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Bank of America kept its 2,000-intern class while headcount fell to 211,304, even as its own AI tools absorbed junior-level work.
Gemma 4 12B runs locally on macOS, but Google’s own 16GB Air benchmark is 15 tokens per second, and Gallery still lists only Google models.
UN scientists tie AI data centres’ 9.3 trillion litre water bill to electricity, so grid mix and siting set the total, not only cooling towers.
ChartNet’s 1.5 million labeled plots let a 2B Granite model beat GPT-4o on chart extraction, while the trainable split arrived later under a permissive license.
OpenAI and Anthropic took $217 billion, 43% of H1 venture funding, while first-time funds and pre-ChatGPT startups starved.
AIDE’s company score puts SLB with Nvidia at 100 and Microsoft 17th behind Halliburton, while Energy’s sector median still lags as an Emerging Adopter.
Anthropic’s $65 billion Series H values Claude’s maker at $965 billion, with memory chipmakers and Amazon buying a stake in their own customer.
Starbucks ties 25% of tech bonuses to AI use after killing its store inventory scanner and scheduling a $30 million tech cut.
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation pledged $50 million for 1,000 African clinics, yet the plan is silent on cloud, chips, and who keeps the patient data.
Stak Energy wants a 50-year North Slope lease for off-grid AI power, yet turbines, fiber, and a final state yes remain open.
