Étiquette : artificial intelligence (Page 4 of 26)

AI data centers won’t have to disclose water use in California

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“ Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He says California is “well positioned” to support the data center boom, and he is reluctant to “impose rigid reporting requirements.” The governor signed other bills on water supply goals, groundwater dispute resolution, and water theft from fire hydrants.”

Source : AI data centers won’t have to disclose water use in California – Los Angeles Times

What billionaire Peter Thiel said in his private ‘Antichrist lectures’

Peter Thiel speaks at the Cambridge Union in 2024. (Nordin Catic/Getty Images)

“In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents “off-the-record,” according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but also threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings. “In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI. Thunberg has criticized global capitalism as a driver of environmental degradation while Yudkowsky advocates for limiting AI research to prevent the technology from surpassing human intelligence.”

Source : What billionaire Peter Thiel said in his private ‘Antichrist lectures’ – The Washington Post

Deloitte and Anthropic Alliance

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“Together, Deloitte and Anthropic help organizations deploy trustworthy AI at scale to improve efficiency, elevate user experiences, and address complex challenges. With Claude by Anthropic now available to 470,000 Deloitte professionals worldwide, we’re setting a new standard for industry-specific AI adoption, innovation, and service.
Deloitte’s holistic approach, anchored in its Trustworthy AI™ (TAI) Framework, integrates seamlessly with Anthropic’s Constitutional AI (CAI) deployment, leveraging Deloitte’s experience in large-scale system integration to help clients develop operational safeguards that manage risk and foster innovation through Anthropic’s class-leading models. Deloitte stands ready to implement Claude in any industry, with more than 5,000 delivery centers, 10,000 strategy and analytics practitioners, and over 800 professionals certified through the first formal training and certification program introduced by any Anthropic alliance.”

Source : Deloitte and Anthropic Alliance | Deloitte US

Deloitte Australia to partially refund $290,000 report filled with suspected AI-generated errors

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“Deloitte Australia will partially refund the 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) paid by the Australian government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment and references to nonexistent academic research papers. The financial services firm’s report to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was originally published on the department’s website in July.
A revised version was published Friday after Chris Rudge, a Sydney University researcher of health and welfare law, said he alerted the media that the report was “full of fabricated references.” Deloitte had reviewed the 237-page report and “confirmed some footnotes and references were incorrect,” the department said in a statement Tuesday. “Deloitte had agreed to repay the final instalment under its contract,” the department said. The amount will be made public after the refund is reimbursed.
Asked to comment on the report’s inaccuracies, Deloitte told The Associated Press in a statement the “matter has been resolved directly with the client.” Deloitte did not respond when asked if the errors were generated by AI. ”

Source : Deloitte Australia to partially refund $290,000 report filled with suspected AI-generated errors | AP News

Aux Etats-Unis, l’IA bouleverse déjà le marché du travail et les prédictions de « jobs apocalypse » se multiplient

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“Pendant que les géants de la Silicon Valley investissent des milliards de dollars dans les serveurs de l’IA, les entreprises apprennent à utiliser cet outil à marche forcée, sachant qu’il y va de leur avenir, voire de leur survie. Aux Etats-Unis, toute firme soupçonnée de ne pas l’adopter assez rapidement est attaquée en Bourse, à l’instar du géant Accenture, dont l’action a perdu un tiers de sa valorisation depuis le début de l’année. Sa patronne, Julie Sweet, a déclaré aux analystes financiers qu’elle allait licencier ses consultants jugés incapables de s’adapter à ces nouvelles technologies : « Nous investissons dans la formation continue. Nous faisons sortir, dans un calendrier serré, les personnes dont la requalification ne constitue pas une solution viable. » Exit ceux qui ne peuvent pas suivre, même si 555 000 consultants sur les 780 000 salariés du groupe ont été formés. Il est délicat de savoir si ces personnes licenciées correspondent au flux normal des départs. Reste que le message est clair : point de salut sans l’IA.”

Source : Aux Etats-Unis, l’IA bouleverse déjà le marché du travail et les prédictions de « jobs apocalypse » se multiplient

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

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“Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it. Fund manager and former Morgan Stanley investor Ruchir Sharma warned in a recent piece for the Financial Times that the US economy has turned into “one big bet on AI.” “AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025,” he wrote. “That is helping to fund and drive US growth, as the AI-driven stock market draws in money from all over the world, and feeds a boom in consumer spending by the rich.””

