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The data center boom in the desert

“In the extreme case, at the end of the century, that’s pretty much all of winter,” says Sean McKenna, executive director of hydrologic sciences at the Desert Research Institute, a research division... Read more »

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

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Read more »

Everything you need to know about estimating AI’s energy and emissions burden

Despite the fact that billions of dollars are being poured into reshaping energy infrastructure around the needs of AI, no one has settled on a way to quantify AI’s energy usage. Worse,... Read more »

AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come

The AI data center also promises to transform the state’s energy future. Stretching in length for more than a mile, it will be Meta’s largest in the world, and it will have... Read more »

AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do

Their findings are the latest in a growing body of research demonstrating LLMs’ powers of persuasion. The authors warn they show how AI tools can craft sophisticated, persuasive arguments if they have... Read more »

The real impact of AI on your organization

About the speakers Jim RowanHead of AI, Deloitte As a Principal and Head of the AI Practice at Deloitte US, Jim Rowan collaborates with external technology firms, clients, and Deloitte’s business leaders... Read more »

AI strategies from the front lines

About the speakers Kevin Bolen, Principal, Advisory – Head of AI Transformation, Strategic Planning Investments, KPMG Kevin Bolen is a Principal in KPMG’s US Advisory practice and serves as the Leader for... Read more »

Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?

While Community Notes has the potential to be extremely effective, the difficult job of content moderation benefits from a mix of different approaches. As a professor of natural language processing at MBZUAI,... Read more »

Inside the story that enraged OpenAI

At the time, few people beyond the insular world of AI research knew about OpenAI. But as a reporter at MIT Technology Review covering the ever‑expanding boundaries of artificial intelligence, I had... Read more »

The Download: the first personalized gene-editing drug, and Montana’s Right to Try experiment

Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby with a deadly metabolic condition. The rapid-fire attempt to rewrite the child’s... Read more »