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Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

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Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americans. The trio sent letters to the heads of Google, Microsoft, […]

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The Ambient Brain: Why Amazon’s Alexa+ Is the AI We’ve Been Waiting For

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For the better part of a decade, digital assistants have been stuck in a state of arrested development. Devices like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have become glorified voice-activated egg timers and music players, adept at simple, one-shot commands but […] The post The Ambient Brain: Why Amazon’s Alexa+ Is the AI We’ve Been Waiting

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More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate

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Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissions More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” about AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to “democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.” The letter,

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