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AMD will lay off nearly 1,000, or 4% of staff, as AI competition heats up
AMD said today it will lay off 4% of its global staff, or perhaps somewhat less than 1,000 of its estimated 26,000-person workforce.Read More Read more
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The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years
After quietly settling a dispute with her management agency, the massively popular Chinese influencer Li Ziqi has started posting again, gaining her millions of new followers overnight. Read more
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Google’s smart home gets AI camera search – but only for these Nest cameras
The new Gemini-powered search will make it easier to find the clip you need in your history, complete with AI-generated descriptions. Read more
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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks. Read more
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Donald Trump’s New ‘Border Czar’ Defended Child Separation at Festival Held by Gun-Worshipping Sect
Tom Homan, who helped usher in the family separation policy during Trump’s first term, is promising to enact the “biggest deportation operation in the history of the United States.” Read more
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The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun
Generative AI may transform video game design, but the first playable title is just bizarre and fascinating. Read more
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20 Best Early Black Friday Deals of 2024 to Shop Right Now
It doesn’t officially arrive until November 29, but the Black Friday deals have already begun. Read more
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Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Dell and 13 other companies reported how long it takes their computers to train the key neural networks in use today. Among those results were the first glimpse of Nvidia’s next generation GPU, the B200, and Google’s upcoming accelerator, called Trillium. The B200 posted a doubling of performance on some tests versus… Read more
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Researchers from Snowflake and CMU Introduce SuffixDecoding: A Novel Model-Free Approach to Accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) Inference through Speculative Decoding
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly become a foundational component of today’s consumer and enterprise applications. However, the need for a fast generation of tokens has remained a persistent challenge, often becoming a bottleneck in emerging applications. For example, the recent trend of inference-time scaling utilizes much longer outputs to perform search and other complex… Read more
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Best Disc Golf Discs (2024): Disc Sets, Putters, and More
Here are the best disc golf discs that we’ve tested in the field. Read more