How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America's Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years
Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona's economy was once dominated by the “five C's”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. X: @b_ai_s and @aicapital_io . Bluesky: @theverge.com X: ...
Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom
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Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner explaining AI hairstyle photos, share how AI changed their work
“It's alarming from a nurse's standpoint, because we don't want to look at our patients as numbers and bodies in a bed.” — www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [images] Bruno J. Navarro / @brunojnavar...
The Wikimedia Foundation says the base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community - especially for the 144 million images …
Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools
stock photographers—the writing is already on the wall, and it's not pretty. https://www.wsj.com/... Anthony M. Scialis / @amssvs : Read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about AI ring...
Adobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008 instances of CSAM, possibly helping to create AI CSAM
The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used …
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used …
Sydney-based Leonardo.Ai, which lets users generate AI images for use in creative industries, raised $31M, and reports its 7M users have generated 700M+ images
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Civitai, where users share AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, announces a $5M seed led by a16z, after launching a “bounties” feature
A16z has invested in Civitai, which a 404 Media investigation has shown profits from the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated porn of real people.