Good morning. By 2030, the AI ecosystem will need about $2.6 trillion in annual end-market spending to support data centers, chips, model development, and investor returns, according to a BCG Institute analysis. Enterprises would account for $1.8 trillion of that total, followed by consumers at $366 billion, hyperscalers’ internal use at $204 billion, and emerging
When Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj asked her mentor Daniel Cohen, a Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, whether he had time to keep teaching interns with his busy workload, he answered, “You decide what’s important.” In honor of National Mentoring Day on Oct. 27, Bhardwaj reflects on how Cohen’s
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival wrapped its ninth edition Friday after nine days of screenings, industry activity and a closing night that spread its top prizes across the Middle East and beyond. Mohammed Hammad’s “Safe Exit,” a psychological drama about a young Coptic security guard in Cairo confronting trauma rooted in religious violence, won the
Judi Dench, who played Old Deuteronomy in Tom Hooper’s “Cats,” is reflecting on the universally panned film in her forthcoming memoir, “Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?” Released in 2019, the film adapted Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful musical of the same name. But despite its stacked cast — which also
Forward-deployed engineers are all the rage in AI, and Anthropic is going to other companies to train up top talent. The AI company announced a $100 million investment into an FDE training initiative earlier this month. It’s a quasi-fellowship that engineers from other firms have already begun applying for. They’ll attend four-day on-site intensives and
Nene Royal, a 16-year-old rocker, has been crowned the latest winner of America’s Got Talent – making her the first ever Thai winner of the long-running talent show. For the show’s finals on Tuesday in California, Nene, whose real name is Rattikarn Amloy, performed a rendition of Seven Nation Army by American rock duo The
