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Stephen Shankland

@stshank
313 posts
2025-08-22
“The per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds.” At long last, some hard data on generative AI power use (and water use & CO2 emissions). Google research paper also says energy use dropped 33x in last 12 mo.: https://cloud.google.com/... #AI
2025-08-22 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent

an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query:  — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV)  — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent  — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops)  —  blog: cloud....

“The per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds.”  —  At long last, some hard data on generative AI power use (and water use & CO2 emissions).  Google research paper also says energy use per prompt dropped 33x in last 12 months: cloud.google.com/blog/product... …
2025-08-22 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent

an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query:  — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV)  — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent  — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops)  —  blog: cloud....

2025-08-15
OpenAI spending ambition beggars the imagination. “You should expect @OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on data center construction in the not very distant future,” Sam Altman tells @inafried https://www.axios.com/... #AI
2025-08-15 View on X
The Verge

Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout and confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink

Over dinner, OpenAI CEO's addressed criticism of GPT-5's rollout, the AI bubble, brain-computer interfaces, buying Google Chrome, and more.

OpenAI spending ambition beggars the imagination. “You should expect @OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on data center construction in the not very distant future,” Sam Altman tells @inafried https://www.axios.com/... #AI
2025-08-15 View on X
Axios

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really for sale, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still talking like the future belongs to him, a week after the rollout of the company's latest model raised …

2025-04-09
Amusing that @instagram iPad app is a scoop. I got tired about 10 years ago of wondering why they didn't have one. Props for HDR photo support (still ahead of every other social media) but wake me up when IG displays photos in full-screen glory on laptops. https://www.engadget.com/...
2025-04-09 View on X
The Information

Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more “risk” to take advantage of a TikTok US ban or disruption

Something that could have been easily spun up in a weekend a decade ago is only finally happening now because they see opportunity to steal market share [embedded post] X: Zac Hall...

2024-09-27
The fight between @WordPress and @wpengine just got orders of magnitude uglier, with the latter's paying customers now unable to update their site plugins (which is to say secure their websites). WordPress statement: https://x.com/...
2024-09-27 View on X
The Register

Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support

disrupting essential work for #WordPress users, agencies, freelancers, and plugin developers. Please read: https://wpenginestatus.com/... Brian Gardner / @bgardner : My heart is br...

2024-09-26
The fight between @WordPress and @wpengine just got orders of magnitude uglier, with the latter's paying customers now unable to update their site plugins (which is to say secure their websites). WordPress statement: https://x.com/...
2024-09-26 View on X
The Register

Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support

WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …

2024-08-31
So sad to see AnandGech shutting down.  Piles of good (if gorpy) chip coverage over the years.  Consolation prize: contra usual practice in this situation, the existing site will remain on the web. https://www.anandtech.com/...
2024-08-31 View on X
AnandTech

AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely

Ryan Smith, with some very sad news:  —  It is with great sadness … Shawn Knight / TechSpot : AnandTech ends its 27-year run in online tech publishing John Callaham / Neowin : The ...

2024-08-30
So sad to see AnandGech shutting down.  Piles of good (if gorpy) chip coverage over the years.  Consolation prize: contra usual practice in this situation, the existing site will remain on the web. https://www.anandtech.com/...
2024-08-30 View on X
AnandTech

AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech.

2024-05-21
A good look at Alphabet's X “moonshot factory” and the difficult growing pains it and its projects go through — more of a focus on financial success these days, plus Google looks more like a conservative incumbent than out-of-the-box innovator. https://www.bloomberg.com/... #Google
2024-05-21 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, which is carving out a path to spin off projects as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation

more of a focus on financial success these days, plus Google looks more like a conservative incumbent than out-of-the-box innovator. https://www.bloomberg.com/... #Google Max Chafk...

