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Mark Cuban’s War on Drug Prices: ‘How Much Fucking Money Do I Need?’
“I’m not trying to land on Mars,” Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban joked at WIRED’s The Big Interview event. Read more
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Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success. Read more
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Hugging Face Releases a Free and Open Course on Fine Tuning Local LLMs
Hugging Face is launching a free and open course on machine learning to make artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible to everyone. The Smöl Course (“Small” Course) guides learners through building, training, and fine-tuning machine learning models. It is based on the SmolLM2 series of models and incorporates insights from the course materials available on GitHub,… Read more
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Zack Snyder Thinks Hollywood Needs to Get on Board With AI or Get Left Behind
Zack Snyder says he still questions “the why” of the technology when it comes to some aspects of filmmaking, but can definitely see the perks. Read more
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Google Cloud launches Veo AI video generator model on Vertex
Unveiled at Google’s I/O developer conference, Veo is Google DeepMind’s response to competitors like Runway’s Gen-3 and OpenAI’s Sora.Read More Read more
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Amazon Introduces Amazon Nova: A New Generation of SOTA Foundation Models that Deliver Frontier Intelligence and Industry Leading Price-Performance
The advancement of AI and machine learning has introduced new capabilities for businesses across industries. From text generation to video synthesis, modern AI models are transforming how organizations operate and innovate. However, large-scale foundation models like GPT-4 and Llama present challenges in achieving advanced intelligence at an accessible cost. Many companies face high computational expenses… Read more
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Breaking Gold Medalist Phil Wizard Says Raygun Doesn’t Deserve the Meme Machine’s Wrath
The b-boy weighed in on the past, present, and future of his sport during WIRED’s The Big Interview event. Read more
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AWS Takes On Google Spanner with Atomic Clock-Powered Distributed DBs
AWS today announced two new database services aimed at providing low-latency data processing that can support transactions anywhere on the globe. The new services, including the Postgres-flavored Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB global tables, put AWS in head-to-head competition with Google Cloud’s Spanner, which also uses atomic clocks to ensure that far-flung transactions don’t get out… Read more
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Dylan Field ‘Got a Real Kick’ Out of This Week’s Enron Relaunch
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the Figma cofounder said he’s “fascinated” by whether it’s possible to build a new company on the back of the tainted brand. Read more
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With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech. Read more