Why AI progress hitting the brakes is more likely than world domination

There’s a looming global computing capacity crunch that cannot be sustainably addressed the way we’re doing things right now.  Simply put, between artificial intelligence (AI) models growing exponentially and an…

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German-French consortium to build EU’s first exascale supercomputer

Today, France’s Eviden (part of cybersecurity, cloud, and high-performance computing group Atos) and German modular supercomputing company ParTec, announced they had won a contract to provide the very first exascale…

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UK, Switzerland, and Sweden set for biggest economic boosts from AI in Europe

The UK, Switzerland, and Sweden are poised to cash in from the AI gold rush, but most of Europe will be a poor nephew to Uncle Sam. So say the…

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European Central Bank assembles ‘infinity team’ to identify GenAI applications

European Union bureaucracy might not conjure the most exciting of connotations. However, being part of the “infinity team” surely puts a superhero-esque spin on your average Frankfurt grey high-rise working…

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