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š„ AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
AMD launches its first small language model, AMD-135M, featuring speculative decoding for enhanced performance and open-source access.
š„ Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
Cloudflare's new container platform, now in production, enhances GPU usage and simplifies global scheduling for developers.
š„ LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs
LlamaF accelerates Llama2 inference on embedded FPGAs, achieving up to 15.8x speedup and 6.1x power efficiency improvements.
Gaussian Frosting: Editable complex radiance fields with real-time rendering
Gaussian Frosting introduces a mesh-based method for real-time rendering of complex 3D effects, enhancing volumetric detail and editing.
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: 'I see AI as born out of surveillance'
Meredith Whittaker views AI as a product of surveillance capitalism, advocating for privacy and challenging Big Tech's dominance.
HP injects AI into its printers
HP introduces Print AI for printers, optimizing printouts and enhancing user experience, but concerns about cost and privacy arise.
OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications
OpenAI updates its policy to permit military applications, clarifying its stance on national security use cases.
Wikipedia: "Add a Fact" LLM Future Audiences Experiment
Wikimedia's "Add A Fact" tool lets users suggest edits to Wikipedia using AI, aiming to enhance contributions from outside the platform.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money
OpenAI's rapid growth sees $300M monthly revenue but expects $5B loss this year, prompting urgent funding efforts amid executive exits.
What if you could look inside your AI? Understanding and steering Llama 3
Goodfire launches a desktop interface to interpret and steer Llama 3's behavior using sparse autoencoders for enhanced AI understanding.
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensored
Llama 3.2 3B Uncensored Chat offers a new interactive experience on Hugging Face by chuanli11.
Rosie pattern language: modern text pattern matching to replace regex
Rosie Pattern Language offers a modern alternative to regex, enhancing syntax, testing, and pattern sharing for text matching.
Musk says he'll ban all Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at the OS level
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at Tesla if OpenAI integrates with Apple's OS, citing security risks.
Lessons from Using Google Gemini for Video Analysis
Using Google Gemini for video analysis reveals that slowing videos, keeping them short, and precise timestamps enhance accuracy.
LLMs: Great for Business but Bad Business
LLMs excel at data structuring but struggle with profitability; true value lies in products built on their technology.
OpenAI reportedly wants to build 5 gigawatt data centers
OpenAI plans to build massive 5-gigawatt data centers, raising concerns about energy supply and feasibility amid growing demand.
5 Days with Elon Musk on X: Deepfakes, Falsehoods and Lots of Memes
Elon Musk's recent posts on X included numerous falsehoods and memes, amplifying misinformation during a politically charged week.
Microsoft re-launches 'privacy nightmare' AI screenshot tool
Microsoft re-launches its controversial AI screenshot tool, Recall, with privacy changes after user backlash; opt-in feature added.
Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognitio
A study reveals how smart TVs use Automatic Content Recognition to track viewing habits, impacting privacy across regions.
Show HN: Ultra-realistic AI images at $9 for 500 images
InstaPhotoAI offers ultra-realistic AI-generated images for $9/month, allowing users to create and customize photos effortlessly.
IBM's NorthPole AI Chip
IBM's NorthPole AI chip achieves unprecedented speed and energy efficiency, outperforming traditional GPUs in AI inference tasks.
Derek Lowe on AI and Biology
Derek Lowe critiques the optimism around AI in biology, citing issues with data quality, quantity, type, and completeness hindering breakthroughs.
AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
AI bots now achieve 100% success in solving traffic-image CAPTCHAs, marking a significant challenge for human verification methods.
OpenAI was a research lab ā now it's just another tech company
OpenAI transitions from a nonprofit research lab to a profit-driven tech company, facing leadership upheaval and mission conflicts.