More than a billion messages are sent to AI chatbots every day and each interaction uses water. There are concerns Artificial Intelligence is putting stress on drinking water sources. Here, we explain why AI uses water and how even more will be needed in the future.
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UK businesses are dialing back hiring for jobs that are likely to be affected by the rollout of artificial intelligence, a study found, suggesting the new technology is accentuating a slowdown in the nation’s labor market.
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Elon Musk’s company, xAI, released ‘Grok 4’, its latest model, last week, in response to OpenAI’s GPT-5, which is expected to be released in September. This model, which can analyze images and respond to questions, is deeply integrated into the X social platform.
“With respect to academic questions, Grok 4 is better than PhD level in every subject, and at times, it may lack common sense, and it has not yet invented new technologies or discovered new physics, but that is just a matter of time,” said Elon Musk. [See the product video presentation below.]
xAI also unveiled a new $300-per-month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy, the company’s multi-agent version that offers increased performance.
The plan is similar to ultra-premium tiers offered by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
Musk claimed that Grok 4 Heavy spawns multiple agents to work on a problem simultaneously, and then they all compare their work “like a study group” to find the best answer.
The company ensured that Grok 4 — also released through its API — demonstrates frontier-level performance on several benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last Exam. Grok 4 scored 25.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam without “tools,” outperforming Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, which scored 21.6%, and OpenAI’s o3 (high), which scored 21%.
With “tools,” Grok 4 Heavy was able to achieve a score of 44.4%, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro with tools, which scored 26.9%, according to the company.
xAI announced that its AI coding model will be available in August, a multi-modal agent in September, and a video-generation model in October.
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Educational publisher McGraw-Hill filed this month for an initial public offering (IPO), seeking to obtain funding primarily to repay debt. It will trade on the NYSE under the symbol “MH,” and Goldman Sachs is the lead underwriter for the IPO.
Backed by billionaire Tom Gores’ Platinum Equity, who acquired the company for $4.5 billion in 2021, Columbus, Ohio-based McGraw-Hill is one of the most recognized names in the publishing industry.
It has a global sales team of 1,500 and a yearly revenue of $2.1 billion. Its net loss narrowed to $85.8 million, compared with $193 million the previous year.
The company is pursuing a listing at a time when AI is dramatically reshaping the education industry, and as the IPO market gradually reopens.
In January 2024, Britannica Group, the company behind the 250-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, also filed for an IPO but has not moved forward since.
MacKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha Schools, discusses the positive impacts of artificial intelligence on education.
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In a remote part of China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, dozens of data centers rise from the desert.
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Microsoft announced this week that it will provide over $4 billion in cash, technology services, cloud computing credits, and resources to train students in schools, community colleges, technical colleges, and nonprofits on the use of AI.
The company, which develops the Copilot chatbot, is also launching the Microsoft Elevate Academy to provide AI skills training and certification to 20 million people.
Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, said in an interview, “Microsoft will serve as an advocate to ensure that students in every school across the country have access to AI education.”
The announcement came as tech companies are racing to train millions of teachers and students on their AI tools.
Last week, the American Federation of Teachers, a union representing 1.8 million members, announced the establishment of a national AI training center for educators, with $23 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Last week, several dozen companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI, signed a White House pledge promising to provide schools with funding, technology, and training materials for AI education.
In 2023, Amazon announced a new company program, “AI Ready,” to provide free online Amazon AI skills courses for two million people.
Microsoft President Brad Smith: AI is influencing the types of workers who are hired.
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We’re entering a future where Artificial Intelligence delivers answers that are faster, better, and more personalized than anything a human expert could provide.
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