2024-03-13
Fascinating (to me anyway) details on how Facebook builds its data centers, including how crditical optimizing everthing is to get consistent high-speed communications.  350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs today and the equivalent of 600,000 H100s on the way.  Interesting how that compares to the blob of glup between your ears.
2024-03-13 View on X
DatacenterDynamics

Meta details its two new data center scale clusters, both containing 24,576 Nvidia H100 GPUs that the company is using for AI workloads like training Llama 3

Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics :

2024-03-02
The techno-legal engineering contortions at Apple right now in the EU is a thing to behold. Trying to kill web apps in Europe, which would have advantaged iOS, did not sit well with a lot of developers and was a bad look in front of regulators.
2024-03-02 View on X
9to5Mac

After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't stop supporting Home Screen web apps in the EU and they will still be built on WebKit and its security architecture

https://appleinsider.com/... Bodil / @bodil@social.treehouse.systems : Sad news today that Apple have decided not to shoot themselves in the foot to spite the EU after all.  I was ...

2023-11-29
Very interesting deep dive into Foxconn exporting iPhone manufacturing — and grueling Chinese manufacturing culture — to India.  Manufacturing equipment controls and software UI is only in Mandarin.  But it seems to be getting up to speed. https://restofworld.org/...
2023-11-29 View on X
Rest of World

A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more

Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.  —  • SUNGUVARCHATRAM, INDIA

2023-11-18
OpenAI's board just fired Sam Altman. “He was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” https://openai.com/... [image]
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-10-26
Imagine being at Meta and having people clamoring for features and being excited about a product, vs. the discourse about everything else at Meta: complaints about privacy, complaints about antitrust, complaints about lame metaverse vision, complaints about twisting teenagers' minds, complaints about undermining the news media, complaints about disinformation...
2023-10-26 View on X
Meta Investor Relations

Meta reports Q3 revenue up 23% YoY to $34.15B, net income up 164% YoY to $11.58B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.14B for September 2023

that's what the Ray Ban glasses are for Ryan Deffenbaugh / Investor's Business Daily : Meta Earnings Crushed Targets. Why Is The Stock Falling Anyway? Yuvraj Malik / Reuters : Face...

2023-10-06
I haven't tried the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max, but I applaud the idea of more image noise and less smeary noise reduction for low-light scenes.
2023-10-06 View on X
Lux

In-depth iPhone 15 Pro Max camera review: native 24MP capture and 5x lens represent one of the biggest camera upgrades in iPhone's history for everyday users

2023-10-05
Exclusive: our deep dive into Video Boost, Google's data center AI video processing technology, and other improvements coming to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro cameras. New sensors & lenses, Pro Controls, Magic Editor, better raw images, and more. https://www.cnet.com/... Tip @Techmeme.
2023-10-05 View on X
The Verge

Google unveils the Pixel 8 Pro with a 6.7-inch LTPO display, a 50MP main camera, 48MP ultrawide and telephoto sensors, a temperature sensor, and more, for $999+

the best deals on the network you need and the phone you want Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Pixel 8 trade-in deals on the Google Store are either pretty good, or laughably bad Ewan Spe...

The Pixel 8 & 8 Pro get Audio Magic Eraser to zap noise like background dog barking or wind or crowd chatter. 8/n [image]
2023-10-05 View on X
The Verge

Google unveils the Pixel 8 Pro with a 6.7-inch LTPO display, a 50MP main camera, 48MP ultrawide and telephoto sensors, a temperature sensor, and more, for $999+

the best deals on the network you need and the phone you want Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Pixel 8 trade-in deals on the Google Store are either pretty good, or laughably bad Ewan Spe...

Exclusive: our deep dive into Video Boost, Google's data center AI video processing technology, and other improvements coming to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro cameras. New sensors & lenses, Pro Controls, Magic Editor, better raw images, and more. https://www.cnet.com/... Tip @Techmeme.
2023-10-05 View on X
CNET

A deep dive into the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro's camera tech, like Video Boost, which uses AI processing in Google's datacenters to dramatically improve image quality

2023-06-11
Samsung re. subsidies to build chipmaking fabs in the US: “The CHIPS Act is helping us to overcome the differences in construction costs that we get out of Asia versus the United States. And there definitely is a difference.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
2023-06-11 View on X
CNBC

An interview with Jinman Han, the head of Samsung's US chip business, on the pandemic chip shortage, geopolitics, Samsung's $17B fab in Taylor, Texas, and more

Katie Tarasov / CNBC : Tweets: @stshank and @sarthakgh Tweets: Stephen Shankland / @stshank : Samsung re. subsidies to build chipmaking fabs in the US: “The CHIPS Act is helping u...