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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

In a friend of the court filing by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a dozen former employees accuse OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots and betraying the mission that originally attracted them to the organization.

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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

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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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

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APRIL 11, 2025

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

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

: Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?

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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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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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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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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

My role at Google was eliminated.

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APRIL 11, 2025

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

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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APRIL 11, 2025

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APRIL 11, 2025

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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