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- Time Magazine appears to accidentally publish embargoed story confirming Anthropic Claude 4 Opus
Someone also appears to have published a full scrape of the Time article online on the news aggregator app Newsbreak.
- AI could account for nearly half of data centre power usage ‘by end of year’
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...
- AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention
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’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI
Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.
- How AI is leaving non-English speakers behind
New research explores the communities and cultures being excluded from AI tools, leading to missed opportunities and increased risks from bias and misinformation.
- Enchant launches zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups
Enchant is launching a new zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups, with applications now open for its three-month program.
- Inside Safe-Construct: The AI system built for the world's most dangerous workplaces
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.
- Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?
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.
- Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America
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, as 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...
- Fictional fiction: A newspaper's summer book list recommends nonexistent books. Blame AI
The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were, in fact, actually fictional.
- AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention
This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.
- In Taiwan and China, young people turn to AI chatbots for ‘cheaper, easier’ therapy
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...