Category: environment
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Rethinking the Environmental Costs of Training AI — Why We Should Look Beyond Hardware
Rethinking the Environmental Costs of Training AI — Why We Should Look Beyond Hardware Summary of This Study Hardware choices – specifically hardware type and its quantity – along with training time, have a significant positive impact on energy, water, and carbon footprints during AI model training, whereas architecture-related factors do not. The interaction between…
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STAT+: Few drugmakers embrace a newer test for contamination, placing horseshoe crabs at risk
STAT+: Few drugmakers embrace a newer test for contamination, placing horseshoe crabs at risk Many large drugmakers are still using a decades-old test — derived from horseshoe crabs — as a go-to tool for detecting contamination in medicines and vaccines, rather than switching to a cheaper and equally effective alternative, according to a survey by…