Fueling seamless AI at scale

Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which took AI mainstream, hinges on two phases—training and inference—that are data and energy-intensive in terms of computation, data movement, and cooling. At the same time, Moore’s Law, which determines that the number of transistors on…

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The pay gap between men and women won’t go away

That women earn less than men in rich countries is so well-known it is often met with a shrug. The gender wage gap is one of ten indicators in our annual “glass-ceiling index”, ranking how women fare in the workplace. On most measures, including representation on boards and in parliaments, countries improve each year. But…

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The dangers of stablecoins

This article is an on-site version of our Chris Giles on Central Banks newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jay Powell was “one of the dumbest, and most destructive,…

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