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AI’s search for more energy is growing more urgent (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/17/2024 - 11:05Google's big week was a flex for the power of big tech (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 12/16/2024 - 13:30AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 12/16/2024 - 12:53How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy
The internet loves a good neologism, especially if it can capture a purported vibe shift or explain a new trend. In 2013, the columnist Adrian Wooldridge coined a word that eventually did both.
Bluesky has an impersonator problem (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 12/11/2024 - 10:22How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 12/04/2024 - 11:35Search firm Exa wants to use the tech behind large language models to tame the wildness of the web
A startup called Exa is pitching a new spin on generative search. It uses the tech behind large language models to return lists of results that it claims are more on point than those from its rivals, including Google and OpenAI. The aim is to turn the internet’s chaotic tangle of web pages into a kind of directory, with results that are specific and precise.