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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans.
In an interview with Indian Express, Altman acknowledged that evaporative cooling in data centers once made water usage a real concern but said that is no longer the case, calling internet claims of 17 gallons of water per query "completely untrue, total
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An AI strategist used Claude Code to reverse engineer his robot vacuum and control it with a PlayStation controller, but it accidentally gave him control of thousands of similar devices spread all across the world. Read more ›
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On March 2, the justices will hear their second major Second Amendment case of the Supreme Court’s current term. United States v. Hemani asks whether Congress may make it a crime for an “unlawful user” of marijuana to possess a gun. If you are a lawyer trying to guess how the Court will rule in […] Read more ›
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The Galaxy S26 Ultra hasn't launched yet, but this creator is already showing off what the cameras can do. Read more ›
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The Trump Administrations' new sweeping tariffs for all American imports could end up hurting American companies and benefitting their international competition at the same time, thanks to existing tariff carve-outs and rising material costs for U.S. producers. Read more ›
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History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks. Read more ›
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Xbox fans had been anticipating the retirement of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer for years, but what most hadn't expected was the departure of Xbox president Sarah Bond too. For many outside the company, Bond seemed like Spencer's natural successor, a deputy of sorts. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft CFO Amy Hood clearly didn't […] Read more ›
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Popular tourist spots in Mexico were caught up in a wave of retaliatory violence after drug lord "El Mencho" was killed. Read more ›
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Entire families sheltering in their homes, afraid to go outside. Children getting their lessons on iPad screens. Pregnant women skipping doctors’ appointments and considering home birth. A pervasive sense of confusion and terror — a feeling that “nothing is safe.” These may sound like scenes from 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools and workplaces […] Read more ›
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I'm an American who gave up my dream career in the United States to move to Spain and become a freelancer. The cons sometimes outweigh the pros. Read more ›
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Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, has responded to Trump's calls for the company to fire Susan Rice from its board as it bids for Warner Bros. Read more ›
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Violence erupted in Puerto Vallarta and other parts of Mexico after the government killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Read more ›
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Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000. Read more ›
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My dad died young at 56 and never got to retire. The lessons he taught me changed my views on retirement and how I'm planning for my financial future. Read more ›
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Starting today, the Apple Sports app on the iPhone is available in dozens of additional countries across the Caribbean and Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Peru, and others. Apple Sports first launched in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. in February 2024, and it later expanded to Europe and Mexico. The app shows scores, stats, standings, upcoming games, and more for a... Read more ›
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The national trust charter institution would consolidate custody services under a single framework under federal oversight. Read more ›
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Giving the algorithm your written input could be on the way, as could custom emoji reactions. Read more ›
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After recently confirming the global launch date for the Xiaomi 17 and Xiaomi 17 Ultra, the company has now revealed that the Xiaomi Pad 8 will also debut at the same launch event. The phones and tablet will also debut in India on the same date. The Xiaomi Pad 8 will see its global and India launch on February 28. The company confirmed that it will be powered by the... Read more ›
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A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI's remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his... Read more ›
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Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it's one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem -- in fact, it could even cloud it. From a report: In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).... Read more ›
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China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff "Lafufu" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which... Read more ›
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects "human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks" from AI, and believes most work involving "sitting down at a computer" -- accounting, legal, marketing, project management -- will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will soon be as easy as "creating a podcast... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.' Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: You wear them at work, you wear them at play, you wear them to relax. You may even get sweaty in them at the gym. But an investigation into headphones has found every single pair tested contained substances hazardous to human health, including chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminization of males. [...] Researchers say that while individual... Read more ›
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Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this week warning that AI is about to displace millions of white-collar workers in the U.S. over the next 12 to 18 months, a wave he has taken to calling "the Fuckening." Yang cited a conversation with the CEO of a publicly traded tech company who said the firm is cutting 15% of its... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. "I still can't believe I'm writing this: as of today, my full-time job at Meta is AI Builder," he wrote. Guedj has... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2013, scientists unveiled the first lab-grown burger at a cost of $330,000. By 2023, the FDA approved cultivated chicken for sale. The price had dropped to around $10-$30 per pound, and over $3 billion in investor money had poured into more than 175 companies developing meat grown from animal cells instead of slaughtered animals. The promise is straightforward: real meat, no slaughter required.... Read more ›
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OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Google and Meta are leveraging superior distribution to close the gap, and its product roadmap is dictated by whatever the research labs happen to discover rather than by deliberate product strategy. The company... Read more ›
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