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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has inked a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud, giving the startup access to Nvidia's latest GB three hundred chips. It's a significant vote of confidence in Murati's post-OpenAI venture, and it deepens Google's strategy of backing multiple AI horses rather than betting on one.
On the environmental front, a Wired investigation found that new natural gas-powered data centers tied to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could collectively emit more than one hundred twenty nine million tons of greenhouse gases annually. To put that in perspective, that's more than many entire nations produce in a year, raising hard questions about whether the AI boom is coming at an unacceptable climate cost.
And GitHub's command-line tool is now collecting pseudoanonymous telemetry by default, a move that's drawn sharp debate among developers. GitHub says the data helps improve the product, but the open-source community is pushing back, arguing that opt-in should always be the standard when it comes to tracking user behavior, even when the data is anonymized.
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