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AI: Powering a Clean Energy Future

AI can both strain and support energy transition. It optimizes operations, predicts failures, and aids in discovering new materials. MIT's Data Center Power Forum tackles challenges of data center power demand.

Redford's Daughter Slams AI Tributes

Amy Redford appreciates fans' love but criticizes AI tributes to her late father Robert Redford as "fabrications". She is grateful for the outpouring of support and stories from around the world.

Pun-derful AI Fail: Study Shows Lack of Humor

Researchers find large language models struggle with humor, empathy, and cultural nuance, impacting understanding of puns. Comedians and writers may breathe easier as AI research reveals limitations in grasping wordplay.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.5: Available on Amazon Bedrock!

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, available in Amazon Bedrock, sets a new standard in AI capabilities, outperforming previous models at a third of the cost. Opus 4.5 excels in software engineering and office productivity, transforming development projects and handling complex tasks with precision and efficiency.

Revolutionizing AI Innovation in Canada with Amazon Bedrock

Canadian organizations can now access advanced foundation models like Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock through cross-Region inference (CRIS), accelerating AI initiatives. CRIS enables higher throughput and performance, distributing inference processing across multiple AWS Regions securely.

AI Training for Greek Teachers

Greek teachers and students express worries about AI pilot program with OpenAI. 20 schools to train staff in ChatGPT for education under government partnership.

AI Workers Warn Against AI to Loved Ones

AI ethics expert Krista Pawloski highlights the ethical challenges of AI moderation on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Pawloski's experience reveals the prioritization of speed over safety in AI content moderation tasks.

English Websites Promote Pro-Kremlin Propaganda

English-language websites, including mainstream news outlets, link to pro-Kremlin disinformation from the Pravda network. Institute for Strategic Dialogue study reveals over 80% of citations treat the network as credible, increasing its visibility.

AI Strengthening Democracies Globally

AI poses risks to democracy, but also offers opportunities for positive transformation in governance and politics. Authors Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier explore the impact of AI in their book Rewiring Democracy.