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Forget basketball. Next week's Nvidia GTC is the real March Madness for AI
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (389+ words) As basketball fans gear up for March Madness next week, AI industry watchers turn to their own late-winter frenzy: Nvidia GTC, the annual developer conference of what is now the world's most valuable company. And that's just the first day....
'Proceed with caution': Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly held mandatory meeting to address 'high blast radius' AI-related incident
1+ day, 30+ min ago (567+ words) Elon Musk has weighed in on reports Amazon is addressing recent outages, including one related to AI-assisted coding. Earlier this month, Amazon's website and shopping app were down for some users, with more than 22,000 users reporting an issue, according to…...
This startup is helping tech giants and real estate developers find land for data centers, and using its own GPU cluster to do it
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (427+ words) Acres founder Carter Malloy's two daughters press their faces to a glass window at the back of the office, trying to see the humming machines their father has been raving about'two high'end GPUs tucked into a dark corner. Malloy bought…...
Jensen Huang says the $700 billion AI buildout is just the beginning: ‘Trillions of dollars of infrastructure still need to be built’
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (291+ words) Tech companies are scrambling to keep up with skyrocketing AI demand. And many are investing billions in the buildout of AI data centers, with some estimates placing the combined capital expenditures of the largest firms at up to $700 billion." $700 billion....
Is AI about to take your job? New Anthropic research suggests the answer is more complicated than you think.
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (305+ words) The paper got a lot of attention on social media because the researchers included an eye-catching radar plot-style chart that highlights just how jagged AI's impacts are, especially when it comes to observed exposure. That chart is here: In the…...
'AI brain fry' is real — and it's making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (393+ words) If you're one of the early AI adopters, maybe your brain is totally fried." "The paradox: the more capability you have, the more you feel compelled to use it. The more you use it, the more fragmented your attention becomes....
The AI risk that few organizations are governing
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (476+ words) Most enterprises can tell you how many human users have access to their financial systems. Few can tell you how many AI agents do." In recent years, enterprise AI discussions have centered on workforce disruption, return on investment and the…...
AI can double output. Human biology can’t
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (644+ words) Scott Hutcheson is a Senior Lecturer of Technology and Engineering Leadership at Purdue University and the author of Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Impact. In recent weeks, Accenture made headlines for linking senior managers" promotion prospects…...
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns AI’s hunger for internet comments could degrade the world’s “information ecosystem”
3+ day, 15+ min ago (893+ words) AI won't just reshape work and markets, Joseph Stiglitz says it will quietly rot the information those systems depend on. As large language models (LLMS) scrape our sarcastic Reddit comments and loud marginal voices on extremist forums, the Nobel laureate…...
Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero—not the villain
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (341+ words) Billionaire founder of XPRIZE Peter Diamandis is tired of the doomsday scenarios painted by movies like Terminator or Ex Machina. The engineer and Harvard-trained doctor-turned-entrepreneur is trying to change the narrative with a new $3.5 million Future Vision XPRIZE. Backed by…...