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    OPENAI'S NEW DEVICE WILL BE HOCKEY PUCK-SIZED AND COST OVER $3=
    00 (7
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    OpenAI's upcoming hardware device will be e=
    ssentially a displayless
    smart speaker with moving parts to help give it =
    a personality. The
    product is slated for release in 2027 for a cost of mo=
    re than $300.
    OpenAI is positioning the device as an AI-first computer th=
    at can help
    users get things done. Its design will apparently set it apar=
    t from
    other current smart speakers.=20

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    researchers followed=
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    inserted into bacteria=
    . The viruses were able to infect other
    bacteria, demonstrating that they=
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    NUCLEAR STARTUP OKLO SPLITS ITS FIRST ATOMS IN TEST RE=
    ACTOR (3 MINUTE
    READ) [8]=20

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    own fuel, and
    producing medical isotopes. Oklo is preparing a site near t=
    he Idaho
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    yet have permission to work on the reactor itself.=20

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    AMD ACQUIRES AI CHIP STARTUP TAALAS =
    TO BOOST INFERENCE PERFORMANCE BY
    ETCHING MODELS INTO SILICON (6 MINUTE R=
    EAD) [12]=20

    AMD has acquired AI chip company Taalas for an undisclosed=
    sum. The
    deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to reg=
    ulatory
    approval. Taalas bakes model weights directly into silicon to boo=
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    inference performance by an order of magnitude or more. The company's=

    first chip, the HC1, can serve Meta's Llama3.1 8B at a blistering
    16,8=
    60 tokens a second, 48x faster than Nvidia's GPUs when it was
    announced l=
    ast February.=20

    GITHUB ACTIONS IS HAVING ONE OF THE WORST DAYS IN ITS =
    HISTORY (5
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    GitHub Actions went into a major outa=
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