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Study finds AI can slash global carbon emissions
A study from the London School of Economics and Systemiq suggests it’s possible to cut global carbon emissions without giving up modern comforts—with AI as our ally in the climate...
Making group conversations more accessible with sound localization
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Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
The explosive growth of AI-powered computing centers is creating an unprecedented surge in electricity demand that threatens to overwhelm power grids and derail climate goals. At the same time, artificial...
Power play: Can the grid cope with AI’s growing appetite?
As the AI Energy Council gathers, the question hanging in the air is: how do we power the future without blowing the grid. The massive data centres needed to train...
Accelerating scientific discovery with AI
Several researchers have taken a broad view of scientific progress over the last 50 years and come to the same troubling conclusion: Scientific productivity is declining. It’s taking more time,...
How generative AI could help make construction sites safer
Last winter, during the construction of an affordable housing project on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a 32-year-old worker named Jose Luis Collaguazo Crespo slipped off a ladder on the second floor...
How businesses can use local AI models to improve data privacy
Businesses intending to use AI do not have to rely on cloud-based tools like Chat-GPT, which tend to require uploading or sharing sensitive data. Instead, it is now possible to...
Unlocking Performance: Accelerating Pandas Operations with Polars
Polars is currently one of the fastest open-source libraries for data manipulation and processing on a single machine, featuring an intuitive and user-friendly API. Natively built in Rust, it is...