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Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
The MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research symposium explores artificial intelligence as both a problem and a solution for the clean energy transition. Leda Zimmerman | MIT Energy Initiativehttps://news.mit.edu/2025/confronting-ai-energy-conundrum-0702 The explosive growth of AI-powered computing centers is creating an unprecedented surge in electricity demand that threatens to overwhelm power grids and derail climate goals. At the same time,…
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Building secure, scalable AI in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Generative AI is a transformative force, redefining how modern enterprises operate. It has quickly become central to how businesses drive productivity, innovate, and deliver impact. The pressure is on: organizations must move fast to not only adopt AI, but to unlock real value at scale or risk falling behind. Achieving enterprise-wide deployment of AI securely…
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AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and…
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Robot eyes are power hungry. What if we gave them tools inspired by the human brain?
A hexapod robot navigating outdoors. Adam D Hines, Queensland University of Technology; Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology, and Tobias Fischer, Queensland University of Technology Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our lives – from warehouse automation to robotic vacuum cleaners. And just like humans, robots need to know where they are to reliably…
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[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling
One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns the verbosity of error handling. We are all intimately (some may say painfully) familiar with this code pattern: The test if err != nil can be so pervasive that it drowns out the rest of the code. This typically happens in programs that do a lot…
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Announcing Rust 1.86.0
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.86.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.86.0 with: If you don’t have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website,…
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Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5
Here’s a closer look at what’s new in Gemini 2.5 for audio dialog and generation. Gemini is built from the ground up to be multimodal, natively understanding and generating content across text, images, audio, video and code. At I/O we showed how Gemini 2.5 marks a significant step forward with new capabilities in AI-powered audio…
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It’s time to stop debating whether AI is genuinely intelligent and focus on making it work for society
‘Pleased to beat you.’ Aileenchik Andrew Rogoyski, University of Surrey Half of entry-level white collar jobs might cease to exist in the near future, according to Dario Amodei, the CEO of leading AI company Anthropic. Amodei, whose company is behind the Claude platform, has since called for transparency standards requiring companies making AI models to…
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Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself, but the journey that got us here. I’ve been wanting to dive deeper into this story, to share not just the what, but the how…
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Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI
Following the exciting launches of Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT, our family of state-of-the-art open models capable of running on a single cloud or desktop accelerator, we’re pushing our vision for accessible AI even further. Gemma 3 delivered powerful capabilities for developers, and we’re now extending that vision to highly capable, real-time AI operating directly on the…