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It’S time for Tech news, where we report on the technology that will eventually replace us and report on itself. Microsoft is accelerating development of its own AI chip to avoid Reliance on nvidia’s products. The chips have been in the works since at least 2019 are built on tsmc’s five nanometer process and are known internally as project Athena, because perhaps nothing says, god of wisdom and War like modern AI, select employees at Microsoft and openai already have access to the new Chips for testing with large language models or llms, and we might see a full launch as early as next year, it’s uncertain yet whether they will truly rival nvidia’s own high level, AI chips, but they don’t really have to considering that llms. Take tens of thousands of gpus and Nvidia h100s are selling for over forty thousand dollars on eBay.
Microsoft stands to save bundles by simply using its own in-house chips. It could make even more by offering those ships to its Azure customers, though. It’S not clear whether the company will sell access to them. The total number number of high-level gpus Nvidia can pump out is a major bottleneck to AI development. So just imagine how much faster Microsoft will be able to stitch Bing chat’s brain back together.
The next time Sydney goes off the deep end. The New York police department has announced a series of high-tech additions to their Arsenal, including at least two R2D2 looking security droids. If R2D2 was for sitting on a gun that shoots tracking devices and two police Digi dogs, some of you might recognize these as Boston dynamics’s spot model, which does resemble a dog in the sense that it has four legs and a massive camera sticking out of its Ass right, there officer, that’s where I was cameraed, that’s how you get the dog snooze, you put the camera right in the dog’s ass. The dog robots were actually first contracted by the NYPD two years ago, before the contract was canceled, because critics found it creepy and dystopian.
What? What crazy now they’ve acquired two for seventy five thousand dollars, each using acid forfeiture funds, which is money and property taken for people who may or may not have committed a crime? So don’t worry it’s not tax dollars, the police stole it fair and square. As for the security, droids they’re, essentially just mobile cameras that cruise around at a brisk walking pace like Space Age trash cans. They will initially be chaperoned by a human police officer, presumably to prevent them from getting jumped in an Alleyway and forcibly decommissioned by a bat. With a nail through it or to just pick them up if they fall over, they look very bottom.
Heavy yeah push mirror to cow. Tipping try robot, tipping and Reddit has announced that it will be charging businesses that use its API, meaning that AI developers will no longer be allowed to use Reddit as a free will of training data. Instead, they’ll have to pay for access to the world’s Premier. Slurry of product reviews, memes and unhinged bigotry, the exact price AI devs will have to pay is currently unknown.
But, according to the announcement, the changes are primarily directed at third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits and broader usage rights and will take effect following a 60-day notice period. The motive for the changes was unstated, but Reddit is planning to go public later this year and the possibility of garnering future profits from companies seeking to train their large language models could change. Reddit’S valuation immensely EO, Steve Huffman described the company’s authentic conversations as particularly valuable to llms, saying there’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy or AA or never at all. Yeah, there’s also a lot of stuff on that site that no one should ever say to anyone ever very authentic, though authentically racist, nothing hits like a hard r on Reddit.
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As a 32 year old mother of three I’m doing my best tips Fedora, he wrote out tips Fedora, obviously, and also none of that happened. I made it up. Bungie has decided to expand the anti-cheating policies in Destiny 2., specifically to curb the use of things like programmable controllers and keyboard adapters that allow complex, macros and aim assist. Activision has done basically the same thing, but Bungie has recognized the need to balance restricting cheating and maintaining accessibility through adaptive controllers.
While I don’t use an Adaptive controller since I’m only disabled on the inside. I applaud the effort to find a solution for all Gamers. The US’s National reconnaissance office plans to launch a sensor satellite prototype into space within the next year that will be able to track moving targets back down on Earth. The nro’s director says the sensor will provide day night, all weather detection and tracking of ground and Maritime targets. But what, if I stand still US Government bet you didn’t think of that.
Now did you the Visions based on movement stand completely still, and after 20, 25 years Netflix will be ending its DVD mail service, leading to the obvious question. Wait. Netflix was still sending DVDs in the mail.
Yes, yes, it was apparently Netflix’s. Dvd division remained popular with Die Hard fans even as its streaming service metastasized and took over because it offered a range of obscure titles that simply weren’t available online. If you’re not getting as close to Snuff, as you possibly can. While remaining legal is it even Cinema, it belongs in a museum, But continuing a quality product with a dedicated fan base isn’t exactly Netflix’s Mo, so naturally it had to die, but Tech news Never Dies so come back on Friday.
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