China 'sinks' 400 servers equivalent to 30,000 gaming PCs as it powers ahead with massive underwater data center project – but I wonder what GPU they use

Hainan’s underwater computing cluster matches the power of 30,000 gaming PCs operating simultaneouslySeawater-cooled AI centers reduce energy costs and enhance securityMicrosoft abandoned underwater data centers after early trials China has…

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There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

Three years ago, OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever raised eyebrows when he  declared that the era's most advanced neural networks might have already become "slightly conscious." That flair…

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After Its CEO Expressed Hesitation About AI, Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made an eyebrow-raising appearance on a podcast dismissing the hype around claims of having achieved "some [artificial general intelligence] milestone" as "nonsensical benchmark hacking."…

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