Articles Tagged: Artificial Intelligence

Tesla shareholders approve giant pay package for the CEO and former Trump adviser

The Cedar Rapids private college announced it has become one of more than 100 colleges and universities across the U.S. to partner with the Google initiative.

Researchers across the country are working to improve robotic search and rescue missions.

The Des Moines private university will work with Ciudad del Saber, or City of Knowledge, to offer a three-year degree program.

The deal will support construction of large-scale reactors from Westinghouse Electric Co.

The cuts announced Tuesday amount to about a 4 percent reduction in its corporate workforce.

It’s the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a personality

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Panelists at The Gazette’s annual Iowa Ideas conference see artificial intelligence as means of providing ‘actionable insight’ to farmers.

A Cedar Rapids resident wondered how area hospitals are using artificial intelligence. The Gazette’s series Curious Iowa found that AI tools help with time-consuming tasks like note taking, summarizing charts, analyzing images and preparing bills.

Also in today’s Capitol Notebook, Iowa AG Brenna Bird joins a bipartisan coalition urging artificial intelligence firms to protect children from harmful chatbots.

NextEra representatives, during a meeting with nuclear regulators Thursday, said the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, which closed in 2020, needs “a few major pieces of equipment” before it can restart, including cooling towers, the restoration of transmission lines, new offices, warehouse buildings and a new sewage treatment system.

The nation’s dwindling fleet of nuclear plants — including the shuttered Duane Arnold plant in Palo — is being seized upon as one of the most viable ways to quickly feed tech firms’ growing thirst for electricity to power the giant data centers needed for AI projects.

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Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests.