Month: September 2024
Trump is hawking tokens for a crypto project he still hasn’t explained
After a disclaimer that nothing we’d hear tonight is financial or legal advice, followed by a 40-minute interview with former President Donald Trump — which touched on the apparent attempt on his life at a Florida golf course, the border, the “evil forces” conspiring against him, and his granddaughter’s foreign…
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xAI cluster is now the most powerful AI training system in the world — but questions remain over storage capacity, power usage and why it’s actually called Colossus
We recently got a glimpse of what $1 billion worth of AI GPUs looks like when Elon Musk shared a brief video tour of Cortex, X’s AI training supercomputer currently under construction at Tesla’s Giga Texas plant. More recently, Musk took to his social media platform to announce that Colossus,…
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Can AI make you less gullible or is it a conspiracy?
AI chatbots may struggle with hallucinating made-up information, but new research has shown they might be useful for pushing back against unfounded and hallucinatory ideas in human minds. MIT Sloan and Cornell University scientists have published a paper in Science claiming that conversing with a chatbot powered by a large…
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TikTok faces a skeptical panel of judges in its existential fight against the US government
TikTok — an app used to by 170 million Americans — now has its future resting in the hands of three judges. The company fought for its life during oral arguments on Monday only for the judges to express a great deal of skepticism towards TikTok’s case. Attorneys for TikTok and a…
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Report claims renting slower Nvidia AI GPUs is cheaper in China than in the US — but that’s thanks to some rather surprising underhand strategies
In late 2022, the US implemented restrictions on exporting high-end GPU models such as the Nvidia A100 and H100 to China. These measures were aimed at preventing US technology from advancing Chinese military capabilities and supercomputing infrastructure, and in response, Nvidia developed the A800 and H800 models with reduced capabilities…
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Apple gets ready for AI: all the news on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more
Here’s everything coming in iOS 18. Apple published a giant PDF document that’s just a simple list, with brief descriptions, of all the new features coming to iOS 18 over the next several months. As MacRumors notes, it’s more than 250 items long, so dig in, nerds — I know…
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