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View More NewsIn brief OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, the AI giant’s first custom inference chip. OpenAI says the accelerator was built specifically for large language models. The reveal follows months of reports that OpenAI was developing custom silicon to reduce reliance on Nvidia. OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom artificial intelligence chip, giving a spicy name to a project that could reshape how the company powers ChatGPT and future AI products.Developed with Broadcom, the chip is designed specifically for large language model inference—the process that generates responses to user prompts—and marks OpenAI’s most significant move yet toward controlling more…
Paul Powlesland led volunteers in cleaning up a polluted stream in East London, England. They worked for 10 days, removed over 200 bags of trash, and cleared out thick mud and invasive plants, restoring 250 meters (820 feet) of the waterway. Fish, dragonflies, herons, and other wildlife have now returned to the once-dead waterway for the first time in decades. But the Environment Agency is now investigating them for doing the cleanup without official permits. They could face up to two years in jail for moving silt and waste. The post Brickbat: No Good Deed appeared first on Reason.com. Read…
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Our rockets can find Halley’s Comet and reach Venus.But our fridges don’t work. ~Mikhail Gorbachev In the hills of northeast China, the “State Guest Mansions” sit empty and silent, like the well-preserved ruins of some lost civilisation. There are 260 of these mansions, huge but tediously uniform, each of them close to completion. The project was abandoned a couple of years after launch in 2010. Now local farmers plough the surrounding land. Cattle roam the villas, along with the occasional feral dog. Inside, urban explorers climb through the open jambs and fly their drones down marble hallways, creating creepy home…
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