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Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
Financial Times: Energy-thirsty AI threatens tech giant’s ambition of reaching ‘net zero’.
‘Let’s not go overboard’ on worries about AI energy use, Bill Gates says
FT: Tech leader says power-hungry AI systems are spurring a boom in clean energy.
Influencer shut down her AI clone after disturbing chats arose
Caryn Marjorie released a digital version of herself. She shut it down eight months later.
Just five stocks power US markets to big gain
Financial Times: Some investors worried a few ‘megacap’ tech companies too influential.
Spark gets go-ahead for surf lagoon data centre
Auckland's data centre boom continues, with the Dairy Flat project given the green light.
All eyes are on Nvidia's stock, so what's been going on?
Nvidia shares lost billions in market value, but concerns may be short-lived.
Nvidia share slide erases $816 billion in market value
Financial Times: Chipmaker’s shares have fallen 15% since Thursday,
Editorial: Data centre deal shows potential future for New Zealand
OPINION: Could NZ's economic future lie in storing other country's data?
Ka-ching: NZ Super Fund cleans up as AI star Nvidia becomes world's most valuable firm
But will it end in tears? A couple of cautious voices emerge.
OpenAI insiders warn of a ‘reckless’ race for dominance
New York Times: Staff call for protections, allege 'cavalier attitude'.
AI firms seek big profits from ‘small’ language models
Financial Times: Big Tech firms address concerns about running costs, copyright liability.
Copilot+ PCs: Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on a laptop
The AI will have a 'photographic memory' of a person’s virtual activity.
Melinda French Gates resigns as co-chair of Gates Foundation
Financial Times: Decision to leave comes three years after divorce from Bill Gates.
iPhone payment options: Judge grills Apple exec
Court hears if Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles in apps.
Pandemic-era winners suffer $2.5 trillion fall in market value
Financial Times: Top 50 biggest stock gainers hit by painful decrease after lockdowns.
Biden lauds new Microsoft centre on site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed
'You kidding me?' Biden told the crowd of about 300, who clapped and cheered loudly.
‘Hallucination detection’: AI adopters pull ahead but many company bosses in a funk
A 'tipping point' as more professionals upskill and leaders wonder how to embrace AI.
Microsoft profit up 20% amid AI push, Google parent pays first dividend
Pair soar where Meta struggled.
How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war
Financial Times: Microsoft’s move latest sign huge firms are scooping up expertise.
How Anna Mowbray chose her AI partner for latest start-up
Zuru cofounder weighed AI options from Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in Government computers
Financial Times: US firms sidelined in Beijing bid to boost local capability.