A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why

About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated ...
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Fountain reinvents the frontline worker hiring funnel with AI: ‘Pool’ and ‘Source’ tools help employers engage with existing talent pools and lower acquisition costs

Fountain, the AI-native platform for managing the global frontline workforce, announced today the launch of Pool and Source, two new capabilities within the company’s Frontline OS. It’s the industry’s ...

Hong Kong scientists launch AI model to better predict extreme weather

By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A team of Hong Kong scientists has developed an artificial intelligence ...

Chilean community draws on human intelligence to highlight AI’s excessive thirst for water

A small community in one of Chile’s most water-stressed regions is trying to draw attention to the enormous water footprint of artificial intelligence chatbots. To do so, it has come up with the novel ...

Gemini 3.5 Early Testing : Turns Prompts into Working Apps, Emulators and UIs Quickly

In tests, Gemini 3.5 outpaced GPT-5.1 High and Opus 4.5 on coding tasks, giving you cleaner outputs and fewer fix-it loops.

Empowering an AI foundation model to accelerate plant research

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new method that more than doubles computer processing speeds while using 75% less memory to analyze plant imaging ...

AI model forecasts severe thunderstorms 4 hours ahead with higher accuracy

In a critical advance for climate resilience, researchers from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed an AI model that can predict dangerous convective ...
Data Center Frontier

Rethinking Water in the AI Data Center Era

As AI data centers expand into water-stressed regions, operators are turning to reclaimed water, closed-loop reuse systems, and verifiable stewardship accounting to balance ...