artificial intelligence

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

Albert Wagner

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the ...

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

Mickey Vernon

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind ...

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

Mickey Vernon

Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—­who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998 ...

Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI backing UAE Stargate project

Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI backing UAE Stargate project

John Ray

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event, “Investing in America,” held by President Donald Trump in Washington, April 30, 2025. ...

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2025

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2025

John Ray

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | ...

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

Mickey Vernon

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm ...

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

Mickey Vernon

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world ...

How quantum computing could supercharge Google’s AI ambitions

How quantum computing could supercharge Google’s AI ambitions

John Ray

Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company’s ...

Woman says ChatGPT ‘potentially saved’ life after requesting palm reading

Woman says ChatGPT ‘potentially saved’ life after requesting palm reading

Craig Fedirighi

A woman was left in utter disbelief after what was intended to be a simple AI palm reading turned into ...

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Albert Wagner

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The ...