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Switzerland unveils new supercomputer 'Alps', already ranked sixth in the world

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Staff at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano (CSCS) say 'Alps' could rank even higher today as it wasn’t completed when the rankings were put together in June. http://dlvr.it/TDFv4J

NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence

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It's incredible that it still has fuel left. Big Money Thrustas NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat: switching the agency's ancient … http://dlvr.it/TDFhpg

The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying

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The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable. One of the things enterprise … http://dlvr.it/TDCZz7

Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images

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At the National Tactical Officers Association annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Bounce Imaging has unveiled what it claims is the world’s … http://dlvr.it/TDC1ZS

Tesla's Full Self-Driving v12.5 rollout on HW3 failed, what happens next?

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Tesla’s rollout of Full Self-Driving v12.5 has failed so far, and owners want to know what happens next? In 2016, Elon Musk announced that all future Tesla vehicles would come equipped with the necessary hardware for self-driving capabilities, even specifying “level 5 self-driving,” which implies … http://dlvr.it/TD9yZf

AI startup Poolside nears $3 billion valuation before ever releasing product

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Poolside, a startup creating artificial intelligence to write software, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that would give it a $3 billion … http://dlvr.it/TD9jxR

Oracle Unveils World’s First Zettascale AI Supercomputer with 131K NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Delivering 2.4 ZettaFLOPS for Training Advanced AI Workloads

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Oracle today announced the launch of world’s first zettascale cloud computing clusters. This cluster is powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. It offers … http://dlvr.it/TD7hy8

Has AI hacked the operating system of human civilisation? Yuval Noah Harari sounds a warning

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Just as artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained on vast data sets to learn and predict, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: … http://dlvr.it/TD7RP7

Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques

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Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing … http://dlvr.it/TD5t1X

Agentic AI: A deep dive into the future of automation

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Beyond generative AI The most transformative promise of AI has always been its potential for autonomy, to create systems that can act intelligently on their own without human … http://dlvr.it/TD5Wk4

57% of the internet may already be AI sludge

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It’s not just you — search results really are getting worse. Amazon Web Services (AWS) researchers have conducted a study that suggests 57% of … http://dlvr.it/TD3BcR
Mon, 9 Sep 2024 12:40:00 … http://dlvr.it/TD2H1S

Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger on what AI chatbots of the future will look like

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Anthropic’s new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what’s next for generative AI. Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in the industry. Anthropic was started in 2021 by former OpenAI … http://dlvr.it/TD1fGp

Why Satya Nadella is one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative people of the last 10 years

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Satya Nadella led the tech giant into pole position in the AI race. The secret to his success: starting early. This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Ask Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about his approach to innovation, and he … http://dlvr.it/TD1GhX

How Generative AI is Transforming Intelligent Collections and Revolutionising Receivables

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The order-to-cash (O2C) process, encompassing everything from order processing to receivables collection, is critical for an organisation’s financial … http://dlvr.it/TD0vNp

“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs

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Generative AI has been around for decades, but the systems exploded into the public consciousness in 2022, when OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI … http://dlvr.it/TD0N2V

The mystery of the cover letter

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Dear SIR/MADAM—You asked for a short cover letter to accompany my application to work in your sales department. I could spend time telling you that … http://dlvr.it/TCycsr

I want to be completely done with monitors — for good

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I’m an early adopter of VR and love to explore the latest technology. And yet, to my dismay, I still use a conventional PC monitor daily to get work … http://dlvr.it/TCyT7P

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

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The feds seem to have him dead to rights. Faker's Ball An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of … http://dlvr.it/TCxWm4

Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s … http://dlvr.it/TCvmC8

Satya Nadella

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Back in 1993, the man who would eventually become Microsoft’s CEO was working as a marketing manager at the company. A video from that year shows Satya Nadella, wearing a pair of ’70s-style spectacles and full head of hair, explaining the merits of a powerful nascent technology: Microsoft … http://dlvr.it/TCvN3h

Ray Kurzweil

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Ray Kurzweil's eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power you could buy for a dollar over time, has grown exponentially for the past 85 years. Kurzweil initially used it to prioritize his inventions as a young … http://dlvr.it/TCv2FQ

The underground world of black-market AI chatbots is thriving

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So-called malicious LLMs can earn their makers tens of thousands of dollars per month. ChatGPT’s 200 million weekly active users have helped propel OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot, to a $100 billion valuation. But outside the mainstream there’s still plenty of money to be made—especially if … http://dlvr.it/TCtL4H

Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

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"Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world." Look on my Works, ye Mighty Behold Colossus: Elon Musk's new supercomputer, allegedly … http://dlvr.it/TCtKtH

AI Slop is Everywhere We Look — Here's How Businesses Can Avoid the AI Slop Cycle

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AI slop is the latest iteration of digital clutter. It's the filler content produced by AI tools that prioritize speed and quantity over substance and quality. Here's how to avoid it as a business owner. As entrepreneurs, our brands are our lifeblood. We pour everything into building something … http://dlvr.it/TCnNFH

Tesla has a not-so-secret plan to replace a fundamental-but-flawed building block of the Internet — Musk's Exascale DOJO supercomputer will use TTPoE instead of the universal TCP and wants the world to embrace it

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Tesla is looking to replace the widely-used Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with its own offering. The company says Tesla Transport Protocol over … http://dlvr.it/TCkSj2

How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online

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A system proposed by researchers from MIT, OpenAI, Microsoft and others could curb the use of deceptive AI by exploiting the technology’s … http://dlvr.it/TCjtR8

Drug makers including Pfizer are starting to sell drugs directly to consumers

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In a move that might allow them to sell drugs directly to patients, some drugmakers are getting into the telehealth business. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Some major pharmaceutical companies are getting into the telehealth business. That could allow patients to skip a visit with their regular doctor and let … http://dlvr.it/TChDmD

Introducing AI’s long-lost twin: Engineered intelligence

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More We are on the brink of a fourth AI winter, as faith has begun to waver that AI will produce enough tangible value to justify its cost. As articles from Goldman Sachs and … http://dlvr.it/TChDPn

Linus Torvalds shares thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI) in programming

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Linus Torvalds, the visionary behind the Linux kernel and Git, offers valuable insights into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence … http://dlvr.it/TCflJc