Fri.Apr 11, 2025

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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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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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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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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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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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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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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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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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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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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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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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What can we take away from the ‘stochastic parrot’ saga?

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And we should deal with it.

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It's alive! IBM unveils its most powerful mainframe yet, which it says is fully engineered for the AI Age

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IBM has announced the z17, a new mainframe to address growing AI demands on enterprise infrastructure.

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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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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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Transformer Lab

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Documentation for LLM Toolkit, Transformer Lab

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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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Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?

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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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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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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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Are large language models dyslexic?

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Like millions of Americans, I am dyslexic.

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AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem

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Why clear communicationnot clever promptsis your real AI superpower

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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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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?