Yahoo Finance AI Weekly: booming bots, jittery investors, hot planet
STORY: From a record-breaking tumble for Nvidia, to why bots could be bad news for climate change, this is AI Weekly.
OpenAI says ChatGPT now has over 200 million weekly users.
That’s double the number late last year, and comes less than two years after launch.
The bot sparked the whole AI boom, which has upended the world of tech.
Chipmaker Nvidia has been among the big winners, again posting forecast-beating results.
Shares in the firm still tumbled, however, as its outlook for the coming months disappointed some investors.
On Tuesday Nvidia saw $279 billion wiped off its market value - a one-day record for any U.S. company.
Dell says soaring demand for AI servers prompted it to raise full-year sales and profit forecasts.
That was driven by a partnership with Nvidia, and made up for a weak showing on PCs.
French President Emmanuel Macron says it’s time Europe developed its own AI model.
He says the continent can’t afford to rely on American or Chinese bots.
Macron says that would leave Europe less than fully sovereign.
And AI may not be great news for climate change, with data centers set to produce 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions through the end of the decade.
That’s according to research by Morgan Stanley.
The estimate comes as firms including Microsoft and Amazon race to expand the energy-guzzling computer warehouses.
