Next-Gen AI needs liquid cooling

IEEE Spectrum

Four Ways to Solve AI's Heat Problem

Circulate water atop the hottest chips, or dunk the entire server in fluid, and maybe even let the fluid boil.

"Specifically, the urgency is to move away from fans and toward some sort of liquid cooling. For example, water has roughly four times the specific heat of air and is about 800 times as dense, meaning it can absorb around 3,200 times as much heat as a comparable volume of air can. What’s more, the thermal conductivity of water is 23.5 times as high as that of air, meaning that heat transfers to water much more readily." #Datacenters

An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025

An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

What AI to use in late 2025

#AI #LLM

Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/computing-is-indeed-a-discipline-in-crisis/ #Academia #Research

As Good as a Coin Toss: Human Detection of AI-Generated Content https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/ #AI #Deepfakes

The Real Story on AI’s Water Use–and How to Tackle It

IEEE Spectrum

How Much Water Do AI Data Centers Really Consume?

There's a lot of confusion about how much water is used by AI. Get the real story on data centers' water consumption, and read about tech for doing...

#Datacenters #Water

Piracy vs. Fair Use: How AI Training Intersects With Copyright Law

Public Knowledge

Piracy vs. Fair Use: How AI Training Intersects With Copyright Law

When it comes to the debate on AI model training, accurately distinguishing between the two is essential.

#AI #Copyright

How do AI models generate videos?

MIT Technology Review

How do AI models generate videos?

With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.

#AI #Video

OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0 #AI #OpenAI #Cinema #Film

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT during sessions. Clients are triggered.

MIT Technology Review

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.

#AI #LLM #Psychology

Mistral AI: "In January 2025, training its Large 2 model produced the equivalent of 20.4 kilotons of carbon dioxide, consumed 281,000 cubic meters of water, and consumed 650 kilograms of resources. That’s about 112 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water consumption. Using the EPA’s estimate that an average car produces 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, that works out to the annual CO2 production of 4,435 cars, too."

How much power and water does AI use? Google, Mistral weigh in | PCWorld

#AI #Environment

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

MIT Technology Review

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.

#AI #Energy

🫤 That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget https://venturebeat.com/ai/that-cheap-open-source-ai-model-is-actually-burning-through-your-compute-budget/ #Al #LLM

Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02450-9 #Academia #Research #MentalHealth

A new report reveals that Disney—the company that spent decades lobbying to extend copyright terms to protect Mickey Mouse—abandoned a deepfake Dwayne Johnson project purely over public domain fears.

Techdirt

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain

Disney spent 18 months negotiating to create a digital version of Dwayne Johnson for the live-action Moana film. Johnson agreed. The technology was...

#AI #Copyright #Disney

Global AI Cultures How a cultural focus can empower generative artificial intelligence. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/global-ai-cultures/ #AI #LLM #Culture #Research

GPT-5 is here. Now what? The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI.

MIT Technology Review

GPT-5 is here. Now what?

The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI.

#AI #LLM #ChatGPT

Comic Sales Charts are Gone, But is That Such a Bad Thing?

SKTCHD

Comic Sales Charts are Gone, But is That Such a Bad Thing? - SKTCHD

The horse race has taken over. I don’t mean a literal horse race, of course. I’m referring to how box office performance and sales and ratings ...

#Comics

Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself

MIT Technology Review

Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself

From coding to hardware, LLMs are speeding up research progress in artificial intelligence. It could be the most important trend in AI today.

#AI #LLM #Research

Is It Still Disney Magic If It’s AI? https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-ai-hollywood-movies-5982a925

Techmeme

Disney is grappling with using AI in its filmmaking process while protecting its characters against it, plus legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns

From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

#AI #Disney #Film #Cinema

Benedict Cumberbatch criticises “grossly wasteful” film industry

NME

Benedict Cumberbatch criticises “grossly wasteful” film industry

Benedict Cumberbatch has described the film industry as “grossly wasteful” in its excessive use of resources and energy.

“It’s a grossly wasteful industry. Think about set builds that aren’t recycled, think about transport, think about food, think about housing, but also light and energy. The amount of wattage you need to create daylight and consistent light in a studio environment. It’s a lot of energy.” #Film #Cinema