Shudder’s new indie sci-fi shocker is one of the most unsettling horror movies I’ve seen in years

Steeped in old-school horror tropes, Grammy-winning musician, rapper, producer and filmmaker Flying Lotus’ (V/H/S/99) new-to-streaming phantasmagoria, Ash, is primed and pumped to provide all the high-octane cosmic nightmare fuel you might ever want to tank up on. With its first-person shooter video game pedigree and obvious homages to films like John Carpenter’s The Thing and…

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Inside the effort to tally AI’s energy appetite

AI video is on another level When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required to produce even a low-quality, five-second video to be pretty shocking: It was 42,000 times more than the amount needed for a chatbot answer a question about a recipe, and enough to power a microwave…

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