This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 2)
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Summary
This week, The Information reported that OpenAI is set to launch its new GPT-5 language model, boasting improvements including the ability to complete computer programming and maths tasks.
In other news, the Wall Street Journal reported that big tech firms including Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are to spend $400bn on AI infrastructure this year, a sum greater than the EU’s defence spend last year.
The New York Times revealed that scientists are working to create microbes with streamline genetic codes, perhaps suggesting that these codes are not necessarily essential for life.
Physicists have created the first ever antimatter qubit, marking another phenomenon in the progress of quantum mechanics.
AI is soon to use more electricity than human residents in the US state of Wyoming, with a forthcoming data centre consuming initially 1.8GW and scaling up to 10GW.
Finally, next generation mobile network services in Japan are to be tested from the stratosphere, from a height of 20km, offering competition to satellite-based services such as Starlink.
