Google signed a deal to power data centers with nuclear micro-reactors from Kairos — but the 2030 timeline is very optimistic

Lesezeit: < 1 MinuteWith the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups

Lesezeit: < 1 MinuteThe data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking …

Researchers question AI’s ‘reasoning’ ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes

Lesezeit: < 1 MinuteHow do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds Friday suggests that the answer is, at least for now, …

Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker

Lesezeit: < 1 MinuteArne Schepker, the CEO of the popular Berlin-based language learning platform Babbel, is stepping down, and the company’s co-founder and former CEO Markus Witte is stepping back in to lead the company “into a new phase while searching for Arne’s successor with patience,” the company said. This new phase, unsurprisingly, will …