Thursday, December 26, 2024

Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns (New York Times)

New York Times:
Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns  —  The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry's new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.



Italian energy giant Eni launches its HPC6 supercomputer, the most powerful outside the US, costing €100M to build and using 14K AMD GPUs, to find oil and gas (Malcolm Moore/Financial Times)

Malcolm Moore / Financial Times:
Italian energy giant Eni launches its HPC6 supercomputer, the most powerful outside the US, costing €100M to build and using 14K AMD GPUs, to find oil and gas  —  Italian energy giant switches on the world's most powerful machine outside the US  —  Italian energy giant Eni is firing …



Alibaba agrees to merge its South Korean operations with E-Mart's Gmarket, creating a 50-50 joint venture; sources say the new company could be valued at ~$4B (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)

Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg:
Alibaba agrees to merge its South Korean operations with E-Mart's Gmarket, creating a 50-50 joint venture; sources say the new company could be valued at ~$4B  —  - Companies announce JV deal in Korea, confirming earlier report  — Alibaba seeks inroads abroad as growth slows in China



An in-depth analysis of 62 AI queries: ChatGPT search beat Google on content gap analysis and disambiguation queries, but Google was better for most searches (Eric Enge/Search Engine Land)

Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:
An in-depth analysis of 62 AI queries: ChatGPT search beat Google on content gap analysis and disambiguation queries, but Google was better for most searches  —  A detailed analysis of ChatGPT search and Google's performance across 62 queries, with scoring metrics and practical examples.



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...