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The Growing E-Waste Footprint of GenAI
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to the proliferation of electronic devices and systems, resulting in an alarming increase in electronic waste (e-waste). GenAI, in particular, requires ...Full Article
NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’
Editor's Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. ...Full Article
GenAI in the 2024 Elections: Expectations vs. Reality
With this being an election year, concerns have long been raised about the potential threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the integrity of the electoral process. According to a ...Full Article
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements ...Full Article
Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom
A boom in AI has created a problem for the organizers of the NeurIPS conference, which is considered an essential machine-learning research conference. The sheer number of registrations has overwhelmed ...Full Article
Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry
Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service. At the same time, Google gave customers a ...Full Article
Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA
A small team of OpenAI executives participated in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit today. The company’s CEO Sam Altman and CPO Kevin Weil most frequently replied ...Full Article
UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced this week it received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund ...Full Article
OpenAI Develops New AGI Benchmark to Assess Potential Risks of Advanced AI
As artificial intelligence systems grow more advanced, there is increasing concern over models capable of modifying their own code and enhancing their abilities without human oversight. Such AI agents, ...Full Article
Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories
The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable ...Full Article
