The hidden environmental cost of generative AI and its toll on climate – USA Today
From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI — is fraught the kinds of issues...
Author : Nelli Avetisyan
US debt investors raise alarm over lending standards – The Financial Times
US debt investors have raised the alarm over lax lending standards in credit markets after the unravelling of two companies that just weeks ago were...
Swiss Central Bank on Hold as Tariffs Threaten Slowdown – WSJ
Switzerland’s central bank left its key interest rate at zero Thursday, ending a sequence of six straight cuts, despite the threat of slower growth as...
Alibaba Shares Soar After Hiking AI Budget Past $50 Billion – Bloomberg
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s shares surged to their highest in nearly four years after revealing plans to ramp up AI spending past an original $50...
PODCAST: Human ChatGPT: putting Tyler Cowen to the test
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics who has been described as “the man who wants to know everything”. He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist—but...
Gemini tops the App Store thanks to new AI image model, Nano Banana
Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users...
Inflation, Economic Growth to Highlight Week’s Data
The Federal Reserve last week began cutting rates over fears the labor market has softened sharply, but this week’s economic data could provide an antidote...
ECB’s Cipollone Says Risks to Inflation Are ‘Very Balanced’ – Bloomberg
European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone doesn’t see major threats to inflation in either direction, with interest rates currently well positioned. Europe’s economy...
How to spot a genius – The Economist
Ervin Macic was despondent. While in school he twice won medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad and researched artificial intelligence, trying to speed up how models...
Tether targets $500bn valuation with $20bn private funding round – The Financial Times
Tether is aiming to raise as much as $20bn in a private funding round that would value the operator of the world’s most traded cryptocurrency...