Microsoft has paused or scrapped data center construction projects in Australia, Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. states of Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Tag: AI
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OPENAI IS NOW AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES
OpenAI has closed a $40-billion funding round, the most money ever raised in one round by a tech company.
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DEEPSEEK RECASTS CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY
Since announcing its open-source, world-class, cheap AI in January, DeepSeek has seen its technology restructure China’s AI industry.
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NEW TEST SHOWS WHETHER AN AI IS LIKELY TO CAUSE “CATASTROPHIC HARM”
OpenAI’s engineers have assembled a suite of 75 very hard tests to determine whether an AI is capable of “autonomous machine learning engineering”—in other words, able to rewrite or otherwise modify its own code.
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TODAY’S AI ARCHITECTURE CAN NEVER ACHIEVE AGI, MOST RESEARCHERS SAY
Generative AI, the architecture that has delivered today’s large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, can never be scaled up to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI that matches or outperforms humans’ cognitive capabilities, according to 76 percent of the 475 AI scientists responding to a poll organized by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
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AARDVARK PUTS WORLD-CLASS WEATHER FORECASTS ON YOUR DESKTOP
The “Aardvark” weather forecasting AI will bring to personal digital devices the same world-class forecasts that AI has recently made far quicker and less expensive than has been available, the developers said.
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“INFERENCE” IS THE NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR AI CHIP MAKERS
Nvidia leads the world in making ever more complex and costly chips that train AI models. Now chip makers looking to take a piece of Nvidia’s market share have found a new path to that goal.
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DEEPSEEK STICKS TO RESEARCH, NOT REVENUE-SEEKING
Unlike AI Western developers, Chinese company DeepSeek has reacted to its recent fame and soaring sales by focusing even more heavily on research, not chasing greater and greater revenue.
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ANOTHER CHINESE DEVELOPER CLAIMS AN AI BREAKTHROUGH
Ant Group, the largest Chinese digital payments and financial services group, claims it has used Chinese-made chips to train a large language model AI at a cost 20 percent below that incurred by Western developers such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: THE AGE OF ‘AI ANTI-ABUNDANCE’ IS IN FULL SWING
A breakthrough in creating (gene edited) biological muscle tissue to build flesh robots, and WIRED magazine is growing more concerned about AI white collar job threats…it’s all part of what we’re dubbing the Age of AI Anti-Abundance.