The 80s are Back (on TikTok) | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech
On this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes:
🏢OpenAI’s Expansion: OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s place in the office. The AI firm has partnered with services company PwC, giving over 100,000 of its employees access to custom versions of the AI chatbot. Is this the beginning of OpenAI’s expansion into the office software suite?
🔌Data Center Electricity Woes: A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute says US-based data centers could use up to 9% of total electricity generated in the United States by 2030, more than doubling current consumption rates, due to increased demand for cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence. Can the US electrical grid support this?
💃The 80s are alive on TikTok: The latest trend on TikTok is connecting Gen X and Gen Z – parents dancing like it’s the 1980s. Parents of creators are dancing to Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” to millions of views. Meanwhile, a district court has scheduled hearings for lawsuits filed by TikTok owner ByteDance and a group of TikTok users against a looming ban from the US government.
🎙️Join us as Marketplace's Lily Jamali and Jewel Burks Solomon of Collab Capital break down these stories.