one state is now america’s clean energy paradise

if going green is your thing, you may want to move to this state.

by rick richardson
technology this week

americans don’t have to imagine living in a nation where one in three people has rooftop solar power, 15 percent of new cars are electric, and massive batteries store energy after the sun sets.

all they need to do is visit hawaii.

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hawaii promised to be “coal-free by ’23,” and in just 21 years, state law requires the use of only clean energy. this month, a massive 185-megawatt battery near honolulu hummed into full operation, bringing the aim closer to reality.

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microsoft moves further into nuclear development with new director

coming soon: a global plan for microsoft’s data centers to be powered by microreactors and small modular reactors.

by rick richardson
technology this week

data centers are recognized for using an astonishing amount of energy. experts say they account for 1.5 percent to 2 percent of all electricity worldwide.

to become more environmentally conscious and to combat climate change, it companies have mainly concentrated on powering these through sustainable and renewable energy sources. however, the effort is becoming more difficult because of the growing energy demand brought about by introducing new technologies such as artificial intelligence because this field alone uses around four times as much power as servers use for cloud applications.

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in recognition of the impending challenges on its data centers, microsoft appointed a director of nuclear development acceleration, an arguably contentious move.

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do you focus on data or decisions?

the difference defines your work future in the ai world.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

imagine there is no artificial intelligence.

i know it is tough to imagine this, but for the next two minutes, just imagine there is no ai.

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how have you been working as an accounting professional without ai so far?
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nuclear battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

you would need a new phone before you ran out of juice.

by rick richardson
technology this week

a new nuclear battery created by a chinese company might power your phone for 50 years with no need to be charged.

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at 15 x 15 x 5 mm, betavolt technology says it has successfully shrunk atomic energy batteries. through the process of radioactive decay, the small battery produces 100 microwatts and a voltage of 3v using 63 nuclear isotopes.

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what could accounting-specific ai bring?

 

new tools are being built for finance. how can accountants best leverage them?

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

bloomberg released a research paper detailing the development of bloomberggpt, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (ai) specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support diverse natural language processing (nlp) tasks within the financial industry.

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according to bloomberg, “the team pulled from this extensive archive of financial data to create a comprehensive 363 billion token dataset consisting of english financial documents. this data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus with over 700 billion tokens. using a portion of this training corpus, the team trained a 50-billion parameter decoder-only causal language model.”

imagine how long it will take for a human being to grasp that volume of data!
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