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Bill Gates believes that the acceleration of artificial intelligence could worsen job losses and inequality without oversight and regulation, and proposes taxes on the use of automated systems and areas of work reserved for humans. However, experts question the feasibility of imposing such taxes and warn of their competitive effects.
TerraPower is preparing to announce its first project to supply a data center with nuclear power, leveraging a design that stores heat in molten sodium instead of directly ramping the reactor’s output up or down. This could give it greater flexibility in handling the fluctuating demand of AI data centers.