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OpenAI is quietly expanding what ChatGPT can do, rolling out animated GIF creation powered by a model called Images two point six — one that hasn't even been officially announced yet. Users will get frame-by-frame editing and speed controls, a signal that OpenAI is pushing hard into creative media tools.
That AI ambition comes with a cost, and a new Sierra Club report is putting hard numbers on it. Experts warn that the rapid buildout of data centers across the United States could erase fifteen years of greenhouse gas progress. Off-grid gas emissions could hit four hundred sixty million tons by two thousand thirty, with power-sector emissions rising forty-two percent above current levels by decade's end.
On the hardware side, startup Nothing is teasing what its CEO calls an AI-first device dropping next month. Details remain thin, but the company is pitching it as a productivity-focused product built around artificial intelligence from the ground up — another sign that the race to own the AI hardware space is very much alive.
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