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Guggenheim AI Survey Finds Adoption Surging Across Large IT Enterprises As Mass Layoff Fears Fall Flat

Guggenheim AI Survey Finds Adoption Surging Across Large IT Enterprises As Mass Layoff Fears Fall Flat

Published by Jenni Sidey

Building on Goldman’s estimate that AI adoption across corporate America currently stands at roughly 20.6% and could rise to 24% by year-end, a Guggenheim Securities survey of 150 large-enterprise IT professionals found that 81% of respondents have already deployed AI agents. Anthropic and OpenAI are leading adoption among AI-native platforms, reinforcing the view that the enterprise chatbot and frontier-model battle is increasingly becoming a two-pony race. The survey found that enterprise adoption of AI is quickly accelerating, with 81% of respondents already deploying chatbots. About 42% of employees actively use AI for roughly 22% of the workday, resulting in an estimated 18% productivity gain. According to respondents, AI accounts for an average of roughly 19% of corporate IT budgets, with spending concentrated in software development, data analytics, and IT operations. About half of respondents expect AI to become a separate budget line, while 37% of those firms plan to fund it in part through incremental spending beyond existing IT allocations. The survey also provided more evidence of token cost concerns among respondents: On average, respondents …

New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Bill To Establish Large Load Data Center Tariff

New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Bill To Establish Large Load Data Center Tariff

Published by Jenni Sidey

By Zachary Skidmore of DataCenterDynamics New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill that will direct the state’s Board of Public Utilities (PUC) to establish a dedicated data center tariff for facilities with a capacity of 50MW or more, in an attempt to shield other ratepayers from cost increases tied to new builds. A similar bill was originally proposed in June of last year by Democratic assemblymen Dave Bailey and Joe Danielsen. However, that initial bill was pocket-vetoed by then-governor Phil Murphy, who did not sign it before his term ended. CoreSite’s NY3 data center is located in Secaucus and offers more than 138,000 square feet of capacity.CoreSite Following the veto, the bill was replaced with S731, which proposed broader protections than the previous bill. It will now head to Democratic governor Mikie Sherrill for final approval. Assemblyman David Bailey Jr. said Sherrill’s office was involved in drafting the latest version and expressed optimism she would sign it. The new bill is broader than the previously vetoed bill, applying to both existing and new facilities, and …

Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider

Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of the universe. Since its debut in 2008, the 16.7-mile-wide subatomic smasher buried underneath Switzerland proved the existence of the Higgs boson particle (aka the God particle), highlighted the perplexing nature of muons, and even measured antimatter. Apocalyptic conspiracy theories to the contrary, it expanded on key concepts in quantum physics, while charting a path forward for researchers around the world. Still, all good things must come to an end. On June 29, CERN announced that the LHC had officially entered “Long Shutdown 3,” thus ceasing operations after 18 years of remarkable work. But in keeping with some of the most mindbending quantum physics concepts, the …

Large Hadron Collider enters Long Shutdown 3 to prepare for next era of particle physics

Large Hadron Collider enters Long Shutdown 3 to prepare for next era of particle physics

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has completed its latest physics run and officially entered Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), marking the beginning of the most extensive upgrade programme undertaken at CERN since the collider was originally built. The shutdown will focus on maintaining, modernising and expanding CERN’s accelerator complex in preparation for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC), which is scheduled to begin operations in 2030. The upgraded machine is expected to deliver significantly higher collision rates, allowing scientists to gather much larger datasets and perform more precise investigations into the fundamental structure of the Universe. Although particle beams have now stopped circulating, scientific research at CERN will continue throughout Long Shutdown 3, with thousands of researchers analysing existing experimental data while engineers and technicians transform the accelerator and its detectors for the next generation of discoveries. A remarkable legacy for the Large Hadron Collider Since first circulating proton beams in September 2008, the Large Hadron Collider has established itself as the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and one of the most sophisticated scientific instruments …

