International Monetary Fund

Alternative Data and Monetary Policy

In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending daily life with shutdowns, social distancing, and heightened uncertainty, but the traditional economic ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers May Not Need Constant Peak Power, Study Finds

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...
MIT Technology Review

Using big data for good

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data sets to make the world better for everyone. A photogenic green-eyed Russian ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
VentureBeat

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital ...
Fast Company

Are LTMs the next LLMs? This new type of AI can do what large-language models can’t

Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, but they’re only one type of underlying AI model. An under-the-radar company, Fundamental, is set to bring a new type of enterprise AI model ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
Food & Water Watch

PA Data Center Opponents Condemn Shapiro-Supported Model Ordinance

HB2151 threatens to speed up controversial data center construction statewide Harrisburg, PA — Today, the House Energy Committee held a hearing for HB2151, a Shapiro-backed bill that would provide a ...
IEEE

A Model to Limit Batching Denial of Service Attacks on GraphQL

Abstract: GraphQL is a dynamic API data query and manipulation language created by Facebook and made open source in 2015. A standout feature of GraphQL is batching, which allows multiple queries of ...