Snapshot · Freakonomics Radio
ExtremeGammon (XG), the leading backgammon analysis software released in 2009, was purchased by Travis Kalanick, founder and former CEO of Uber, with plans for significant AI investment.
Nevada utility NV Energy informed Lake Tahoe-area provider Liberty Utilities it will stop delivering power to approximately 50,000 residents after May 2027, redirecting supply to data centers.
Data centers are reportedly underreporting how much electricity they plan to consume, causing utility companies to redirect supply away from residential customers.
A Commonwealth Short Story Prize-winning story appears to have been AI-generated, with the editor's response described as a shrug, raising questions about AI's role in literary awards.
Because vastly more bad writing exists than good writing online, LLMs statistically learn from poor-quality sources like anime fan fiction rather than great literature.
The CHIPS Act has helped grow the US share of leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing from 12% to approximately 18%, though 50% remains the longer-term goal.
Taiwan holds less than 3 weeks of energy reserves, meaning a Chinese blockade alone — without firing a single shot — could brown out the island and halt its semiconductor fabs.
A brownout of Taiwan's semiconductor fabs would cause an economic impact greater than the Great Depression, according to Gelsinger, because fabs take 90 days to restart after being turned off.
Pat Gelsinger predicts meaningful quantum computing results will arrive before 2030 — approximately 40 months away — solving problems that are impossible to compute today.
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