Gunman at large after shooting two people near South Los Angeles bar

Gunman at large after shooting two people near South Los Angeles bar

Published by Sam Flores

Two people were injured Thursday night after a man shot them near a bar in South Los Angeles, according to authorities. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a shooting at El Diamante Sports Bar on Figueroa Street around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the LAPD. A man and a woman suffered injuries in the shooting and were taken to local hospitals in stable condition, according to the LAPD. The gunman fled in an unknown vehicle and remains at large, the LAPD said. The investigation is ongoing and the motive is unknown at this time. No further information is available. People were at the bar to watch the World Cup game, according to ABC7. Source link

Asteroid as large as 5 cruise ships will soar past Earth this weekend

Asteroid as large as 5 cruise ships will soar past Earth this weekend

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t in any imminent danger, but the cosmic debris will still come close enough to possibly spot using only a pair of strong binoculars. The asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will pass closest on June 27 at around 7:15 a.m. EDT. It , when it will only be about 1.59 million miles away—over six times the distance between Earth and the moon. Discovered nearly two decades ago, (152637) 1997 NC1 likely measures somewhere between 820 and 1,800 yards-wide based on its reflective sunlight, although astronomers say it may be a bit smaller.  Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the space rock …

2023 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models

2023 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models

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Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required). The audio of the lecture is available here: “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models” by David Chalmers David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University, where he is also co-director of the center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science from Indiana University. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, he taught at Australian National University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. He has authored three books and many articles on consciousness, meaning, …

Boy, 4, ‘abducted’ as he was playing near Cradley Heath pond – suspect still at large | UK | News

Boy, 4, ‘abducted’ as he was playing near Cradley Heath pond – suspect still at large | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A young boy was reportedly abducted while playing near a pond at a Black Country park, police said. West Midlands Police have launched an urgent appeal for information after receiving a report of a four-year-old boy being abducted at Haden Hill Park in Cradley Heath. The child was playing near the fish pond on Thursday when he went missing for several minutes and was later found in nearby woodland. The incident happened as the child’s mother was tending to a baby, and police are now looking for an “offender” in his late teens wearing black clothes. In a statement, he was described as black, short, with curly hair, and clean-shaven. Officers believe this to be an isolated incident and are speaking with the young boy and his family to work out what happened. The force said: “We’re appealing for information after we received a report of a four-year-old boy being abducted at Haden Hill Park in Cradley Heath. The incident took place yesterday (Thurs) shortly after 3pm at the park off Halesowen Road. “The child, …

Speculation in Large Language Models: The Worst Sort of Business

Speculation in Large Language Models: The Worst Sort of Business

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Charles Kindleberger (1910-2003), an MIT economic historian, wrote what many consider the definitive book on speculative bubbles and financial panics, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (1978). He defined a bubble as a sharp rise in price of an asset or a range of assets in a continuous process, with the initial rise generating expectations of further rises and attracting new buyers—generally speculators interested in profits from trading rather than in its use or earning capacity. The fundamental bubble barometer is that speculators buy an asset because they expect the price to keep rising, not because they want the income generated by the asset. Indeed, most speculators don’t plan on holding the asset long enough receive any income. Genuine investors buy assets for the income and would buy an attractively priced asset even if they were prohibited from ever selling it. In his 1938 treatise, The Theory of Investment Value, the great value investor, John Burr Williams (1900‒1989) put it this way: The pure investor…would not need to concern himself with forecasting …

At least 12 shot near Ohio festival, gunmen still at large

At least 12 shot near Ohio festival, gunmen still at large

Published by Sam Flores

At least 12 people were shot Saturday when gunmen, possibly aiming for each other, opened fire near a summer festival in Toledo, Ohio, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Gunfire erupted just after 5:30 p.m. near the Old West End Festival in Toledo from at least two shooters who were “probably shooting at each other,” Toledo’s Deputy Police Chief Joseph Heffernan said. Two of the victims were in critical condition, and the shooters were still at large Saturday night, Heffernan said. Deputy Chief Joseph Heffernan of the Toledo, Ohio, police department provides details about a shooting that left at least 12 people wounded Saturday night.WDIV The oldest victim is 61 and the youngest is 14, police Lt. Dan Gerken said, noting most were in their early 20s. There were several hundred people at the festival at the time, officials said. The annual festival is a beloved tradition in Toledo and features live music, food markets, a beer garden and events for kids. Gerken stressed …