While it’s difficult to accurately estimate how much energy AI uses, there’s an understanding that it is energy-hungry. The Financial Times reports the Biden administration, concerned over grid reliability and providing power to data centers powering AI models, pushed back retirement dates for coal power plants in the US.
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Mistral debuts a coding assistant called Codestral.
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told The Verge that Codestral trained in more than 80 coding languages, including “legacy code” like Fortran and COBOL, so it can help coders of all kinds.
Codestral will be available through Mistral’s chatbot Le Chat and through an API.
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Gmail will recategorize low-priority emails.
Emails like airline mileage updates or account confirmations will now go to the Updates tab in Gmail, leaving the Primary tab for very important messages.
Those who want all their emails in the same tab or who still want to see ‘low-priority’ emails can go into settings to change the inbox categories.