Small Language Models Outperform Frontier AI On Cost, Speed And Accuracy

Bigger has defined AI from day one. New data says task-specific small models beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and speed — and save money.

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with ...

Daubert in the digital age — Proposed Fed. R. Evid. 707

Montes of the Western District of Louisiana discusses proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 707, which would reclassify certain ...
Reuters

EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...
E&E

EU delays data center sustainability label after heavy criticism

The label would benchmark the environmental performance of data centers, using metrics including energy and water efficiency, renewable energy use, and waste heat recovery. BRUSSELS — The European ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Fierce Healthcare

Microsoft, Mayo Clinic plan to build frontier AI model for healthcare

Mustafa Suleyman, executive vice president and CEO, Microsoft AI, and Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia at Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco. (Photo by Dan DeLong) Mayo Clinic plans to develop and ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use

In the late 2000s, “mobile-first” emerged as a design discipline. The argument was a single sentence: don’t design for the big screen and squeeze it down. Start with the small screen, the harder ...
Autoblog

Tesla Model Y Recall Shows How One Missing Label Could Lead To A Crash

View post: This Ford GT Lost Its Heritage Livery To Regain Its Prototype History The operation of a motor vehicle is simple enough; if you’ve gone through the lessons and passed the exams, you are ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...
Computer Weekly

Glasgow researchers use machine learning to build network digital twin

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a new way to test networks, which they claim is 25,000 times faster than traditional approaches. Shenjia Ding, a research student at the ...