🌍 AI’s energy appetite collides with climate hopes
At COP30, boosters pitched AI as a climate helper-smarter grids, better farming, faster disaster warnings. Skeptics shot back that soaring compute and water use could swamp the gains… honestly, both sides have a point.
A new AI Climate Institute was touted to steer tools toward real-world emissions cuts, but critics warned the data center boom remains the elephant in the room.
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🔧 Big Tech’s DIY chips are back in fashion
Reuters Breakingviews says Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are doubling down on custom AI silicon to slip Nvidia’s gravity and fine-tune cost-performance. Sounds tidy… until the power-efficiency math nudges them right back to Nvidia.
ASICs look tempting for inference at scale, but training frontier models is still brutally expensive-keeping Blackwell-level GPUs in the driver’s seat, for now.
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💸 OpenAI’s trillion-dollar vibes, bigger questions
Sam Altman is floating a path to $100B revenue… sooner than folks expected. The Daily Upside stitches together user growth, eye-watering compute commitments, and a possible IPO that reads bold-maybe a bit breathless.
Profitability chatter pops up, then ducks, as reports highlight inference burn. It’s all momentum until margins-like sprinting on a treadmill you’re still building.
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🚀 Bezos resurfaces with Project Prometheus
Computerworld reports Jeff Bezos is co-CEO of a secretive AI startup aimed at physical-world systems-manufacturing, materials, spacecraft. Big pivot from chatty bots to stuff-that-moves.
Analysts are split: visionary bet or expensive mystery box. If it’s “AI that touches atoms,” timelines stretch and the checkbook gets heavier… which, well, he has.
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☁️ Google rolls out a faster AI weather model
The Verge says Google’s new WeatherNext 2 lands in Search, Gemini, and Pixel forecasts, promising quicker, more accurate predictions without the supercomputer slog. Neat trick, if it holds up.
Under the hood, a Functional Generative Network spins out many scenarios in one go-less physics simulation, more pattern savvy. Forecasts up to 15 days, hourly steps… ambitious.
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