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Position: Neglecting the Sustainability of AI is Fuelling a Global AI Arms Race

arXiv:2502.20016v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sustainability encompasses three key facets: economic, environmental, and social. However, the nascent discourse on sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) predominantly focuses on the environmental sustainability of AI, neglecting the economic and social aspects. Achieving truly sustainable AI necessitates addressing the tension between its environmental sustainability, which emphasises mitigating AI's climate impact, and its social...

AI 'arms race' set to create new group of staggeringly wealthy tycoons

AI 'arms race' set to create new group of staggeringly wealthy tycoons Tens of billions is being pumped into investment in AI by some of the world's biggest tech firms, with Google's owner the latest to ramp-up spending The mind boggling sums of money linked to the future of artificial intelligence have reached a new level. Anthropic, the company behind AI chatbot Claude, has fired the starting gun on a stock market listing in New York that could see it valued at more than $1trillion...

Armed with AI, study identifies prey from predator crunching sounds

Armed with AI, study identifies prey from predator crunching sounds Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Interactions between hard-shelled marine mollusks such as clams and snails and their predators play a critical but largely unseen role in shaping coastal ecosystems. These organisms help stabilize shorelines, filter water and support biodiversity, making them foundational to coastal health. Yet they are increasingly threatened by ocean acidification and expanding...

China’s Xi Jinping arrives in a North Korea armed with advanced warships and AI drones

China’s Xi Jinping arrives in a North Korea armed with advanced warships and AI drones Could Xi’s visit indirectly advance North Korea’s military build-up as Pyongyang strengthens ties with Beijing and Moscow? Surface and underwater fleet The construction of Pyongyang’s Choe Hyon-class guided-missile destroyer, which has a displacement of up to 5,000 tonnes, was first unveiled in December 2024.

AI Financing Is an Arms Race, Says GoldenTree's Tananbaum

Arm May Hit $15 Billion AI Chip Revenue Goal Early, CEO Says

The Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco in March. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Arm CEO Haas on Agentic AI and Taiwan's Ecosystem

Haas Says Arm May Hit $15 Billion AI Chip Revenue Goal Early

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

Almost all UK workers now have to deal with AI, but few firms report big productivity gains because of all the time lost in hand-holding the systems and cleaning up their mistakes. So says a report by the Work AI Institute, a research arm of AI biz Glean Technologies. It claims there are productivity gains to be had from introducing AI-based tools, yet much of this is being negated by the amount of time employees waste making them work – a phenomenon it has christened "botsitting."

Google's parent company is raising $80 billion to fuel its AI ambitions

Google's parent company is raising $80 billion to fuel its AI ambitions Not even Alphabet has enough cash to meet its AI goals. One of the biggest factors in the arms race for AI dominance is just how much capital companies are spending on the likes of data centers and compute power. Anthropic, which just filed to go public, last week said it had raised $65 billion in its latest funding round.