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Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Yahoo Finance· 2025-10-07 17:15
Group 1 - U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was primarily driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, with a mere 0.1% growth when excluding these sectors [1][2] - The dollar value contributed to GDP growth by AI data-center buildout surpassed U.S. consumer spending for the first time, highlighting the significance of technology investment [2] - Investment in information-processing equipment and software constituted only 4% of U.S. GDP but accounted for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of 2025, indicating a disproportionate impact on economic expansion [3] Group 2 - Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia have invested tens of billions into data centers to meet the rising demand for AI and large language models [4] - Hyperscaler capital expenditures on data centers have increased fourfold, approaching $400 billion annually, with the top 10 spenders responsible for nearly a third of this spending [5] - Data center-linked spending is estimated to be adding approximately 100 basis points to U.S. real GDP growth, underscoring its economic significance [5] Group 3 - The surge in technology-led growth occurs amidst broader economic sluggishness, with job creation slowing and concerns that the economy could have faced recession without technology investment [5]
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Avi Chawla· 2025-10-05 06:30
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The Economist· 2025-10-01 14:40
“Trying to teach AI systems only to follow good commands is not going well.” Discover why the security flaw in large language models is hard to fix on “The Intelligence” https://t.co/nmQO68i5ei https://t.co/yJdyrUH4If ...
Meet NVIDIA Training and Certification Customer: Swirl AI
NVIDIA· 2025-09-30 20:37
In our company, we focus on two main areas. First, we consult companies on all things AI and we also focus on content creation and education on the side. So what we do is we create a lot of educational content online.So we teach the audience about artificial intelligence. And if there's a need, we can also come in and run workshops in the companies that we are actually consulting, or we also help in upskilling the future talent of AI engineers. NVIDIA in general is a very important player in the industry. I ...
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The Economist· 2025-09-30 05:20
Unlike most software, large language models are probabilistic. A deterministic approach to safety is thus inadequate. A better way forward is to copy engineers in the physical world https://t.co/COsTN2tSGf ...
AI Infrastructure Startup Modal Labs Raises $80 Million
Bloomberg Technology· 2025-09-29 19:57
Company Overview - The company provides a software layer that aggregates underlying physical infrastructure, including GPUs, to facilitate application development for training, inference, batch processing, and code execution [2] - The company positions itself as innovating in the software layer above the physical infrastructure, focusing on developer experience [5][11] - The company aims to be capital efficient by not owning the underlying physical infrastructure and running on top of existing clouds and neo-clouds [10][11] Funding and Investment - The company has raised over $80 million in additional funding, bringing the total to $111 million [6] - The funding will be used to hire engineers to build the platform and invest in sales and marketing [8] Market Opportunity and Customer Base - The company sees a massive market opportunity with exploding demand for its platform [8] - Customers include Medha, Lovable, Sue, Know Ramp, and Scale AI [2][12] - The company is seeing adoption from later-stage and enterprise companies moving research prototypes into production [7] - The company's customer base is primarily in the US, but is expanding globally [12][13] Technology and Infrastructure - The company's infrastructure is designed to support applications like generative media, large language models, and computational biotech [2][13] - The company's platform is used in various use cases, including curing cancer and weather forecasting [13] - The company differentiates itself from traditional infrastructure like AWS Lambda by building a new stack to support modern applications [3][4] Talent Acquisition - Finding talent to solve hard infrastructure problems is challenging [9]
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The Economist· 2025-09-26 23:00
Large language models do not separate data from instructions. If they are given a command, they will attempt to follow it. This oversight can become a security vulnerability https://t.co/m9LSYhXo5q ...
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Decrypt· 2025-09-26 21:15
A new AI study finds that large language models show stable, surprising behaviors when left alone. https://t.co/tUBr1FE5kl ...
AI Isn't Taking Your Job Yet—But It Might Soon, OpenAI Data Suggests
Yahoo Finance· 2025-09-26 15:20
Group 1 - OpenAI introduced GDPval, a benchmark assessing AI's capability to perform actual job tasks, focusing on occupations with at least 60% computer-based tasks [1] - The study emphasizes that the initial impact of AI will primarily affect white-collar, office-based jobs, rather than manual labor roles [2] - A previous study indicated that up to 80% of U.S. workers could see at least 10% of their tasks influenced by large language models (LLMs), with 19% facing at least 50% impact [3] Group 2 - The trajectory of AI development suggests that by 2027, AI could match human experts in various fields, potentially transforming tasks previously deemed too specialized for automation [4] - Software development is highlighted as particularly vulnerable to AI disruption, along with legal, accounting, financial analysis, and customer service roles [5]
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The Economist· 2025-09-25 12:00
Large language models do not separate data from instructions. If they are given a command, they will attempt to follow it. This oversight can become a security vulnerability https://t.co/mBceL0vBEw ...