The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence—particularly the training of large-scale models that are used to power many of today’s widely used applications—is driving renewed growth in electricity demand. A new report released today from EPRI and Epoch AI forecasts that training a leading model could require more than 4 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2030—enough to power

AI-powered academic agent streamlines research workflows, enhances citation accuracy, and supports scholars with discipline-specific insights. Resea AI, a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence agents, has officially launched its AI-powered academic agent. The platform aims to address long-standing inefficiencies in scholarly research workflows by combining deep literature intelligence with end-to-end task execution from topic selection

The latest headline-grabber is Hume’s Evi 3, a voice cloning tool capable of mimicking a person’s tone, accent, emotional nuance, and personality — all from just a 30-second audio sample. It can virtually resurrect celebrity voices like Ricky Gervais or Audrey Hepburn. While that opens doors for exciting creative and accessibility applications, it raises pressing

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Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

Generative AI (genAI) systems are blackmailing, sabotaging, and self-replicating themselves to avoid constraints — and researchers warn that this behavior represents chilling signs of self-preservation instincts in technology companies are racing to unleash. Controlled tests now show the systems, including AI agents, engaging in self-preservation tactics in up to 90% of trials. One group of

In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met with Derek Ashmore. Derek is a career-long IT consultant. He told us that a career as an independent can be fulfilling and lucrative, if you are prepared to continually learn, and share your knowledge. He said that the joy of his career has been

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Nvidia has developed a generative AI (genAI) model to help robots make human-like decisions by analyzing surrounding scenes. The Cosmos Reason model in robots can take in information from video and graphics input, analyze the data, and use its understanding to make decisions. Cosmos Reason, announced on Monday,  helps robots “think like

Apple Intelligence will lean heavily into Apple’s existing work with App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. The app services App Intents provide will be combined with Apple Intelligence and supported by what your device knows about where you are, what you need and the things you usually do. (It will all take place privately and on