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The Register: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank

Jun 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/asian_tech_news_roundup/ Source: The Register Title: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank Feedly Summary: PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; Predicted APAC datacenter shortage; And more! Asia In Brief Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.… AI Summary and Description:…

Slashdot: AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025

May 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0049238/ai-could-consume-more-power-than-bitcoin-by-the-end-of-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The increasing energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) could surpass that of Bitcoin mining, posing significant environmental concerns as AI’s demand on electrical resources grows. Research indicates that by…

The Register: Oracle’s $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI’s Abilene, Texas DC to handle

May 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/oracle_openai_40b/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle’s $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI’s Abilene, Texas DC to handle Feedly Summary: 400,000 of Nvidia’s GB200 Superchips are gonna need a bit more than 1.2GW of datacenter capacity Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs to…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

May 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory feature

May 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory feature Feedly Summary: Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI: Starting today [April 10th 2025], memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

May 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/20/ai-energy-footprint/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. Feedly Summary: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart try to pull together a detailed account of AI energy usage for…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

May 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

The Register: Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

May 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/google_details_plans_for_1/ Source: The Register Title: Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain Feedly Summary: Switching voltage allows search giant to switch up power delivery system Google is planning for datacenter racks supporting 1 MW of IT hardware loads, plus the cooling infrastructure to cope, as AI processing…

Slashdot: Even the US Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water

Apr 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1556239/even-the-us-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Even the US Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlights significant environmental impacts of generative AI systems, particularly in terms of water usage and energy consumption for cooling data centers. Companies’ lack of…

The Register: AI to more than double global datacenter electricity use by 2030, say global policy wonks

Apr 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_double_datacenter_energy/ Source: The Register Title: AI to more than double global datacenter electricity use by 2030, say global policy wonks Feedly Summary: No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks Analysis Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 – slightly surpassing Japan’s total consumption…

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