From Text To Tables: Why Structured Data Is AI’s Next $600B Frontier

Tabular foundation models are the next major unlock for AI adoption, especially in industries sitting on massive databases of ...
Reuters

Meta pledge to use less personal data for ads gets EU nod, avoids daily fines

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Meta's (META.O), opens new tab proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising in its pay-or-consent model that will be rolled out next month won the approval ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...
Hacker

Entity Framework vs Dapper: Which ORM Should You Use for Your Next .NET Project?

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Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
The Conversation

AI is using your data to set personalised prices online. It could seriously backfire

Nitika Garg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
IEEE

Named Entity Recognition Method Based on Fusion of Chinese Character and Word Features Using BERT Model

Abstract: To address the issues of low accuracy and insufficient utilization of text information in the compliance recognition of text data of power marketing online cooperative channel business, this ...
Phoenix New Times

Phoenix data center water use could jump 900% in 6 years, study says

Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...
The Shreveport Times

A Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. Why it will use up state's water, electricity

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Environmental group sues Racine to release expected water use at Microsoft data center

An environmental group is suing the city of Racine, Wisconsin, for failing to disclose projected water use for a Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant. The lawsuit alleges the city of Racine ...
Forbes

How Starbucks Is Using Data And AI To Deliver Joy And Connection To Its Customers

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. How does a venerable American brand known for creating the ...
Computer Weekly

European court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework data-sharing agreement

Europe’s General Court has upheld the lawfulness of the data-sharing agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) following a legal challenge. The court today dismissed legal ...