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Peter Hoeschele, who runs OpenAI’s Stargate data center team, said at an event last week that the company’s models are essentially in constant training mode. That’s a change from the past, when OpenAI would stop training them when they reached a certain point. “Let’s stop talking about training versus inference,” Hoeschele said after Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk asked him how OpenAI allocates computing resources between training the models and running them (otherwise known as inference) for its 800 million-p
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A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage has taken out multiple internet services including Alexa, Ring, Snapchat and more –here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 doesn’t support Android’s Linux Terminal, making Qualcomm the only vendor to not support it. Read more ›
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Disney+ and Hulu's cancellation rates surged in September as ABC sidelined late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, suggesting that the Disney boycotts worked. Read more ›
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Apple's stock price reached a new all-time high today, with shares in the company trading for as much as $263.47 on the intraday market, according to Yahoo Finance. The company's previous intraday high was $260.10, set on December 26, 2024. The new record comes after some Wall Street analysts and reports said there has been strong demand for Apple's new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max... Read more ›
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Amazon had indicated that black-and-white Kindle models deliver a sharper reading experience, but has since clarified this. Read more ›
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After two failed serious relationships by age 30, I left the US and moved to Rome. Italy didn't fix all my problems and heartbreak, but it helped. Read more ›
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By now, you’ve probably seen some of the videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as other federal law enforcement agencies, attacking immigrants and unarmed Americans protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. In one, officers shoot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball. In another, an officer sprays pepper spray directly […] Read more ›
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In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week, including security concerns from satellites leaking sensitive data and the experiences of undeterred Cybertruck owners. Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a longstanding weakness in the internet's infrastructure. Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 […] Read more ›
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The Trump administration reached an agreement with the American Federation of Teachers to continue processing student-loan forgiveness for borrowers. Read more ›
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On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is the founder and sole employee of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors the practices of "leading AI companies to ensure transparency, privacy, and ethical […] Read more ›
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On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data... Read more ›
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A MNF doubleheader is on tap for tonight. Find out how to watch or stream both games without cable. Read more ›
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A law firm in China has filed a new antitrust complaint accusing Apple of abusing its control over iOS app distribution and payments, escalating a dispute that previously failed in civil court by seeking action from state regulators instead, Reuters reports. The new complaint was submitted to the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) on behalf of 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users. The filing alleges that Apple maintains a... Read more ›
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Apple today shared a new "Great ideas start on Mac" ad, voiced by the late Dr. Jane Goodall, the well-known British ethologist and conservationist. Here is what Goodall says in the ad:Every story you love, every invention that moves you, every idea you wished was yours, all began as nothing. Just a flicker on a screen, asking a simple question: What do you see?Apple's video description on YouTube:From groundbreaking discoveries... Read more ›
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New Hammers boss Nuno Espírito Santo takes charge of his first game at the London Stadium. Read more ›
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Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the 1,000-plus sites and services that were affected when Amazon Web Services went down, causing a major internet blackout. Read more ›
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Microsoft has denied claims that its data center in central Mexico is tied to a recent spate of power outages, water shortages, and health concerns, claiming it always prioritizes the needs of local communities in any actions it takes. Read more ›
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OpenAI has spent roughly $6.4 billion in stock to buy three startups over the last 16 months, while its smaller rival Anthropic has done barely any deals. But Anthropic, recently valued at $170 billion in a funding round, told investment bankers in recent weeks that it is getting ready to move off the sidelines and do more acquisitions, according to people who have spoken to its executives. It is considering... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people’s personal AI subscription.” The company last week made moves toward that goal with “apps in ChatGPT,” which lets people use the chatbot to search for homes on Zillow or make Spotify playlists, for instance.In another example, OpenAI has pitched companies on allowing visitors to sign into their websites using their ChatGPT credentials, just... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But it’s interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase will invest $10 billion in mostly US-based tech companies working in areas aligned with strategic government interests. The investments are part of a broader pledge by the bank to facilitate $1.5 trillion of transactions in areas including domestic manufacturing and artificial ... Read more ›
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At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it “takes time” for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more ›
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Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products including laptops and servers outside China as early as next year, Nikkei Asia reported. The move is part of the U.S. tech giant’s ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on China’s domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more ›
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An entity being used to fund Meta Platforms’ large-scale data center in Louisiana sold more than $27 billion in debt with an interest rate about 2.25 percentage points above the U.S. Treasury yield. Meta is raising the debt, maturing in 2049, for a roughly $30 billion special-purpose vehicle the ... Read more ›
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The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, can’t afford to keep its commitments. The deals pose different risks to each company’s business, but AMD faces the biggest downside... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI is aiming to build and control the world’s most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAI’s precarious finances are forcing the company into unusual financial arrangements that rely on outsiders to raise funding and shoulder much of the risk. XAI wants to have as much control as possible over Colossus 2, its second supersize data... Read more ›
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, marking the first major retailer to strike an e-commerce partnership with the AI firm. Shoppers will be able to buy most Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more ›
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