Spotlight on AI This Earth Day: ‘AI Is Fundamentally Incompatible With Environmental Sustainability’

Inference, training, and everyday operations all contribute to the considerable water and power consumption required to run generative AI. Continue reading Spotlight on AI This Earth Day: ‘AI Is Fundamentally Incompatible With Environmental Sustainability’

Possible National Security Crisis Averted: CISA’s Reversal Extends Support for CVE Database

CISA executed the option period on MITRE’s contract to keep the essential CVE cybersecurity database running. Continue reading Possible National Security Crisis Averted: CISA’s Reversal Extends Support for CVE Database

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 programming languages. Continue reading April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

Will a Useful Quantum Computer Be a Reality Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups, IBM & More Are Working On It

DARPA chose Diraq and Silicon Quantum Computing for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which will assess whether participating companies could create a useful quantum computer in under a decade. Continue reading Will a Useful Quantum Computer Be a Reality Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups, IBM & More Are Working On It

Which Two AI Models Are ‘Unfaithful’ at Least 25% of the Time About Their ‘Reasoning’? Here’s Anthropic’s Answer

Anthropic studied its own Claude and DeepSeek’s-R1. Neither AI model always considered “hints” in prompts relevant to disclose in their output. Continue reading Which Two AI Models Are ‘Unfaithful’ at Least 25% of the Time About Their ‘Reasoning’? Here’s Anthropic’s Answer