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What are return to office (RTO) mandates and why is big tech embracing them?
In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, the workplace landscape has undergone a seismic shift. Remote work, once a rarity, has become a defining feature of modern employment, with many employees and employers seeing its benefits. As the world has transitioned out of crisis mode, a growing trend among organizations in big tech is the implementation of return to office…
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Day 6 of OpenAI’s 12 Days event — all the big news as it happens
We’re now halfway through OpenAI’s 12 Days extravaganza. Every weekday until December 20 the AI lab is making at least one product, service or feature announcement. It is safe to say it has been a mixed bag so far. There are likely still surprises in store and we’ve yet to see any updates to the GPT family of models, Advanced…
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Ireland has become a “data dumping ground” for big tech
Ireland has become a “data dumping ground” for big tech companies, new research claims, and it’s only going to get worse as AI drives an expansion of data centers using fossil fuels. That’s according to a report by University College Cork, commissioned by Friends of the Earth, into the impact of data centers on Ireland, which has long drawn big…
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big source of traffic is AI crawlers – Computerworld
One big source of traffic, it noted, is AI crawlers, which are increasingly under scrutiny as they scan the web and gobble up voluminous amounts of data to train large language models (LLMs). A big concern is that some take data even when they’re not supposed to, as opposed to “verified” good bots that typically come from search engines and…
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Meta wants to join the big tech nuclear club
Meta wants help from nuclear energy developers to power its data centers for AI, saying it needs up to four gigawatts of supply to meet surging demands. The move comes amid a drive by big tech firms to find new sources of energy, as AI models increasingly grow in size and require more and more power. The 4GW Meta says…
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The new Llama 3.3 70B model has just dropped — here’s why it’s a big deal
Meta has just dropped its Llama 3.3 70B model, providing further proof that open models continue to close the gap with proprietary rivals. It’s only been released in a 70B parameter version but its benchmark performance puts it not far off the older Llama 3.1 405B, and it even ranks above OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 in some…
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Microsoft Surface rumors point to a big Copilot Plus refresh next year
Microsoft’s first Copilot AI-ready Surface laptop arrived earlier this year, and now Windows Central reports that the rest of the lineup is due for a refresh in 2025. According to the report, we can expect new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop computers — and we’ve already seen a possible prototype pop up in October — with Intel Lunar Lake chips, that will be…
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AirPods 4 just got a big price drop — and it’s way cheaper than Black Friday
When the AirPods 4 launched earlier this year during the GlowTime Apple event, I was curious to see what prices they might drop to over the holiday shopping season. There was no massive discount over Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but a week later we’ve got a price that makes them very easy to recommend. The AirPods 4 with ANC…
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GM and EVgo Just Hit a Big Milestone With EV Chargers
General Motors and its EV charging partner, EVgo, have doubled the number of public stations in their U.S. charging network to 2,000 in total, in just over a year and with hundreds potentially more on the way by the end of 2024. GM and EVgo constructed their 2,000th co-branded public charging station in Murietta, California, just off the 215 freeway…
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Everyone Should Have a Big Battery Like the Jackery 1000 (and It's 50% Off for Black Friday)
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. I’m a fatalist, averse to the concept of offending destiny by planning for anything, but I still love my Jackery 1000 portable power station. It’s partly because I’m vaguely concerned about the power grid going down if there’s a…
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