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Artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence - Semiconductors - AI infrastructure - memory chips - high-bandwidth memoryAI’s next bottleneck is memory
The artificial intelligence boom is straining supplies of the advanced memory chips needed to keep powerful processors running, with rising demand beginning to affect the wider electronics industry.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Big Tech - Data centers - Self-medication in Lebanon - capital expenditures - free cash flowsAI is breaking Big Tech’s cash machine
AI is transforming the economics of the world's most profitable technology companies as the enormous cost of computing requires levels of physical investment once unusual for the technology industry.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - AI safety - Sam Altman - technological singularity - recursive self-improvementThe question of "singularity" in AI
Sam Altman says humanity has entered the technological singularity, but evidence that AI is beginning to accelerate its own development raises a harder question about what would prove that threshold has actually been crossed and whether AI could ever realistically be switched off.
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Artificial intelligence - Labor market transformation - GDP growth - Economic growth - Global economyThe productivity gap dividing advanced economies
Productivity growth has slowed sharply across advanced economies, but widening gaps among countries show that investment, technology adoption and the ability to put capital and workers to productive use can determine how much growth is ultimately lost.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Biosecurity - AI biology - Biological research - Infectious diseasesAI-designed viruses and the future of medicine
Researchers have created viable viruses from AI-generated genetic blueprints, demonstrating a technology that could help combat antibiotic resistance while challenging existing biosecurity safeguards.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Sara Minkara - Disability inclusion - Disability rights - LLWBRethinking disability in the halls of power
Marking the launch of a new LLWB-AUB partnership, former U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights Sara Minkara challenged institutions to move disability beyond accessibility and into leadership, diplomacy, technology and public policy.By The Beiruter
