The data centers to train and manage the IA may soon contain millions of chips, cost hundreds of billions of dollars and require equivalent energy to the electrical network of a large city, if current trends are worth. This is according to a new study by Georgetown researchers, Epoch Ai and Rand, who have examined the growth trajectory of AI data centers all over the world since 2019 to this year.

Instagram Threads, the most new Meta and X competitor social network, is officially moving from the Threadsnet website to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality improvements for the thread web app, including features to access more easily to personalized feeds, post -saved and likes, as well as other tools for creating new columns, copying posts for compensation, finding your favorite creators from X on thread and more.

For the first time in about five years, Openi is preparing to release an artificial intelligence system that is truly "open", which means that it will be available for download without any cost and non -gated behind an API. Techcrunch reported on Wednesday that Openi aims at a launch in the early summer and aims at higher performance to open the Meta and Deepseek models.

Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for entrepreneurs, has acquired MAZA, a financial app aimed at Spanish speakers in the United States, for $ 40 million, the companies referred to Techcrunch. At first glance, the combination may seem a little curious. Flex's software and payments infrastructure is to help entrepreneurs have a single app to carry out all their finances.

Could future AIS be "conscious" and experience the world in a similar way to the way they do humans? There is no obvious evidence that they will do it, but anthropic does not exclude the possibility. Thursday, the AI ​​laboratory announced that it has started a research program to investigate - and prepare to navigate - what is calling "model welfare".

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Have you ever wondered how much electricity are you using when you suggest or thank an artificial intelligence model? The face engineer Julien Delavande embraced him, so he built a tool to help get to the answer. The models to the consumer energy every time they are performed. They are managed on specialized GPU and chips that require a lot of power to perform computational workloads associated on a large scale.

Companies such as Google and Microsoft have equipped their productivity suite with functionality and artificial intelligence assistants, while startups such as clickup and Redadi have focused strongly on the construction of artificial intelligence integration and research functionality. In line with this growing trend of the infusion of digital work suite with AI, Dropbox has updated its research tool, dash, introduced for the first time in 2023.

Revolut, the 45 billion dollar neobanking startup founded in the United Kingdom, may have put its pitches on the ice, but its budget is quite hot. The company recorded a net profit of $ 1 billion (£ 790 million) in 2024, while its customer base grew by 38% to 52.5 million, according to its annual report. Revenues increased by 72% to $ 4 billion (£ 3.1 billion) in the year.

On Thursday Adobe launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of models to generation of images, a model to generate carriers and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models, as well as some of its competitors. There is also a mobile app for Firefly in the works. The new Firefly Image Model 4, says Adobe, improves its predecessors in terms of quality, speed and quantity of control over the structure and the style of output, camera corners and zooms.

For years, websites included information on which type of crawler was not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, who wants to create a similar standard for images, added a tool to content credentials with the intention of giving them a little more control over what is used to form the AI ​​models. Convincing artificial intelligence companies actually adhere to the Adobe standard can be the main challenge, especially considering that the artificial intelligence crawler are already known to ignore the requests in the robots.

Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a question in many countries and regions to the Reshore, or to redevelop the infrastructures of the critical sector and to report companies, which had moved or outsourced some or all their industrial operations to cheaper countries. But it is easier to say than to do. In the key area of ​​precision production, for example, most western countries are not established to manage the current production needs that companies have to face.

The protests against Elon Musk and Tesla have spread all over the world thanks to the involvement of the CEO in the Trump Administration. Now these protests are listed as an official "risk factor" in Tesla waste to present federal regulators. The new language, deposited at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday morning, shows that the recourse against Musk has risen to such a level that Tesla's lawyers feel the need to warn the investors who could damage the company's brand and activity.

Last year it was monumental for the artificial intelligence industry in the United States and beyond. There were 49 startups that collected financing rounds for a value of $ 100 million or more in 2024, for our counting in Techcrunch; Three companies have collected more than a "megaround" and seven companies collected $ 1 billion in size or more. How will 2025 be compared?

Towards the end of March, Openi has announced his intention to release his first "open" language model from GPT -2 this year. Now the details on that model are starting to drip the company's sessions with the AI ​​developer community. Sources say to Techcrunch that Aidan Clark, vice -president of the research of Openai, is leading the development of the open model, which is found in the early stages.

Tesla began to test his autonomous service with employees with the employees of Austin and the Bay Area in view of the planned robotaxi launch of the company this summer. "The driving service for a ride supervised by FSD is live for a first series of employees in the Bay Area of ​​Austin & San Francisco", the company published Wednesday on X.

The coding assistant to Windsurf startups cut the prices "across the board" which announced on Monday, advertising "huge savings" for its users as competition with its rival cursor is intensified. Windsurf said that he is getting rid of his complex system of "flow action credits", which he charged to the developers of actions that his artificial intelligence has done in the background.

The government censorship found its way to Bluesky, but there is currently a escapade thanks to how the social network is structured. At the beginning of this month, Bluesky limited access to 72 accounts in Türkiye at the request of Turkish government authorities, according to a recent Freedom of Expression Association report. As a result, people in Türkiye can no longer see these accounts and their scope is limited.

The giant of IBM technology and consultancy was not immune to the cuts of the government efficiency of the government (doge). IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to cuts related to the doge during the first quarter of 2025, according to Reuters and Bloomberg reports. These cuts amount to $ 100 million in future payments, for Bloomberg. Federal contracts represent between 5% and just under 10% of IBM consultancy practices.

On Wednesday Openi brought the technology behind its new and improved functionality of generation of chatgpt images to its bees, allowing developers to integrate it into their apps and services. The new generator of Openii images, launched for most chatgpt users at the end of March, has become viral for its ability to create realistic photos in Ghibli style and "action figures".

Fireflies.ai, supported by Khosla Ventures.ai, an AI sampling app, released a series of "mini apps" on Wednesday specifications of the domain to automatically extract insights from the transcriptions of the meetings. With the widespread availability of automatic and generative vocal recognition models, meeting intelligence startups such as Otter, Read Ai, Circleback, Krisp and Granola have recorded impressive growth. The fireflies, in the same way, have seen an 8x expansion in terms of users and reached profitability, according to the co-founder and CEO Krish Ramineni.

In mid-April, Openi launched a powerful new artificial intelligence model, GPT-4.1, which the company claimed "excelled" in the following instructions. But the results of numerous independent tests suggest that the model is less aligned - i.e. less reliable - compared to the previous Openai versions. When Openai launches a new model, it generally publishes a detailed technical relationship containing the results of the first and third part safety assessments.

After a couple of lazy years, Fintech seems to return. In the first quarter of 2025, the Fintech startups globally collected $ 10.3 billion combined, marking the highest level of financing from the first quarter of 2023, according to CB Insights Research. The average size of the $ 17.7 million agreement also marked the highest since 2021. In particular, several start-ups relating to cryptocurrencies are among those that collect larger rounds in 2025, a reflection of the renewed appetite of investors in space.

The California Blue Shield Giant of Health Insurance Giant is notifying millions of data violation. The company confirmed Wednesday who had shared the information on private health of patients with the Giant of technology and advertising Google since 2021. The insurer said that the sharing of the data stopped in January 2024, but learned only in February that the collection of years contained personal and sensitive health information of patients.

Trump rates overturned global trade and created an uncertainty environment. But this situation was not created in the void. The rules of business have moved for years while the technology moves more quickly than regulation, the geopolitics descends into turbulence and the Herod Law and becomes harmonized. Could companies wonder, how are they destined to keep their heads out of the water?