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The Register: Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators. “AI-driven datacenter energy needs are causing a shortage of gas turbines to power generators, with some operators reportedly turning to old aircraft engines instead.”

Ars Technica: Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer. “Today, Google and a large collection of academic collaborators are publishing a paper describing a computational approach that demonstrates a quantum advantage compared to current algorithms—and may actually help us achieve something useful.”

University of Exeter: International experts on Artificial Intelligence gather for launch of new University research centre. “A new interdisciplinary research centre with a mission to investigate Artificial Intelligence has been launched by the University of Exeter. The Critical AI Centre (CrAIC) will explore the complex and evolving roles and…

North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host Virtual Program on the American Indian Heritage Commission Oral History Project. “Celebrate American Indian Heritage Month by listening to some of North Carolina’s American Indians discuss their history in their own voices during an upcoming virtual Lunch…

The Register: Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets . “Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Mark Cuban, that make it sound as though they’re spewing…

Yale Engineering: Turning to trees for sustainable photoluminescence. “Photoluminescent materials are essential for numerous modern technologies – displays, solar cells, optoelectronic devices and sensors among them. However, most photoluminescent materials in use today rely on toxic metals and non-renewable resources. Now a team of Yale researchers led by first…

Tom’s Hardware: Catastrophic Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to cost UK economy at least $2.5 billion, according to estimates — 5,000 independent organizations decimated by supply chain fallout. “A new report from cybersecurity body, the Cyber Monitoring Centre, has estimated that the recent hack of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and…

TechCrunch: OpenAI requested memorial attendee list in ChatGPT suicide lawsuit. “OpenAI reportedly asked the Raine family — whose 16-year-old son Adam Raine died by suicide after prolonged conversations with ChatGPT — for a full list of attendees from the teenager’s memorial, signaling that the AI firm may try to…

Ars Technica: Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem. “Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this phenomenon…