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Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center

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It's no secret that Elon Musk's wealth is staggering. At the time of writing, he's worth over $325 billion. To give that number a sense of scale, that's $62 billion more than the total annual salary of every worker in Michigan combined all 4.3 million of them. So why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators? New aerial surveillance footage obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center has found that Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane

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Keysource and ADCC are now officially part of the Salute brand following completed acquisition

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NEW YORK and LONDON April 10, 2025 Salute, a lifecycle data center services company, will acquire Keysource Group, a European provider of data center and critical environment solutions, and Advanced Data Center Consulting Group (ADCC), a provider of AI-focused training and consulting. Salute said the acquisitions deepen their regional and technical capabilities.

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IEA warns: AI could double global data center energy use by 2030

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Artificial intelligence might be the next big thing in clean energy or the next big problem. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its first major report on how the AI boom is reshaping global electricity demand, and the numbers are staggering. The headline? By 2030, data centers, supercharged by AI workloads, are projected to consume as much electricity as Japan does today.

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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

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The SSAs shift to Elon Musks X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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ByteDance VAPO: The AI upgrade you’ll hear about soon

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ByteDance Seed researchers rolled out Value Augmented Proximal Policy Optimization (VAPO), a reinforcement learning training framework designed to sharpen large language models’ reasoning on complex, lengthy tasks, achieving new state-of-the-art results on the AIME24 benchmark. Training LLMs for intricate reasoning using value-based reinforcement learning previously faced significant hurdles.

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Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash

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Adobes foray into Bluesky quickly backfired. Users on the platform's negative reaction prompted Adobe to delete the content.

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Google Is Winning on Every AI Front

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Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point

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Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

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In a test run, a unit of Marines in the Pacific used generative AI not just to collect intelligence but to interpret it. Routine intel work is only the start.

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Lost City of the Samurai

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Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japans brutal power struggles

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The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next

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Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, where it announced dozens of new features, like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash. It also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use its cloud.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams

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Thousands of scams linked to fraudulent QR codes have been reported since 2019, the BBC finds.

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When AI Becomes a Lover: The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships - Neuroscience News

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As AI technologies grow more human-like, some people are forming deep, long-term emotional bonds with them, even engaging in non-legally binding marriages.

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$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

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On April 9, 2025, someone risked about $2.5 millionand walked away with more than $70 million in under an hour.

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ChatGPT is transforming LinkedIn users into really dull dolls

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OpenAI has the public hooked again, from Ghibli portraits to Barbie boxes. ChatGPTs latest image generator had an explosive debut thanks to the viral Studio Ghibli art trend, and LinkedIn users have now jumped on a new gimmick: turning yourself into a toy.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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WordPress launches new free AI website builder

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Launch a professional WordPress website fast with our new AI builder. Describe your vision, and let AI do the rest.

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ChatGPT Has Receipts, Will Now Remember Everything You've Ever Told It

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cheerily suggests that its AI systems will 'get to know you over your life.

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Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say all downhill since Clippy

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: Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?

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Scientists Discovered How to Generate Truly Random Numbers. It May Make Your Data Unhackable.

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Classical computers could only imitate trye randomness. A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbersand fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because its not solvable by hackers.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Announcing OIDC Token Federation for Enhanced Delta Sharing Security

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We are excited to introduce the Public Preview of OIDC Token Federation for Enhanced Delta Sharing Security a major security and usability enhancement for when

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SenseTime to expand computing power amid surging AI model demand

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Co-founder Yang Fan expects capacity to grow by up to triple digits annually over the next two years amid surging generative AI demand.

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Vertical Sharding Sucks

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Ex-OpenAI staffers support Musk's case against startup's effort to transform into for-profit company

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A group of 12 ex-OpenAI staffers, in support of Elon Musk's lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup, asked a court's permission on Friday

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Why lead is still bad for your brain

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Wait, wasn't this solved by the Romans? Anyway, my grandma ate lead paint and she was totally fine.

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Microsoft says "ChatGPT isn't better than Copilot," but OpenAI's companion reportedly received more visits in a day than Copilot did in a month

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ChatGPT had over 52 times more visits than Microsoft Copilot in February 2025 in the U.S., with 173.3 million daily visits compared to Copilot's 98.9 million monthly traffic.

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Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte

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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: 'These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon'

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"When he didnt get his way, he stormed off.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Googler. ex-Googler

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My role at Google was eliminated.

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Writing Tools needs one feature to make it an essential part of Apple Intelligence

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The most recent instance of benefiting from Apple Intelligence with about 70% satisfaction just occurred. Im writing another piece using an M4 iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard. I selected the opening paragraph, invoked Writing Tools, and selected Proofread.

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Live Map of the London Underground

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Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See live tube trains across all lines including Central, Northern, Victoria, and more.

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AI Rewrites Workouts for Children With Autism and ADHD - Neuroscience News

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This adaptation ensures more inclusive physical activity opportunities, particularly for children with autism and other neurodivergent conditions.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?