AI-designed chips save power claims TSMC
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Tenfold efficiency claim

TSMC said that AI-driven design tools have lifted its AI chip energy efficiency by about ten times.

Chinese government tells firms to bin Nvidia AI chips
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Beijing blocks RTX Pro 6000

China has told some of its biggest tech outfits, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to stop messing about with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 chips.

Peter Thiel warns Silicon Valley to beware the antichrist
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Billionaire tech guru says unchecked progress may summon apocalypse

Peter Thiel who once made billions betting on technology now wants everyone to think a bit harder about a literal biblical Armageddon and the Antichrist.

Nvidia throws $100 bn at OpenAI
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Chipmaker plans to bank roll a glut of AI data centres

Nvidia has decided to fling up to $100 billion at OpenAI in what is being dressed up as a grand AI infrastructure partnership.

AI doctors hate women and minorities
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Bias baked into medical models 

Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.