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Training and serving AI models requires staggering amounts of electricity. Utilities, chipmakers and cloud providers are racing to keep up.

Compact models that run on laptops and phones are good enough for a surprising range of tasks — with big wins for privacy, latency and cost.

Will quantum computers supercharge machine learning? A sober look at what the physics allows and what the timelines really are.

GPUs dominate today, but custom accelerators from cloud providers and startups are multiplying. A guide to the silicon behind the AI boom.

Pilot programmes are putting general-purpose humanoid robots to work in warehouses and plants. Early results, challenges and what workers think.