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Someone also appears to have published a full scrape of the Time article online on the news aggregator app Newsbreak.

Artificial intelligence systems forecast to require almost as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses todayArtificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of data centre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today. Continue reading...

Humans naturally learn by making connections between sight and sound. For instance, we can watch someone playing the cello and recognize that the cellist's movements are generating the music we hear.

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

New research explores the communities and cultures being excluded from AI tools, leading to missed opportunities and increased risks from bias and misinformation.

Enchant is launching a new zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups, with applications now open for its three-month program.

Every day, millions of workers step onto construction sites—arguably some of the most hazardous environments in modern industry. Despite years of safety protocols, equipment upgrades, and training programs, construction continues to rank among the top industries for workplace injuries and fatalities worldwide. For years, we've asked: Could artificial intelligence help? So far, the results have been mixed.

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energyIt is a warehouse the size of 12 football pitches that promises to create much-needed jobs and development​ in Caucaia city, north-east Brazil​. But it won’t have shelves stocked with products. This vast building will be a datacentre, believed to be earmarked for TikTok​, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app​, ​a​s part of a 55bn reais (£7.3bn) project​ to expand its global datacentre infrastructure​.As the demand for supercomputer facilities rises, fuelled by the AI boom, Brazil is attracting more and more tech companies. The choice of Caucaia is no accident. Several undersea cables carry data from the nearby capital of Ceará state, Fortaleza, to other continents. The closer to the cables, the greater the traffic capacity and the lower the latency, or response time, between two points on the internet network. Continue reading...

The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were, in fact, actually fictional.

This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.

Experts say there is huge potential for AI in the mental health sector, but there are risks of turning to technology, rather than human beings when in distressIn the pre-dawn hours, Ann Li’s anxieties felt overwhelming. She’d recently been diagnosed with a serious health problem, and she just wanted to talk to someone about it. But she hadn’t told her family, and all her friends were asleep. So instead, she turned to ChatGPT.“It’s easier to talk to AI during those nights,” the 30-year-old Taiwanese woman, tells the Guardian. Continue reading...