Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
Alabama town left powerless against massive new Bitcoin mining data center after developer finds loophole in state zoning laws
Morgan County’s 12-month moratorium has no enforcement power thanks to Dillon’s Rule limiting its ability to act against a proposed 50 MW Bitcoin mine by VoltCore The town of Somerville never adopted zoning, and the site sits outside the town limits, leaving its 18-month moratorium equally unenforceable The developer trades…
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Coders are slacking when it comes to web standards — and that simply won’t do in the AI age
The ValidateHTML project examined the 5,000 most popular domains based on the Tranco list Project lead Théo Ducreux found that just 53% of these sites had human-readable home pages Almost 90% of the sites failed to meet W3C web standard, even serving violations of the HTML5 specification ValidateHTML—an independent project…
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‘When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief’ — Quote of the day by Scarlett Johansson on GPT-4’s infamous ‘Sky’ launch voice
Many pioneering pieces of fiction in the 21st century have come to accurately define the relationship between humans and AI before the contemporary explosion of modern intelligent systems. These include the film ‘Ex-Machina’, various episodes of ‘Black Mirror’ and, of course, ‘Her’. “When I heard the released demo, I was…
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‘Taking away people’s choice of how they work is probably not going to help them in terms of their well-being’: New study unsurprisingly finds people who want to work remotely are actually more productive and happier
Study finds remote workers are far happier and more productive Remote workers reported much higher well-being, but were also less likely to leave their role Study also dispels myth that remote workers might feel alienated from co-workers Letting employees work remotely can have a significant positive effect on their productivity,…
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Anthropic becomes the ‘Apple of AI’ as it grabs most revenue despite being the most expensive
Volume and spend on tokens for Anthropic’s AI solutions made it more revenue than any of its competitors in July 2026, cementing its position as the top LLM provider This success is despite Anthropic’s tokens being more expensive than its competitors The data was collated by Vercel’s AI Gateway, an…
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I stopped writing careful ChatGPT prompts and rambled at it for 10 minutes instead — the results changed how I use AI
I’ve often treated ChatGPT as though a poorly worded prompt might break it. I’d think about what I wanted to ask, rewrite it a couple of times, remove anything that sounded irrelevant, and essentially do half the chatbot‘s work in my head before ever submitting a prompt. Recently, I’ve discovered…
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