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Push for Mandatory AI Safety Rules Gains Momentum in Washington

Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the ranking member on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, unveiled a framework Wednesday (Oct. 7) for regulating frontier artificial intelligence in a possible preview of a federal regulatory push should Democrats take control of Congress in November. The framework features six principles for regulating frontier AI development and deployment. […]…

Push for Mandatory AI Safety Rules Gains Momentum in Washington

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Gemma 4 E2B on an AMD MI300X: Which Weight Format Should You Serve?

This article provides a step by step guide to serving ten weight formats of Gemma 4 E2B on one AMD Instinct MI300X through vLLM, with every build timed across a grid of request counts and prompt…

  • fp8 format matches bf16 speed on AMD MI300X, achieving 0.75x for single request
  • Int8 W8A8 format significantly slower, from 0.29x to 0.87x
  • fp8 format has largest deviation from Google's trained weights

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