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Tech industry fears delays to its multi-trillion dollar infrastructure buildout meant to power artificial intelligence Several newly elected Democrats and Senator Bernie Sanders have renewed calls for datacenter moratoriums in the days after the US midterm elections. The sweeping Democratic victory , which was buoyed…
Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment. Data centers were a…
Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom Activists have stormed the site of a Microsoft datacentre being built in Amsterdam, as the backlash to the social and environmental harms of the AI boom spreads across Europe. Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch…
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot…
Zyphra released ZYFA, open-source FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X. On real model activations, its FP8 kernels run 1.16-1.76x faster than AMD’s AITER, with 62-78% lower error at head dimension 128. The post Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster appeared first…
On Tuesday, millions of American voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for Democrats and against AI. The fight against Big Tech is about to come roaring back, and the fight over data centers is looking even harder for the folks trying to build them. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David […]
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam. Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active parameters. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and runs on Tinker, with Apache 2.0 weights planned. The post Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active appeared first on MarkTechPost…
Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B sparse MoE base model with 14B active parameters, trained on 33.5T tokens and published before any mid- or post-training. The post Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: A 280B MoE Base Model With 14B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost .
