MIT Technology Review’s new analysis provides a comprehensive look at the energy consumption of artificial intelligence systems, revealing significant environmental impacts that are often overlooked. The research, part of the “Power Hungry: AI and our energy future” series, examined AI’s energy demands down to individual queries and traced the industry’s expanding carbon footprint. According to …
A new report from Poe provides insights into AI model usage trends from January to May 2025, showing significant shifts in user preferences across text, reasoning, image, video, and audio generation models. The report draws on aggregated usage data from Poe’s platform, which offers users provider-agnostic access to various AI models. Assistants: According to the …
A new AWS study reveals that generative AI has surpassed cybersecurity as the primary budget focus for IT leaders heading into 2025. According to the AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, 45% of organizations prioritize generative AI spending over security tools (30%). The research indicates that 90% …
New research seems to show that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on jobs or wages so far. Economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard analyzed data from 11 occupations across 25,000 workers in Denmark, according to The Register. Despite rapid adoption of AI tools, users reported average time savings of …
China’s ByteDance is transforming data from its popular apps TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao into a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence, reports Meaghan Tobin of The New York Times. The company collects behavioral data from approximately 170 million U.S. TikTok users and around 1 billion users of its Chinese apps. This wealth of information has become …
ChatGPT surpassed Instagram and TikTok to become the world’s most downloaded non-game app in March 2024, according to app intelligence provider Appfigures. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reports that the AI chatbot saw downloads increase by 28% from February, reaching 46 million new installations. This represents ChatGPT’s biggest month ever and its first time topping the …
Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index reveals that AI training costs have reached unprecedented levels, with Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra costing approximately $192 million to train. The comprehensive report, analyzed by Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum, highlights both challenges and progress in the AI field through 12 significant graphs. Despite rising training expenses, the cost of …
A new Pew Research Center report reveals significant gaps between how the American public and AI experts perceive artificial intelligence. According to researcher Colleen McClain’s findings, while experts are largely optimistic about AI’s impact (56% positive), only 17% of the general public shares this enthusiasm. The surveys, conducted in 2024, show that AI specialists are …
Analyst firm Gartner forecasts that global spending on generative AI will reach $644 billion in 2025, representing a 76.4% increase from 2024. According to the report detailed by Sean Michael Kerner in VentureBeat, hardware will account for approximately 80% of this spending, with devices alone claiming $398.3 billion. John Lovelock, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, …
OpenAI has closed a historic $40 billion funding round, marking the largest private tech investment ever recorded. The deal, led by SoftBank with a $30 billion commitment, values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, placing it among the world’s most valuable private companies alongside SpaceX ($350 billion) and ByteDance. The investment syndicate includes Microsoft, Coatue, …