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Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US workers for seasonal, part-time, and full-time roles for the upcoming holiday season, up 20% from 2025, paying $20/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Amazon.com Inc. plans to hire more than 300,000 workers during the holiday shopping season, up 20% from a year ago …

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Muse Spark Open: Hardware, License and Cost to Self-Host

Almost nobody should self-host Muse Spark Open: the model card asks for at least 700 GB of VRAM even in NVFP4, so for anything under billions of tokens a month the hosted endpoint at $1.25 per million…

  • Muse Spark Open model has 816 billion total parameters, but only 42 billion are active per token.
  • Self-hosting requires at least 700 GB of VRAM for NVFP4 and 2 TB for BF16.
  • Meta offers hosted endpoints at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.

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