Big Tech data center buildouts have led to $5.4 billion in public health costs
By ars TECHNICA Published on Feburary 24, 2025 Big Tech’s growing use of data centers has created related public health costs valued at more than $5.4 billion over the past five years, in findings that highlight the growing impact of building artificial intelligence infrastructure. Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy […]
Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI
By Futurism Published on Feburary 21, 2025 If there’s one throughline linking us to our ancestors at the birth of industrial society, it’s the anxiety of automation. Back then it was the robber barons pushing the mechanized loom — and now it’s kids in their 20s founding tech startups. Meet Mercor: the […]
Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published on Feburary 21, 2025 Watching Elon Musk and his band of young acolytes slash their way through the federal government, many observers have struggled to understand how such a small group could do so much damage in so little time. The mistake is trying to situate […]
JD Vance thinks AI will uplift Americans — It’s more likely to erase them
By THE HILL Published on Feburary 21, 2025 At the recent Paris AI Summit, JD Vance attempted to paint a hopeful picture of artificial intelligence. The vice president reassured Americans that AI isn’t meant to replace them. Instead, it promises to make them stronger, more productive, and, ultimately, happier. It’s a nice sentiment — if […]
Analyzing wealth distribution effects of artificial intelligence: A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach
By Cell Published on January 13, 2025 This study explores the often-overlooked influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on wealth distribution. Using a continuous-time heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model, we investigate AI’s impact on production technology as a form of biased technological progress. Our findings highlight a temporal dichotomy in AI’s effects on wealth inequality: […]
Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time
By WIRED Published on January 08, 2025 I spent an entire day of CES wearing a little yellow bracelet. To the unsuspecting nearby humans, it probably looked like a fitness tracker. But the whole time, this yellow Pioneer wearable from Bee AI recorded everything around me. It wasn’t storing audio like a typical […]
Transit systems turn to AI-powered cameras to catch drivers who block bus lanes
By npr Published on December 31, 2024 KENILWORTH, N.J. — If you’re the kind of driver who parks in the bus lane to run a quick errand, you might want to think twice. The nation’s biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. The […]
In a first, surgical robots learned tasks by watching videos
By The Washington Post Published on December 30, 2024 They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate surgeries and more. While patients lie unconscious on the operating table, robotic arms and grippers work on their bodies at […]
OpenAI expands lobbying team to shape AI regulation
By Computing Published on June 14, 2024 OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, is expanding its lobbying team to influence legislation aimed at regulating AI technology. The San Francisco-based startup told the Financial Times that it has grown its global affairs team from just three at the beginning of 2023 to 35 currently, with […]