It's issue #216 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
Brutal temperatures in New Delhi, reaching as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, have claimed over 100 lives. Read about how delivery riders are coping with India’s extreme heat wave.
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Taking a closer look at AI’s supposed energy apocalypse
AI is just one small part of data centers’ soaring energy use.
World's biggest music labels sue over AI copyright
Firms including Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records say Suno and Udio have committed copyright infringement on an "almost unimaginable scale".
Political deepfakes top list of malicious AI use, DeepMind finds
Artificial intelligence is used more to create realistic but fake celebrity images than to assist cyber attacks, Google unit says.
‘Rizz’ vs. ‘skibidi’: Why some slang words stick around and others fade away
What gives some slang staying power? Linguistic experts weigh in on Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang words.
Missing Bats: How culture and tech converged to spread baseball’s strikeout gospel
Missing Bats, a special series this week in The Athletic, explores how baseball’s profound metamorphosis over the last two decades traces back to one simple idea — maximizing strikeouts at all costs — that became an industry-wide obsession. Explore the entire series here.
There’s an invidious ‘tech bro’ culture in AI – what the sector needs is women
AI represents a huge technological step forward, writes Labour MP Harriet Harman. But we need robust regulations to prevent bias and discrimination from becoming embedded in datasets that could one day be part of our everyday infrastructure.
Israel Opposes Rebuilding Gaza’s Internet Access Because Terrorists Could Go Online
Israel destroyed much of Gaza’s internet infrastructure. A Saudi proposal to rebuild it was watered down after Israeli and U.S. protests.
Flipkart & PhonePe On Path To Profitability, Says Walmart CFO
Walmart CFO said that “improving” losses are giving Walmart a “lot of confidence” in what Flipkart’s financial profile would look in a few years.
AI could kill creative jobs that ‘shouldn’t have been there in the first place,’ OpenAI’s CTO says
The chief technology officer of OpenAI warns that the technology could in fact cause job displacement in the creative industry. She questions, however, whether those jobs really needed to exist.
Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta’s generative AI model into Apple Intelligence.
Honorary mentions
Argentina’s OnlyFans stars are coaching a new generation of performers
Why a strong visual identity is as important to your workforce as it is to consumers
Spotify on ‘artificial streaming’
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