Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power.
In a blog post, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to source nuclear energy, aiming to bring the first SMR online by 2030, with more reactors planned by 2035.
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A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks extracted from 43 taxonomies. According to an article in MIT Technology Review outlining the initiative, “adopting…
Microsoft at this week’s Ignite conference unveiled new Copilot Studio features aimed at both expanding the functionality of AI agents created with the application and improving the accuracy of outputs. Copilot Studio was unveiled at last year’s event as a way to customize Microsoft’s generative AI (genAI) “copilot” assistants for different business use cases. Since then, the company has stepped up its messaging around AI agents that…
My fellow Android phone-owners, start your feature-seeking engines: Some significant new security strengtheners on are their way to your device(s) — and quite possibly already there and just waiting to be discovered. Surprise, surprise — eh? But oh, it be true: While we’ve been off gazing at grass and thinking about gibbons (or whatever it…
Let’s be honest: Many Windows PCs don’t have great webcams. The webcam is often an afterthought where manufacturers cut costs when putting together laptops. And, if you have a desktop PC, you might not even have a webcam at all unless you go out and buy one. But you almost certainly have multiple high-quality cameras…
Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The charges, filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and made public on…
The tech and AI landscape became even more interesting on news that former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive OBE’s new firm LoveFrom has hired rock star PR Sarah O’Brien, presumably to lead communications at the firm. They then became way more interesting when Ive confirmed his company is working with Sam Altman’s OpenAI on an AI device. Who is Jony Ive? If you are…