With great computing power comes great responsibility—at least for 47% of business leaders polled in a recent survey from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Morning Consult.

That’s the portion of respondents who said they planned on investing more in responsible AI in 2024 than they did this year. A similar share said they expected their board to ask for a plan around responsible AI in the next year, or the board has already done so.

The findings are a sign that businesses are waking up to the safety issues around implementing the next generation of AI, according to Diya Wynn, AWS’s responsible AI lead.

“ChatGPT has been exciting folks, but there’s also been a great question about some of its areas of concern and risk,” Wynn told Tech Brew. “The survey findings are showing that just as much as we’re seeing publicly people talk about the concerns and risks, there are a number of organizations [that] believe responsible AI is a business imperative.”

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Google’s DeepMind unit has unveiled an AI that can more easily conjure up crystal structures in what researchers say could be a major stride toward discovering new materials for uses like batteries, superconductors, and solar panels.

DeepMind’s scientists published a paper this week claiming that the system has already predicted 2.2 million potential new materials and that 380,000 of them are stable enough to be promising candidates for actually being created in a lab. Researchers say the discovery is the equivalent of “nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge” and multiplies the number of stable materials known to humanity.

It’s the latest big scientific breakthrough from Google’s DeepMind, which is dedicated to putting neural networks to work on some of the world’s biggest problems. The division has previously used deep learning in a similar manner to predict millions of protein structures in a database that scientists hope will fuel drug discovery. More recently, DeepMind’s scientists used AI to more accurately predict weather than leading forecasting systems.

DeepMind said the goal of its new system, called Graph Networks for Materials Exploration, or GNoME, is to revamp the way scientists discover new crystal structures that might make for more efficient batteries or better superconductors.

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Massachusetts joined the ranks of the few states that have chosen to make phone calls from jails and prisons free of charge, a move that advocates and officials say dramatically increases incarcerated individuals’ access to connectivity.

As of Friday, inmates and their families will no longer be on the hook to pay the high per-minute rates that private communications providers often charge as the sole contractor at secure facilities. Instead, the state will pick up the tab for all voice calls, including those made from landlines and wireless tablets, according to the text of the law.

It also prevents facilities from further restricting the number of calls that inmates can make, and specifies that calls and video visits can’t be used to replace in-person visitation.

“Financial exploitation in our carceral systems has created barriers for families and their loved ones to stay connected, for the sake of gains by the state and corporations,” Michael Collins, senior director of state and local government affairs at Color Of Change, said in a statement. “The passage of this legislation in Massachusetts sets a national standard for human rights for incarcerated people, a standard we urge other states to follow.”

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Usually, we write about the business of tech. Here, we highlight the *tech* of tech.

Sad girls assemble in Burlington, Vermont: Since you’re here on the internet, we assume you’re privy to the fact that Spotify Wrapped dropped this week, flooding your timelines and feeds with information about what your friends and online acquaintances have been piping into their eardrums this year.

Do we need to know this about each other? Do we even need to know this about ourselves? Perhaps not, but you can’t discount the brilliant marketing strategy: Spotify Wrapped draws eyeballs and generates content. So much content. Tech Brew’s Kelcee Griffis mused Spotify is “just punking us for the attention,” and that sentiment certainly rings true when it comes to the “sound town” stat included in this year’s Wrapped.

Based on hard data tweets, it appears that nearly everyone with a Spotify account is sonically situated in one of three towns: Burlington, Vermont; Cambridge, Massachusetts; or Berkeley, California.

In the end, it doesn’t matter where you are or where Spotify thinks you should be. If we’re relying on the streaming platform’s EOY data dump, there’s probably a Swiftie nearby.