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Pentagon officials boast of using AI to generate Congress reports
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (496+ words) Gen AI. mil has been a Pentagon success story Senior Pentagon officials have publicly encouraged employees at the Department of Defense to use its internal generative AI tool, Gen AI. mil, to help them get routine, administrative work done more…...
Quote of the day by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: 'There is no compression algorithm for experience"
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (361+ words) At a time of heavy automation and job losses, enterprises must also consider how useful individuals with real, practical experience might be Andy Jassy has enjoyed a long-running and successful career in the technology industry, being a part of the…...
Chinese researchers may have solved optical computing's biggest headache
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (366+ words) Optical computing gets its own version of a flight simulator Optical computing has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional electronic systems struggling with increasingly large-scale AI and deep learning workloads. Chinese researchers have now proposed a digital twin model…...
Saily says removing friction is the next big battle for democratizing travel e SIMs
14+ hour, 14+ min ago (1127+ words) Removing friction by making installation easier No matter how cheap you could make a week or two away in the sun, staying connected was a sticking point for years with travellers relying on expensive local SIMs or pricy roaming charges....
'Resistance training was the core of health and fitness when we started, and it remains the core today': Fitness app Fitbod's founder on why strength is king in gyms " and the reason behind the boom in chatbots like the Google Health Coach
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (1453+ words) We sit down with Allen Chen It would be fair to say that AI and the rise of chatbots have kicked off a colossal gold rush for fitness apps. The combination of generations' worth of training knowledge packed into a…...
US Army plans data center campuses with power generation
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (395+ words) Military officials want data centers the community accepts, and create jobs The US Army is exploring plans for new data center developments while attempting to avoid the community resistance that has increasingly confronted major technology companies. Officials say future projects…...
Microsoft's AI ambitions came with hidden costs " investors are not happy
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (464+ words) Microsoft's biggest AI bet yet has landed in court Microsoft is facing a class action lawsuit from shareholders who say the company failed to disclose the financial fallout of its AI spending properly. The complaint argues investors were given only…...
Google, Anthropic, Salesforce and others pledge nearly $1 billion on new environmental push
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (275+ words) Coalition of companies commit to buying future carbon removal credits Frontier, a coalition focused on carbon removal whose members include Google, Anthropic and Salesforce, has announced a new $915 million Growth Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) after four years of work on…...
Workers need to be involved in these conversations: Amazon engineers to be investigated after criticising companys AI data center buildout " Amazon "may or may not take action based on what we find.
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (366+ words) Amazon is investigating employees critical of data center construction Amazon is investigating a group of employees who attended council meetings discussing a year-long moratorium on planned data center constructions. Five employees, who work as engineers, criticized the "all-costs-justified AI build…...
How Dell Pro 5 and Dell Pro 7 laptops support AI software for business teams
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (456+ words) Sponsor Content Created With Dell AI is no longer an emerging technology " it already supports a wide range of everyday business tasks. The new Dell Pro 5 and Dell Pro 7 professional laptop ranges include numerous models with integrated AI acceleration hardware,…...