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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
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"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
Have they really broken up, though? Or is it more like open marriage is what's needed to keep those cloud relationships alive, now? 😁
Does it say anything about where those systems will be physically hosted? Given that OCI is again in the loop, I guess that it could mean Oracle is "buying" the hardware and hosting those 100k GPUs in OCI, with DoE paying a monthly rent for dedicated access.
And this "The system is co-developed by AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oak Ridge National Laboratory." prompts the question of OCI's role, here, too... 🤔
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"Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."

This goes in a direction you did not expect.
A cartoonist's review of AI art
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
Yes, I suspect the "hotel bar" plays a more important role in the decision to attend conferences than one may be ready to admit.
Or (unpopular opinion), maybe it's time to question the relevance of giant in-person conferences in 2025, drawing 15k+ people to one city (with all that environmental impact), only to check email while jet-lagged speakers present slides already online, or attend meetings that could have been emails?
Well, no-context benchmarks are like unit-less graphs with truncated axes: it's marketing 101. What do you expect? :/
> multiple hyperscalers do this to optimize every level of their data center infrastructure.

And many failed, and are now coming back to off-the-shelf solutions.
For all the AI-bubble-is-about-to-burst talk out there, if you've attended the #HotChips conference this year (that's been around for much longer than said bubble), it's really hard to miss the fact that a whole industry is aligning, and putting all its (vast) resources towards a single goal: AI.
When you consider the number of *nodes* in those "AI servers" (which are actually rack-scale networked systems), going from NVL144 to NVL572 (a x4 increase in just system size, before any generational perf. increase) is just a 2.7x price bump. $/GPU goes from $22k to $15k.
Pretty good deal! :D
But then, how the vague and full of prestidigitation marketing tactics will work? 🤔
... several million dollars per _rack_.
A NVL72 rack is still 18 independent servers (OS and kernel-wise).
Funny how, despite all their learning capabilities, LLMs are completely incapable of learning that making things up is not an optimal pathway.

Oh wait, maybe that's simply because they have no way to evaluate if they're making things up or not.
Building your own silicon from scratch to compete with companies with a 30yr head start? Who could have predicted?
That marketing rule is another thing that AI adopted from HPC :)