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No joke: data centers are warming the planet

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (846+ words) Findings of a new study conducted by a group of academics from around the globe have revealed that land surface temperature (LST) increases by 2C (3.6F) on average after the start of operations of an AI data center, an effect detectable up…...

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Microsoft launches its second generation AI inference chip, Maia 200

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (693+ words) Signaling that the future of AI may not just be how many tokens an AI model generates, but how optimally it does so, Microsoft has announced Maia 200, which it described as a breakthrough inference accelerator and inference powerhouse. The AI…...

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Photonic chip vendor snags Gates investment

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (123+ words) Maxwell began writing about technology in 1984, when mainframes ruled the world. Since then he has written for just about every business computing title in the UK, and for a few in the US, covering everything from Artificial intelligence to Zero-day…...

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networkworld.com > article > 4116791 > chinese-ai-firm-trains-state-of-the-art-model-entirely-on-huawei-chips-3.html

Chinese AI firm trains state-of-the-art model entirely on Huawei chips

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (371+ words) Chinese company Zhipu AI has trained image generation model entirely on Huawei processors, demonstrating that Chinese firms can build competitive AI systems without access to advanced Western chips. Followign that listing, Zhipu began collaborating with Huawei on GLM-Image. Huawei's Ascend…...