Tag: AI

AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Summary Researchers from Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI warn that synchronous AI training workloads create large, rapid swings in power demand that can stress…

Summary Google has published a report claiming its Gemini apps use just 0.24 watt‑hours of electricity and 0.26 millilitres of water per median‑length text prompt. The company contrasts that figure…

Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Summary Scale AI researchers describe a phenomenon they call “Search-Time Data Contamination” (STC): when search-enabled AI agents access online sources during evaluation…

Waymo Granted First Permit To Begin Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC Summary Waymo has been granted its first permit by the New York City Department of Transportation to test autonomous…

Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year Summary Google published a new analysis (PDF) reporting a roughly 33x reduction in the energy…

Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post spotlights a booming cottage industry of low-effort, high-volume AI-generated videos — dubbed “AI…

Nvidia Release Massive AI-Ready Open European Language Dataset and Tools Summary Nvidia has published Granary, a large open-source multilingual speech corpus and accompanying models and tools to accelerate high-quality speech…

James Cameron Struggles With Real-World Horrors for ‘Terminator 7’ and New Hiroshima Movie Summary James Cameron tells CNN he is finding it difficult to write Terminator 7 because real-world developments…

Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Summary Researchers at Scale AI have identified a problem they call “Search-Time Data Contamination” (STC): search-enabled AI agents can retrieve benchmark datasets…

Waymo Granted First Permit To Begin Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC Summary Waymo has been granted its first permit by the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing…