A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure Bluesky: @mims , @justinhendrix , @carlquintanilla , and @jessefelder . Forums: r/techn...
Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more practical and cost-effective
For many tasks in corporate America, it's not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day X: @wsj . LinkedIn: Christopher Mims and Max Keenan Blu...
Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations
and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights. — www.404media.co/ap...
GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe
Time spent on the platforms is declining in every age group, though is most pronounced in younger generations … Stefano Santinelli : AI floods our feeds - and social media's ceiling is showing. — 📊 ...
The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks
With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch X: @ericjhonsa , @emollick , @mims , @mims , @mims , @mims , and @m...
A look at efforts by startups, such as Positron and Groq, to develop inference-focused chips that aim to be more energy efficient and performant than Nvidia's
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Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations
www.ft.com/content/99b6... #ai #entryjobs Christopher Mims / @mims : Great piece, data do not support “AI is taking all the jobs” — “AI may be part of the picture but other factors, including econom...
Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's “center of gravity” will move to the US where the “talent pool is right now”; 70% of its staff is UK-based
Amazing that Bumble's staff weren't charmed by their CEO's approach.... [images] Christopher Mims / @mims : “Dating apps are feeling like a thing of the past” says [checks notes] CEO of a dating app ...
A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months
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A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : LinkedIn: Costa Samaras , Danielle Meister Lurie , and Christopher Mims LinkedIn: Costa Samaras : I led a multi-year research project where we built and flew ...