An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to “explode” in the coming years, so wanted to Read more…
Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters. Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon “AI brain fry,” a state of mental exhaustion stemming “from the excessive use or Read more…
In many rural areas, America’s online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion “rural delivery push” last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery Read more…
Arm unveiled its first self-developed data center chip, the AGI CPU, designed for handling agentic AI workloads. The new chip was built in partnership with Meta and manufactured by TSMC. Other customers for the new chip include OpenAI, Cloudflare, SAP, and SK Telecom. The new chip, called the AGI CPU, Read more…
Anthropic is testing a new Claude feature that lets users send a request from their phone and have the AI carry it out directly on their computer, such as opening apps, using a browser, or editing files. The move follows the viral spread of OpenClaw earlier this year, which has Read more…
Will there be an AI-optimized programming language at the expense of human readability? There’s now been experiments with minimizing tokens for LLM efficiency, without any concern for how it would serve human developers. Could we get our AIs to go straight from prompt to an intermediate language that could be Read more…
Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas. Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called “Terafab,” will be built near Tesla’s campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project Read more…