The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building a gas-fired power plant in the state with a capacity of up to 7.65 gigawatts that could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year, making it the dirtiest in the country.<br /& [...]
Researchers show that an AI model trained on synthetic programming tasks alone can beat larger competitors. A key finding: task variety matters more than the number of solutions.<br /> The article Microsoft-Tsinghua team trains 7B coding model that beats 14B rivals using only synthetic data appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
Pinterest is fighting back against the onslaught of AI slop that is increasingly clogging up its platform following complaints from users. From now on, you’ll be able to see when image Pins that appear in your feed have been either generated or modified using AI. When users click on an image Pin in close-up they’ll see an “AI modified” label in the bottom left-hand corner.<br /> In a [...]