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• Data Centres Will Use Twice as Much Energy By 2030

  10-04-2025 22:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a report from the International Energy Agency published today. The primary culprit? AI. Nature: The report covers the current energy footprint for data centres and forecasts their future needs, which could help governments, companies, and local communities to plan infrastructure and AI deployment. IEA's models project that data centres will use 945 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2030, roughly equivalent t
  
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• OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Memory To Draw on Full Conversation History

  10-04-2025 19:30 via slashdot.org
  
  OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory functionality to include references from all past conversations. The system now builds upon existing saved memories by automatically incorporating previous interactions to deliver more contextually relevant responses for writing, learning, and advisory tasks, the startup said Thursday.
  Subscribers can disable the feature through settings or request memory modifications directly in chat. Those already opted out of memory features won't have past-chat reference
  
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• Meta Says Llama 4 Targets Left-Leaning Bias

  10-04-2025 19:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Meta says in its Llama 4 release announcement that it's specifically addressing "left-leaning" political bias in its AI model, distinguishing this effort from traditional bias concerns around race, gender, and nationality that researchers have long documented. "Our goal is to remove bias from our AI models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue," the company said.
  "All leading LLMs have had issues with bias -- specifically, they historically h
  
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• China To Restrict US Film Releases

  10-04-2025 18:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Hours after Donald Trump imposed record 125% tariffs on Chinese products entering the US, China has announced it will further curb the number of US films allowed to screen in the country. From a report: "The wrong action of the US government to abuse tariffs on China will inevitably further reduce the domestic audience's favourability towards American films," the China Film Administration said in a statement on Thursday. "We will follow the market rules, respect the audience's choice, and modera
  
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• Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters

  10-04-2025 17:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Meta is partnering with Blumhouse to launch "Movie Mate" technology that encourages moviegoers to use their phones during theatrical screenings, beginning with an April 30 showing of "Megan" at Blumhouse's "Halfway to Halloween Film Festival." According to Variety, the system enables viewers to chat with a Megan-themed AI chatbot, answer trivia questions, and access behind-the-scenes information while watching the film in theaters.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Gas Boiler Fittings Outnumbered Heat Pumps By 15 To One in UK Last Year - Report

  10-04-2025 16:05 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Gas boiler fittings outnumbered new heat pump installations by more than 15 to one last year, and only one in eight new homes were equipped with the low-carbon alternative despite the government's clean energy targets.
  Poorer households are also being shut out of the heat pump market as the grants available are inadequate and should be increased, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation thinktank. The UK has the slowest introduction of heat pumps in
  
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• Amazon CEO Urges 'Startup' Mentality in Shareholder Letter

  10-04-2025 13:45 via slashdot.org
  
  Amazon has to operate like the "world's largest startup" as it works to meet demand for AI and cut bureaucracy in its ranks, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said in his annual letter to shareholders. From a report: "If your customer experiences aren't planning to leverage these intelligent models, their ability to query giant corpuses of data and quickly find your needle in the haystack, their ability to keep getting smarter with more feedback and data, and their future agentic capabilities,
  
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• Trump: Apple Building in China is 'Unsustainable,' Could Exempt Some Companies From Tariffs

  10-04-2025 11:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pause some of the exorbitant tariffs that he put in place earlier today, he spoke to the press at the White House and provided some commentary that could be a positive for Apple. When asked whether he would consider exempting some U.S. companies from the tariffs in the future, Trump said that he would. "As time goes by, we're going to take a look at it," he said. "There are some that by the nature of the com
  
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• Bank of England Says AI Software Could Create Market Crisis For Profit

  10-04-2025 08:55 via slashdot.org
  
  Increasingly autonomous AI programs could end up manipulating markets and intentionally creating crises in order to boost profits for banks and traders, the Bank of England has warned. From a report: Artificial intelligence's ability to "exploit profit-making opportunities" was among a wide range of risks cited in a report by the Bank of England's financial policy committee (FPC), which has been monitoring the City's growing use of the technology.
  The FPC said it was concerned about the potentia
  
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• Lawmakers Are Skeptical of Zuckerberg's Commitment To Free Speech

  10-04-2025 05:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta's latest whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams, got a warm reception on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as the Careless People author who the company has fought to silence described the company's chief executive as someone willing to shapeshift into whatever gets him closest to power. The message was one that lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism were very open to. Their responses underscore that amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg's lat
  
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• Microsoft Windows 95 Reboot Chime and Minecraft Soundtrack Inducted Into National Recording Registry

  10-04-2025 02:11 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  BrianFagioli writes: In a move that is sure to make longtime PC users do a double take, the Library of Congress has added two very unexpected sounds to its National Recording Registry. No, it's not another classic rock album or jazz staple. Believe it or not, it's actually the "Reboot Chime" from Windows 95 (that played when the operating system started) and the soundtrack from Minecraft!Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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