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Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998!

The Engineering Economics of Small-Scale LLM Pre-training The prevailing narrative in large language model development has been dominated by the scaling laws observed in massive clusters, where…

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When AI Disruption Never Ends

Phil Bliss/theispot.com A vice president of product opens her laptop on a Monday morning to find that the AI model her team had worked with for the past six weeks to build a customer workflow has been…

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Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

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At last, Apple joins the war against fake AI images

Reality is crumbling at the hands of generative AI users , to the point where most people don’t trust what they see online anymore. Apple has come up with a technology to fix that: Apple Reference Image. It comes with the new iPhone 18 Pro models, and when enabled, it lets the camera’s new sensor cryptographically sign “every pixel it…

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We're living in an AI twilight zone

Two seemingly contradictory realities are true at once: Most people find AI only modestly useful, a more clever Google search. Many people building AI or using it obsessively worry it could severely damage or destroy humanity. Why it matters: We're living in an AI twilight zone.

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Siri AI Is Finally Here With iOS 27: 13 Features You Need to Know

Apple has confirmed that iOS 27 will roll out on September 14, bringing with it the most significant overhaul of Siri the company has ever shipped. The update is compatible with iPhones going back to the iPhone 11 and the second-generation iPhone SE, though the most advanced Siri AI features are limited to the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro…

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