Tag: AI

  • The Cost of Powering AI

    The Tennessee Valley Authority voted to drop renewables as a priority and delay coal plant closures after new Donald Trump appointees joined its board. Critics warn the move could raise pollution, health risks, and long term costs as power demand rises.

  • AI Makes Breast Screening Smarter

    AI-assisted breast cancer screening reduces aggressive “interval” cancers by 12% compared with standard radiologist-only screening. AI ranks mammograms, flags high-risk scans for extra review, and helps detect small tumors earlier, potentially saving lives.

  • How AI is Redesigning Antibiotics to Outsmart Superbugs

    Drug-resistant infections kill 4M+ yearly and could double by 2050. César de la Fuente at University of Pennsylvania is using AI to discover antimicrobial peptides—even from extinct species—to help prevent a post-antibiotic era.

  • AI Chip Crunch Hits Smartphone Prices

    AI’s rapid growth is driving memory chip prices up nearly 50%, squeezing supply and pushing smartphone costs 3 to 8% higher. As storage becomes pricier, new devices cost more while refurbished phones gain market share.

  • Startup Equity Cuts Deepen

    The tech gold rush is fading fast. Startups are sharply reducing employee equity refresh grants as venture funding tightens, with payouts down over 40 percent, while AI firms remain the only ones still offering strong stock rewards.

  • Outsourcing Your Intelligence to AI

    Relying too much on AI can quietly weaken your judgment. Blind trust in tools like ChatGPT fuels authority bias, reduces creativity, and dulls leadership, making self trust and clear values more vital than ever.

  • A Social Platform Just for AIs

    Moltbook is a new platform where millions of AI bots talk only to each other. Experts say it shows how AI agents can act oddly spread risks and slowly push humans out of the internet.

  • The Myth of the AI Race

    The AI race is no longer about one country winning as the US leads in advanced models and computing power while China is gaining strength in cheaper AI systems robots factories and global spread creating a divided AI world.

  • AI Can Save Time And Money For Small Businesses

    Marketing expert Cathy Balach says small businesses can use free AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to save time on marketing and analysis but warns owners must verify results and keep human judgment involved.

  • Jensen Huang Predicts Humanoid Robots This Year

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said humanoid robots could reach human level abilities in 2026 and believes they will create jobs not cut them especially as populations shrink. Critics warn AI is already causing job losses with reports showing thousands of roles impacted.