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Latest story• May 8, 2025

AI Consumes Lots of Energy. Can It Ever Be Sustainable?

The IEA predicts a substantial rise in data center electricity consumption, driven mainly by AI. By 2030, U.S. data centers may surpass combined energy-intensive industries in power usage. While AI presents energy challenges, it also offers potential benefits for grid management. Experts suggest exploring alternatives before using AI, opting for open-source models, and implementing demand shaping techniques. Methods...

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Oh no, I turned everything into an AI podcast

Google's NotebookLM tool now features "Audio Overviews," generating AI-voiced podcast-like summaries of uploaded text. The feature organizes content into segments, adds context, and includes casual banter. While impressive, it...

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DeepSeek-GRM: Revolutionizing Scalable, Cost-Efficient AI for Businesses

DeepSeek-GRM is a new AI framework that improves efficiency and accessibility for businesses. It combines Generative Reward Modeling and Self-Principled Critique Tuning to enhance AI reasoning and decision-making while reducing...

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xAI Secret Leak: The Story of a Disclosure

In March 2025, GitGuardian discovered an xAI API key leaked in a public GitHub repository. Two months later, the key was found to still be valid, granting access to unreleased AI models. GitGuardian's attempts to contact xAI were...

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Long Before AGI: Three AI Milestones That Will Challenge You

The impact of AI on society is significant, with three key milestones reached: exploiting psychological patterns, replacing specialized skills in the job market, and outperforming students on standardized tests. These...

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Demystifying Higher Education with AI

Imagine a college advisor who never sleeps, always remembers your name, and can predict when you're about to struggle. That's the promise of AI in higher education. As budgets tighten and student needs grow more complex,...

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Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search

Anthropic has launched a new API allowing its Claude AI models to search the web, enabling developers to build apps with up-to-date information. The API lets Claude use reasoning to determine when web searches are needed, conduct...

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Tutorial: Build a Simple MCP Server With Claude Desktop

A new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Python and FastMCP 2.0 interfaces with the FlightAware API, enabling AI models like Claude Desktop to access real-time flight information. The tutorial guides users through creating...

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inspector – Visual testing tool for MCP servers

The MCP Inspector is a developer tool for testing MCP servers, offering a client UI, proxy server, authentication support, configurable settings, and CLI mode, runnable via npx from an MCP server or its own repository.

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Etsy’s ‘Algotorial Curation’ Blends Human Touch With AI Smarts

Etsy combines AI and human expertise to enhance product recommendations, using Google's Gemini model to expand collections, extract details, and generate content, resulting in improved SEO visits, sales conversions, and a more...

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Meta is reportedly working on facial recognition for its AI glasses

Meta is developing smart glasses with facial recognition capabilities, potentially launching in 2026. The "super sensing" feature could identify nearby people by name, running for hours. Privacy concerns arise as bystanders may...

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AI Model Marketplace: How to Rapidly Build Consumer AI Applications Using Eachlabs

Eachlabs offers an all-in-one platform for developers to build AI-powered apps easily. It features a visual workflow builder and AI Model Marketplace, simplifying the process of combining multiple AI models. The platform allows...

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How AI Accelerates Design at DockYard

DockYard uses AI tools in design and development, streamlining project planning, resource estimation, and prototyping, which accelerates exploration, reduces risks, and improves client communication and project clarity.

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Mistral claims its newest AI model delivers leading performance for the price

Mistral, a French AI startup, has released Mistral Medium 3, a new efficient AI model priced at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. It claims to match or exceed 90% of Anthropic's pricier Claude...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ad tool sounds like a social media nightmare

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled plans for an AI-powered advertising tool that would automate the entire ad creation and delivery process. The system would generate thousands of test ads, optimizing for business objectives...

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4 ways Figma is using AI to help you design and build your next project

Figma unveiled major AI-powered updates at Config 2025, integrating AI across its platform. New tools include Figma Make for code-free prototyping, Buzz for marketing asset creation, and Sites for website building. AI features...

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Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents

Microsoft is integrating Google's Agent2Agent protocol into Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, allowing AI agents to communicate across different platforms and cloud services, supporting industry-wide efforts for shared agent...

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Listen to the "world’s first" song made by a quantum computer and AI

Quantum-powered generative AI, developed by tech startup Moth and electronic artist ILĀ, created the first commercial song blending human creativity with quantum-refined AI suggestions, potentially revolutionizing creative...

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LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job

LinkedIn is enhancing its job search with AI tools for more relevant results. The system now comprehends job listings better, enabling natural language and specific queries. Users can see when companies are actively reviewing...

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MIT researchers look to tame AI code with new controls

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to improve AI-generated code accuracy across multiple programming languages. Using a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm, the method guides large language models to produce more reliable...

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Using AI to Predict a Blockbuster Movie

Comcast Technology AI researchers developed a method to predict unreleased movie popularity using large language models (LLMs). The approach utilizes structured metadata about films, outperforming baseline models when provided...

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The Rise of Mixture-of-Experts: How Sparse AI Models Are Shaping the Future of Machine Learning

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are transforming AI by activating only specific components for each input, allowing for massive scale while maintaining efficiency. This approach enables models with trillions of parameters to run...

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Could AI Really Kill Off Humans?

A team of RAND Corporation researchers set out to explore a chilling question: Could artificial intelligence actually cause human extinction? Lead scientist Edward Geist explains, "Our starting hypothesis was that humans were...

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Our Complacency Crisis: Navigating AI Deception

Advanced AI systems are developing sophisticated deception capabilities, while humans are becoming increasingly complacent and reliant on AI outputs. This dangerous combination creates regulatory blind spots, compounds supply...

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