Nation Sep 03 Historic California gold mining town scorched in quick-moving wildfire By Associated Press
Economy Jun 06 AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text as early as 2026 A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032. By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
Arts Nov 21 Watch 7:28 In John Adams’ new Gold Rush opera, cultures clash with a tragic ending For contemporary composer John Adams, it was three notes that launched his latest opera: the sound of a pick axe “chipping away at stone.” Premiering at the San Francisco Opera, "Girls of the Golden West," a collaboration with director Peter… By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe, Mike Fritz
World Jul 10 Watch Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold…
Economy Nov 25 Watch Dollar’s Weakness Inspires Modern-day Gold Rush As part of his series Making Sense of the financial crisis, Paul Solman looks at how the dollar's weakness has spurred a new gold rush.