Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks at the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024. David Swanson | Reuters But emails written by Nvidia senior staff and widely shared inside the company suggest that Musk presented …
On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo, for which Sam Altman serves as chairman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which has yet to generate any revenue, went public through a special purpose acquisition company called AltC Acquisition Corp., founded and led by Altman. Under the ticker symbol “OKLO,” shares were …
Quantum computing has a number of advantages over other technologies in terms of accelerating our progress with reducing climate change. For example, it can solve optimization problems significantly faster than regular computers. This makes it possible to do things like real-time climate predictions and designing materials on tiny scales. In these ways and others, quantum …
Kathryn Van Nuys Amazon Web Services For climate startups focused on cutting-edge science and in need of costly high-performance computing power, just producing a proof of concept (POC) is a long slog. That’s where Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) new Computer for Climate Fellowship comes in. A joint initiative with UNESCO, it funds entrepreneurs working in …
In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. The IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022 …
HSBC has partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate climate mitigation and resilience through financing and support for companies in the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability (GCR-Sustainability) programme. GCR-Sustainability is a validation programme for companies with solutions available on Google Cloud that help customers achieve goals including carbon emission reduction, increased sustainability in value chains, and processing of …
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the assembly during the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on political and business leaders to prioritize …
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty Images That’s a large stake, especially considering that Musk sold tens of billions of dollars worth of …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A romance that united sports and music fans, a celestial wonder that drew millions of eyes skyward and a spiritual homecoming for some Native American tribes were just some of the moments that inspired us and brought joy in 2023. In a year that saw multiple wars, deadly mass shootings, …
A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech’s expanding water footprint. Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside, recently published a study investigating the resources needed to run buzzy generative AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Ren and his colleagues found that …