Nvidia’s Huang says faster chips are the best way to reduce AI costs

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

“Speed is the best cost-reduction system,” Huang said Tuesday, after his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GTC conference.

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Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on Frontier AI Models, […]
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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others, allowing posts published on one app to be seen and engaged with by those on other […]
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xAI launches an API for generating images

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited to 5 requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per image. For comparison, AI […]
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year’s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also noted that the company registered $547 million in profits last year. He had announced the company’s profitability in December but hadn’t provided any […]
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OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.

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Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel to bolster the AI training data used by the chip maker’s customers and developers.

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Microsoft announces new HR executive, company veteran Amy Coleman

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft’s incoming chief people officer, Amy Coleman, led the development of Microsoft’s human resources response to Covid and its hybrid work approach.

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Stealthy Apache Tomcat Critical Exploit Bypasses Security Filters: Are You at Risk?

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

By simply sending HTTP requests, attackers can trigger the deserialisation of malicious data in Tomcat’s session storage and gain control.

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Streamer Plex raises subscription price for the first time in a decade

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Techme101

Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per […]
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