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WattScale is an open source AI tool that identifies energy-wasting homes

Venture Beast

Researchers developed an AI tool -- WattScale -- that can identify energy-inefficient homes anywhere in a region with sufficient data. Read More.

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Square Will Invest $5 Million to Build an Open-Source, Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

Gizmodo

Square, the digital payments firm led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is teaming up with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining to build an open-source, solar-powered bitcoin mining facility at one of Blockstream’s U.S. Read more.

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Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch project to discover better ways to store renewable energy

Venture Beast

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University will use AI to search for electrocatalysts to enable scalable renewable energy storage. Read More.

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Gen AI without the risks

CIO Business Intelligence

Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Answering 100 million+ generative AI questions a day can burn 1 Gigawatt-hour of electricity, which is roughly the daily energy use of 33,000 US households. Learn more. [1]

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OpenHaystack is a new open-source tool that lets you create DIY AirTags on Apple’s Find My network

The Verge

OpenHaystack is a new open-source tool developed by security researchers at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab , who have essentially reverse-engineered the way Apple devices register themselves to the Find My mesh network. OpenHaystack works via a custom Mac app that can be used to track the location of custom tags that you create.

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Given the importance of being able to control data access and respect privacy and regulatory concerns while harnessing GenAI’s tremendous potential, Dell Technologies and Intel have been investigating GenAI implementations, open-source models, and alternatives to trillion-plus parameter models.

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Allen Institute for AI promises new insights into large language models with OLMo release

GeekWire

(AI2 Image) The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying data and code meant to significantly improve understanding of how generative AI actually works. Eliminating redundancies improves energy efficiency in AI research, as well, AI2 says.