Certain AI prompts generate 50x more CO₂ than others | Popular Science
Think twice before you ask an LLM a complex question.
popsci.com
June 19, 2025
Mack DeGeurin
Science & Technology
Phonely’s new AI agents hit 99% accuracy—and customers can’t tell they’re not human
A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine.
venturebeat.com
June 03, 2025
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Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath
"Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.
Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop "sugar-coating" what's coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs."
axios.com
May 28, 2025
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Anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail
One of Anthropic's latest AI models is drawing attention not just for its coding skills, but also for its ability to scheme, deceive and attempt to blackmail humans when faced with shutdown.
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axios.com
May 23, 2025
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
wired.com
May 22, 2025
Molly Taft
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SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program
Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars
theguardian.com
March 07, 2025
Guardian staff and agencies
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