told Business Insider.
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GOVERNMENTS ARE SUDDENLY MUCH LESS INTERESTED IN AI SAFETY
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” U.S. vice-president J.D. Vance told a European conference earlier this month.