Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres
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Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts | TechCrunch
Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
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Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.
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Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.
Blackwell” B200 AI chips will take at least three months longer to produce than was planne
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets
Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophes
A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.
Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model
Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall
A Clever Strategy to Distribute Covid Aid—With Satellite Data
The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.