Today, Microsoft is launching several collaborations with news organizations to adopt generative AI. In a year where billions of people will vote in democratic elections worldwide, journalism is critical to creating healthy information ecosystems, and it is our mission to ensure that newsrooms can innovate to serve this year and in the future.
Microsoft says, using Azure Quantum Elements HPC resources to run simulations and AI models, it found a material that could replace ~70% of lithium in a battery (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91006385/microsofts-lithium-battery-research-bottle-rocket-azure-quantum-elements
http://www.techmeme.com/240109/p17#a240109p17
Satya Nadella on the bigger vision behind Microsoft’s new battery
https://www.fastcompany.com/91006385/microsofts-lithium-battery-research-bottle-rocket-azure-quantum-elements?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Fast Co. Technology
https://flipboard.com/@fastcompany/fast-co.-technology-981qjnp5z?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Make sure you read Editor-at-Large for The Verge, David Pierce's @davidpierce Fediverse love note...
2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse >>> https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
Check out David's post here: https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111607314331844783
Benjamin Wittes has it right over on Threads:
"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is profoundly complicated in a moral sense, and I have a deep problem with anyone who cannot appreciate that complexity. The Russia-Ukraine war is profoundly uncomplicated in a moral sense, and I have a deep problem with anyone who cannot appreciate that lack of complexity."
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