Source : Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

Les entreprises plongées dans le brouillard juridique du recrutement avec les IA émotionnelles

“Entré en vigueur en juin 2024, le premier volet du règlement européen sur l’intelligence artificielle (AI Act), qui porte sur les IA interdites, intègre dans le cadre du travail ces outils de déduction des émotions. « La base scientifique des systèmes d’IA visant à identifier ou à déduire les émotions suscite de vives inquiétudes, d’autant plus que l’expression des émotions varie considérablement d’une culture à l’autre et d’une situation à l’autre, voire au sein d’un même individu, souligne le règlement. Parmi les principales lacunes de ces systèmes figurent leur fiabilité limitée, leur manque de spécificité et leur capacité limitée de généralisation. »
La Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés met d’ailleurs en garde les entreprises : « Ce n’est pas parce que ces solutions sont en vente qu’elles sont légales et conformes d’un point de vue de la protection des données », prévient Eric Delisle, chef de service juridique de cette entité, en rappelant que c’est aux entreprises qu’il revient de s’assurer sur ce point qu’elles sont bien dans la légalité. L’avertissement vaut d’autant plus que ce texte encore récent invite à la prudence dans son interprétation.”

Source : Les entreprises plongées dans le brouillard juridique du recrutement avec les IA émotionnelles

China tests underwater data centres to reduce AI carbon footprint

An underwater data centre being developed by Chinese maritime technology company Highlander is seen under construction at a shipyard in Nantong, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, on September 11, 2025

“The technology was trialled by Microsoft off the coast of Scotland in 2018, but the Chinese project, to be sunk in mid-October, is one of the world’s first commercial services of its kind.It will serve clients such as China Telecom and a state-owned AI computing company and is part of a broader government push to lower data centres’ carbon footprint.“Underwater facilities can save around 90 per cent of energy consumption for cooling,” said Yang, vice-president of Highlander.Projects like this are currently focused on showing “technological feasibility”, said expert Shaolei Ren from the University of California, Riverside.”

Source : China tests underwater data centres to reduce AI carbon footprint | South China Morning Post

Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs : le rapport final du Shift Project

Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs : 
L’insoutenable croissance de l’offre et des usages

“En plein « phénomène IA », The Shift Project a choisi d’éclairer le sujet avec son prisme : la vision physique. Pour ce faire, nous avons étudié une composante clé des infrastructures du numérique, la filière centre de données, et la manière dont elle se construit en interaction avec l’intelligence artificielle, principal déterminant de ses dynamiques aujourd’hui.
Le programme numérique du Shift Project (voir l’ensemble de nos travaux) mène et documente depuis plusieurs années une réflexion sur les pratiques et actions qui permettent de limiter les impacts environnementaux directs et indirects du numérique, sans empêcher l’effet net des potentiels leviers qu’il propose en matière de transition écologique.
Le numérique est un secteur non négligeable : il représentait déjà 3 à 4 % des émissions mondiales en 2020 (The Shift Project, 2021), soit du même ordre que l’intégralité des poids lourds dans le monde (IEA, 2021) et avec une augmentation de 6 %/an en moyenne de cette empreinte. À l’échelle française, il représentait 4,4 % de l’empreinte carbone du pays en 2022 (ADEME, 2025).
Ce nouveau projet trace le contour de la manière dont le déploiement généralisé de l’IA infléchit ces dynamiques déjà insoutenables. Il éclaire les pistes à suivre pour réorienter ”

Source : Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs : le rapport final du Shift – The Shift Project

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

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“In a brief test by TechCrunch, Neon did not offer any indication that it was recording the user’s call, nor did it warn the call recipient. The app worked like any other voice-over-IP app, and the caller ID displayed the inbound phone number, as usual. (We’ll leave it to security researchers to attempt to verify the app’s other claims.)
Neon founder Alex Kiam didn’t return a request for comment.
Kiam, who is identified only as “Alex” on the company website, operates Neon from a New York apartment, a business filing shows.
A LinkedIn post indicates Kiam raised money from Upfront Ventures a few months ago for his startup, but the investor didn’t respond to an inquiry from TechCrunch as of the time of writing.”

Source : Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch

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