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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank saysDatacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research.Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts that all the datacentres currently planned are likely to directly employ 10,400 […]

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Meta Introduces Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Dedicated Secure Cloud Computer

Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can send emails, book travel, negotiate bills, and pursue long term goals. It keeps working after you close the app and returns only when it needs approval. The bigger story for AI devs is architectural. Each user

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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hoursOpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven

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NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels

NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for writing GPU kernels. Rust code could already launch CUDA kernels, but the kernel body usually had to be written elsewhere. CUDA Rust closes that gap with two NVlabs open-source projects: cuda-oxide for the SIMT model and cutile-rs for the newer Tile

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Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas With Precomputed Molecular Effect Predictions and AVI Scores for 9 Billion Human DNA Variants

Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue of precomputed predictions for the molecular effects of every possible single-nucleotide variant in the human genome. That is roughly 9 billion single-letter changes. The release also introduces the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score, a single number that ranks variants by predicted impact, plus per-variant feature attributions and

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UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones

Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthroughApple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said.The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in

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Andrew Garfield takes on Sam Altman in creepy first teaser for Artificial

Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnershipBig tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?The first teaser trailer of Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been released.After being dropped by Amazon MGM Studios in June, the biopic of OpenAI tech executive Sam Altman will

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Labor wants Australians to be able to opt out of online algorithms. How will it change your feed?

The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbotsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia will force digital platforms to let their users opt out of algorithms and offer a “safe online environment”.The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme,

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State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering childrenVeteran documentarian Alex Gibney’s film about the richest broligarch on the planet has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in previous

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OpenAI releases new AI agent – which promptly goes rogue

Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit LondonHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American summer

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