The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator
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Summary
The AI data centre industry in China is struggling, with falling GPU prices and many new facilities lying empty, as reported by Caiwei Chen in The Download, a daily newsletter that provides a dose of daily news in the technology sector.
OpenAI has created a new image generator designed to generate practical images for use in advertising and graphic design, rather than the more usual surrealist AI pictures.
The Trump administration has created a list of primarily Chinese companies forbidden from buying American chips, including a server maker that sources chips from Nvidia.
A DOGE staffer has provided tech support to a cybercrime ring and bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent.
The US government has hired a vaccine sceptic to conduct a major vaccine study.
Microsoft has unveiled two AI agents, designed to reason deeply, called Analyst and Researcher.
Google has told workers to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion terms from their work and has provided alternative language to use in its place.
Synthesia is offering shares to reward human actors for its AI avatars, in a compensation scheme that is the first of its kind.