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To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, game rooms, and a cafeteria that grills steaks on-demand. A company called Target Hospitality has signed multiple contracts worth a total…

On Thursday, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively blacklisting the AI startup from doing business with the US government. Loading audio narration… In a recent internal memo, obtained by The Information, CEO Dario Amodei said the Trump administration opposes the company because it hasn’t donated to the president or offered the kind of “dictator-style” praise he said competitors had.Sometimes, the solution to a problem is right in front of you. If Dario wants to get off the Pentagon’s naughty list, he can just follow the lead of more experienced tech leaders who have managed to stay in…

About half of the global population menstruates at some point in their lives. Disposable products, such as tampons and pads, are some of the most popular products used around the globe to manage menstrual flow.Unfortunately, studies have shown that many personal care products, including shampoo, lotion, nail polish and menstrual products, contain hazardous chemicals. Items used in or near the vagina are of particular concern because they are in contact with vaginal mucous membranes – the moist tissue lining the inside of the vagina that secretes mucus. These tissues can absorb some chemicals very efficiently.People use menstrual products 24 hours…

Fed up with doomscrolling and worried their attention spans are shrinking, some Gen Z-ers are tracking what they watch and read to stop scrolling.Across TikTok, Substack, and Instagram, younger generations are sharing weekly roundups of the books, films, podcasts, and long-form articles they have consumed — often under the banner of “media I consumed instead of doomscrolling.”Social cataloging apps designed to track and share media consumption have risen in popularity, while content on creating physical media journals is also trending.Gen Zers and millennials engaging in the trend say the practice is helping them become more intentional with the media they…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Georgian Tutuianu, a 36-year-old AI engineer at HubSpot, based in Boston. His identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I started my career as a structural engineer. I went from traditional engineering, to software engineering, to AI engineering, which I’m doing now at HubSpot.While I was a structural engineer, there was a lot of new technology coming out with machine learning. There seemed to be a lot of opportunities to integrate it in the field. So I…

The memory crisis is making it more expensive to build consumer electronics. So, without the supply-chain leverage of a tech giant, how does a startup making computers survive? Loading audio narration… We put the question to Nirav Patel, the CEO of Framework, a small PC company with a cult following that sells modular computers. Its business also relies on memory chips, which are facing a global shortage.As AI companies grow their compute needs, hyperscalers are demanding more memory chips from the three primary producers: Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. That’s caused prices to increase and supply to be tied up…

It started with a mysterious slack from our editor-in-chief, Jamie Heller: Can you talk now? It was the kind of urgent message you never want to get from your boss’ boss. What did I do? Am I in trouble? Is she laying me off? I scoured my brain for all the ways I’d probably disappointed her and the correspondingly appropriate ways I could apologize for those offenses. Then she called me to give me the news: She wanted to send me to Davos in January.I’ve known about Davos, the World Economic Forum’s annual conference that gathers the global elite, for…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Megan Worthy still recalls singing in a choir in the Australian capital, Canberra, as she was growing up.Now, as a rare form of early-onset dementia chips away at her vision and other brain functions, the 58-year-old is transported back to her musical youth as she and her daughter, Bronte, sing together with other people with neurological conditions in an Amsterdam concert hall, the Concertgebouw.“It’s pretty brutal,” Worthy said of her rare neurological condition. “I’m starting to lose everything, you know, and this is really rewarding and seeing all these people, yeah, it did make me have a…

While Washington’s breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like. The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week’s Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved. “There’s something quite remarkable that has happened in America just in the last four months,” said Max Tegmark, the MIT physicist and AI researcher who helped organize the effort, in conversation with this editor. “Polling…

Many other OpenAI staffers have also publicly criticized the company’s Pentagon deal.”i personally don’t think this deal was worth it,” Aidan McLaughlin, a research scientist at OpenAI, wrote on X.Another employee told CNN that many of them “really respect” Anthropic for refusing the Pentagon’s deal.Clive Chan, a technical staffer, wrote in an X post that he believed OpenAI’s contract barred the use of its models for mass weapons or mass domestic surveillance. Chan wrote that he’s advocating for the company to share more information.”If we later learn this is not the case, then I will advocate internally to terminate the…