9.30.2024

Tech tidbits

The Celebrities Lending Their Voices to Meta’s New AI

[Meta Platforms] announced deals with actors Awkwafina, John Cena, Judi Dench, Kristen Bell and Keegan-Michael Key on Wednesday that will allow it to use their voices in a new AI assistant. Meta is paying stars millions of dollars for use of their likeness, people familiar with the negotiations said.

Big Tech Is Rushing to Find Clean Power to Fuel AI’s Insatiable Appetite

Tech companies are already the biggest purchasers of wind and solar power, but it isn’t enough to meet the round-the-clock needs of data centers. A search on a generative AI platform like ChatGPT uses at least 10 times the energy as a standard one on Google. Emissions from the global build-out of data centers between now and 2030 could equal about 40% of the entire U.S. economy’s annual emissions, Morgan Stanley estimates.


And other stuff from the Wall Street Journal.

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