A big Chinese telecom company, China Telecom, recently announced that it has created two new artificial intelligence (AI) models using chips made entirely in China. This is a significant step in China’s mission to become self-sufficient in technology, especially as the United States tightens its rules on selling advanced chips
In a world where tech companies are fighting hard to hire the best talent in artificial intelligence (AI), Google has made a jaw-dropping decision by bringing back Noam Shazeer. Shazeer is a big name in the AI field, known for co-authoring a key research paper that sparked the AI revolution.
Imagine a world where complex weapons and military parts can be made quickly, cheaply, and with less waste. This is not science fiction—it’s happening right now thanks to 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing. This groundbreaking technology builds physical objects, layer by layer, using a digital design. It’s already being
For years, people have suspected that their phones are secretly listening to their conversations. A new leak has just made those fears look even more real. A recently leaked pitch deck from a company called Cox Media Group (CMG) shows that big tech companies might be using a service to
In 2005, futurist Ray Kurzweil made a bold prediction: by 2045, machines would be smarter than humans. He called this moment the “singularity.” It sounded like science fiction, but Kurzweil’s ideas caught the attention of many, especially in Silicon Valley. Now, Kurzweil is updating his prediction. In his new book,
San Francisco is taking a big stand against a troubling trend involving artificial intelligence (AI). The city’s attorney, David Chiu, has filed a lawsuit against 16 websites that let people use AI to create fake nude images of women and young girls. Here’s what’s happening: The Lawsuit Explained On August
Big Tech’s dream of advancing AI is coming with a huge, often overlooked cost: electricity. The amount of power that companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple use to run their data centers is staggering—so much so that their energy consumption is now on par with entire countries. A recent
In the age of AI, data centers are becoming the “factories of the future,” according to Chris Miller, author of Chip War. He suggests that the global competition for AI supremacy is shifting from ‘chip wars’ to ‘cloud wars,’ as countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia invest
Microsoft’s push into AI, particularly with ChatGPT, is causing a massive spike in energy use and carbon emissions. Training advanced AI models like GPT-4 has consumed an enormous amount of electricity, equivalent to the yearly needs of over 1,000 U.S. households. As Microsoft’s data centers power up to support these