OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The big headlines on this release are efficiency, with OpenAI reporting that GPT-5.4 uses far fewer tokens (47% fewer on some tasks) than its predecessors).
IEEE

A Data-Driven Real-Time Optimal Power Flow Algorithm Using Local Feedback in Distribution Networks

Abstract: The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) adds variability as well as fast control capabilities to power networks. Dispatching the DERs based on local information to ...
Forbes

Data-Driven HR: How Leaders Can Turn Workforce Analytics Into Business Advantage

Instinct alone is no longer enough. Leaders in HR are being called on to think and act like strategic operators—aligning talent, culture and compensation decisions directly to business outcomes. The ...
Wired

The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle

As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, ...
WDBJ

Google Data Center’s expected water use made public

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
Business Wire

European Enterprises Adopt Robust Sustainability Practices

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The focus of sustainability efforts by European enterprises is shifting from pure regulatory compliance to achieving measurable financial and operational outcomes, according ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
Morningstar

CytoReason extends its collaboration with Sanofi to advance AI-driven drug discovery

This marks CytoReason's fifth commercial deal of 2025 and builds on its track record with half of the world's top twenty pharma companies, which have leveraged its technology across a range of ...
News Medical

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS join forces to accelerate data-driven cancer care

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and SOPHiA GENETICS today announced a strategic collaboration that unites SOPHiA GENETICS' AI-powered analytics with MD Anderson's clinical and ...