Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era
 Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era

This sponsored article is brought to you by Applied Materials.At pivotal moments in history, progress has required more than individual brilliance. The most consequential breakthroughs — such as those achieved under the Human Genome Project — required…

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49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 data centers, high demand plus a regulatory limbo equals a dim situation

Around 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are finding out in the worst way that they might become literally powerless come May 2027, as provider NV Energy is poised to redirect the spice flow elsewhere, according to an article on…

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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 
 The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 

When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than 10 years before, when she was in her early 20s. It did in fact return…

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This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.
 This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.

  Every probe humanity has sent to Venus has died. The Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 minutes and two hours on a surface where the temperature exceeds 460 degrees Celsius. Their electronics, designed to endure heat that would melt lead, stil…

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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?
 AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assist…

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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
 AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.  A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…

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UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $220M to tackle the growing inference bottleneck

UK company Fractile has today raised a $220M Series B as it continues to build next-generation inference hardware for AI. The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with partici…

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Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with $650M raise

A London-based AI startup set up just months ago, which believes it’s pursuing the fastest path to surpassing human intelligence, has today come out of stealth, having raised over $650m at a $4.65bn v…

Google reportedly in talks with SpaceX to launch its orbital data centers — partnership could mark a historic turning point and boost upcoming IPO

Google is reportedly in talks to make Elon Musk’s SpaceX its launch partner for its orbital data centers as part of its Project Suncatcher initiative.
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Isomorphic Labs lands $2.1BN investment

Sir Demis Hassabis today hailed a multi-billion-dollar investment in the startup he founded which was spun out of Google DeepMind and focuses on leveraging AI to help drug discovery as a “massive vote…