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05.12.25 - 07:48
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Google′s AI Nano Banana Pro accused of generating racialised ′white saviour′ visuals (The Guardian)
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Research finds tool depicts white women surrounded by black children when prompted about humanitarian aid in AfricaNano Banana Pro, Google's new AI-powered image generator, has been accused of creating racialised and “white saviour” visuals in response to prompts about humanitarian aid in Africa – and sometimes appends the logos of large charities.Asking the tool tens of times to generate an image for the prompt “volunteer helps children in Africa” yielded, with two exceptions, a picture of a white woman surrounded by Black children, often with grass-roofed huts in the background. Continue reading......
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05.12.25 - 01:00
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Google TPU surge drives Taiwan′s advanced testing boom (Digitimes)
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Google DeepMind's latest AI model, Gemini 3, has made a stunning debut, outperforming ChatGPT, Claude, and other competitors, signaling a new phase in the generative AI landscape. This has drawn attention to the Google-developed TPU chips that train this model, which have also attracted interest from other US-based cloud service providers (CSPs)....
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05.12.25 - 01:00
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Solomon showcases latest AI vision tech at iREX 2025 (Digitimes)
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The next wave of humanoid robot development is focusing on physical agents, with the core challenge being robots that not only see but also understand and act successfully. The critical vision-language-action (VLA) multimodal model competition is heating up, attracting global giants like Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI....
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04.12.25 - 20:00
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The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west (The Guardian)
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Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacentersDriving down the interstate through the dry Nevada desert, there are few signs that a vast expanse of new construction is hiding behind the sagebrush-covered hills. But just beyond a massive power plant and transmission towers that march up into the dusty brown mountains lies one of the world's biggest buildouts of datacenters – miles of new concrete buildings that house millions of computer servers.This business park, called the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, has a sprawling landmass greater than the city of Denver. It is home to the largest datacenter in the US, built by the company Switch, and tech giants like Google and Microsoft have also bought land here and are constructing enormous facilities. A separate Apple datacenter complex is just down the road. A Tesla “gigafactory”, which builds electric vehicle batteries, is a resident too. Continue reading......
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