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View More NewsIn brief PrismML’s Bonsai 27B is a 27-billion-parameter AI model compressed to 3.9 GB—small enough to run on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 tokens per second, the first time a model at that capability tier has cleared a smartphone’s memory budget. The ternary variant retains 94.6% of full-precision benchmark performance, outperforming conventional “2-bit” Qwen builds that are nearly twice as large and collapse on math and coding tasks below 4 bits. Apple is in early talks with PrismML about the underlying compression technology, per CNBC, with the company targeting a compressed Gemma model next in the pipeline. I…
In this segment of Free Media, Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss the passing of Lindsey Graham and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R–Ky.) health status. The post Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate appeared first on Reason.com. Read the full article here
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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In brief BChat is an open-source privacy-preserving decentralized messaging app. The app minimizes metadata collection and does not require a phone number to register.…
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Bitcoin (BTC) heads into June with new local lows as the US-Iran war drives crypto market nerves.Iran ceasefire hopes hang in the balance as…
Police in Ohio arrested Waterford High School teacher Matthew Warden on two charges of assault for allegedly punching one student in the jaw and…
A security researcher who goes by 0xflorent worked with the team behind a 2016 Ethereum (ETH) ICO contract to unlock about $2 million in…
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Putting real-world investments onchain, a process called tokenization, is moving out of the testing phase and into everyday business.Citi’s new report Tokenization 2030: Wall…