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The biggest bottleneck in large language models

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 2 have captured the public’s imagination with their ability to generate human-like text. Enterprises are just as enthusiastic, with many exploring how to leverage LLMs to improve products and services. However, a major bottleneck is severely constraining the adoption of the most advanced LLMs in

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A UN report says Tether’s token is one of the leading payment methods for money laundering and frauds, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast Asia (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: A UN report says Tether’s token is one of the leading payment methods for money laundering and frauds, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast Asia  —  Digital currency at the heart of scams including fake romance frauds known as ‘pig butchering’, report says

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South Korea says Samsung and SK Hynix plan to invest more than $470B by 2047 to build 13 new chip plants and three research facilities in the country (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: South Korea says Samsung and SK Hynix plan to invest more than $470B by 2047 to build 13 new chip plants and three research facilities in the country  —  – It envisions the world’s biggest chipmaking center near Seoul  — Samsung and Hynix are leading a two-decade investment

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Remembering ISDN

We are definitely spoiled these days in terms of Internet access. In much of the world gigabit speeds are common and even cheap plans are likely to be measured in 100s of megabits. But there was a time not long ago when a fast modem received at 56 kilobits per second. If you couldn’t justify

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How some artists are incorporating Dall-E, Midjourney, and other AI tools into their work, while others remain anxious about AI’s impact on their livelihoods (Emma Park/Financial Times)

Emma Park / Financial Times: How some artists are incorporating Dall-E, Midjourney, and other AI tools into their work, while others remain anxious about AI’s impact on their livelihoods  —  Forward-thinking designers are willing to embrace the technology — without relinquishing human creativity’s central role

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Nielsen: Peacock’s exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the “most-streamed event in US history”, with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak average (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Nielsen: Peacock’s exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the “most-streamed event in US history”, with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak average  —  The streams we were watching mostly held up, if you saw the game, how was the experience for you?

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Simulating a Time-Keeping Radio Signal

As far as timekeeping goes, there’s nothing more accurate and precise than an atomic clock. Unfortunately, we can’t all have blocks of cesium in our basements, so various agencies around the world have maintained radio stations which, combined with an on-site atomic clock, send out timekeeping signals over the air. In the United States, this

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Bringing The Voice Assistant Home

For many, the voice assistants are helpful listeners. Just shout to the void, and a timer will be set, or Led Zepplin will start playing. For some, the lack of flexibility and reliance on cloud services is a severe drawback. [John Karabudak] is one of those people, and he runs his own voice assistant with

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