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Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

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OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in IndiaThe OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount of energy required by human development.“People talk about how much energy it takes to […]

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New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says

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Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demandThe amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country’s current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence,

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If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?

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Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?How will we be fed? That’s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all this talk about whether or not artificial intelligence will end up taking over all of our jobs.Formidable though the technology appears, similar fears

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Taalas is replacing programmable GPUs with hardwired AI chips to achieve 17,000 tokens per second for ubiquitous inference

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In the high-stakes world of AI infrastructure, the industry has operated under a singular assumption: flexibility is king. We build general-purpose GPUs because AI models change every week, and we need programmable silicon that can adapt to the next research breakthrough. But Taalas, the Toronto-based startup thinks that flexibility is exactly what’s holding AI back.

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VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex: Achieving 98.7% Financial RAG Accuracy with a New Open-Source Vectorless Tree Indexing.

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Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline is easy; building one that doesn’t hallucinate during a 10-K audit is nearly impossible. For devs in the financial sector, the ‘standard’ vector-based RAG approach—chunking text and hoping for the best—often results in a ‘text soup’ that loses the vital structural context of tables and balance sheets. VectifyAI is

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Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns

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New subscription features on app for gay and bisexual men come with a price tag – from $109.99 a month in Australia to $349 in the USFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAmid dating app fatigue and concerns over the safety of its

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A Coding Guide to Instrumenting, Tracing, and Evaluating LLM Applications Using TruLens and OpenAI Models

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In this tutorial, we focus on building a transparent and measurable evaluation pipeline for large language model applications using TruLens. Rather than treating LLMs as black boxes, we instrument each stage of an application so that inputs, intermediate steps, and outputs are captured as structured traces. We then attach feedback functions that quantitatively evaluate model

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Forget Keyword Imitation: ByteDance AI Maps Molecular Bonds in AI Reasoning to Stabilize Long Chain-of-Thought Performance and Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training

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ByteDance Seed recently dropped a research that might change how we build reasoning AI. For years, devs and AI researchers have struggled to ‘cold-start’ Large Language Models (LLMs) into Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) models. Most models lose their way or fail to transfer patterns during multi-step reasoning. The ByteDance team discovered the problem: we have

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These are the nine best US laptop backpacks for hauling tech gear on the go – tested

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Your $1,000 laptop deserves a protective home on the road. A tech journalist and frequent traveler recommends his nine favoritesThe four best personal-item backpacks that fit under US airline seatsSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsWhether you’re flying across the country on vacation, meeting with an important

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What would happen to the world if computer said yes?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no …Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?After years of computer saying no, and giving us all migraines and premature grey hair, I’m starting

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