National Bureau of Economic Research

Firm Data on AI

We survey nearly 6,000 senior business executives at US, UK, German, and Australian firms to develop new evidence on AI adoption and its effects on jobs, productivity, and output. Specifically, we ask ...
Wall Street Journal

Locals Are Using AI to Fight Data Centers Being Built in Their Backyards

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...
abc4.com

‘The public deserves to know how much water these data centers use’: New bill would keep AI water use data from public record

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A new bill would keep AI data centers’ water use information from the public record. Now, conservationists are pushing back as over 2 million Utahns remain in a drought. In ...
Forbes

Using Agents To Intelligently Traverse Graph-Based Data Structures

Graphs are everywhere. From technology to finance, they often model valuable information such as people, networks, biological pathways and more. Often, scientists and technologists need to come up ...
iapp.org

Personal data as a dual-use technology: Privacy professionals face new export controls

Editor's note: The IAPP is policy neutral. We publish contributed opinion and analysis pieces to enable our members to hear a broad spectrum of views in our domains ...
IEEE

Reconstructing Network Structures Using Gaussian Mixture Model: From Unsigned to Signed Networks

Abstract: Network reconstruction, which involves inferring a network’s topology from observational data, is a critical challenge in network science. Because observational data are often limited, prior ...
Government Technology

What Is Synthetic Data, and How Is Government Using It?

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
acm.org

Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?

More than 40 copyright-related lawsuits have been filed in U.S. courts against developers of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems. The most common complaint is that the developers ...
InfoWorld

Introduction to Java records: Simplified data-centric programming in Java

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...
Reuters

China spotlights major data centre project using domestic chips

BEIJING, Sept 17 (Reuters) - China Unicom (0762.HK), opens new tab has built a massive data centre powered by domestically developed artificial intelligence chips from Alibaba and other companies, ...