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Sources: ByteDance seeks to expand its data center project in Ceara, Brazil, with a second phase larger than its ongoing $10B, 300MW project (Peter Millard/Bloomberg)

TikTok owner ByteDance is considering expanding a data center project in northeastern Brazil, a move that would strengthen its standing …

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Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”

Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.

  • Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, faces affair scandal with suspected Chinese spy
  • Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates 50-50 chance of Huang's survival
  • Idiosyncrasy credits suggest executive scandals often lead to career loss

Microsoft AZ-900: The Azure Fundamentals Exam That Rewards People Who Understand the Cloud, Not People Who Memorized It

Microsoft AZ-900: The Azure Fundamentals Exam That Rewards People Who Understand the Cloud, Not People Who Memorized It AZ-900 is the most underestimated exam in the Microsoft catalog.

  • Microsoft AZ-900 exam evaluates cloud understanding, not memorization
  • Exam covers three domains: cloud concepts, Azure architecture/services, and governance
  • Success requires grasping service trade-offs and risks/costs, not just names

Information‑gain design trims training compute

Amortizing sequential Bayesian experimental design turns the expensive, inference‑time search for information gain into a cheap forward pass, letting LLMs ask smarter questions with far less compute.

  • Amortizing sequential Bayesian design reduces compute for LLMs.
  • Deep Adaptive Design learns policy for next query selection.
  • AR-ED policies improve information gain with less computational cost.

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