Powering the AI inference boom: Is it time to downsize the data centre?

Powering the AI inference boom: Is it time to downsize the data centre?

In the world of artificial intelligence, the focus used to be on training AI models. Now, increasingly, it’s on “inference” – the actual execution of the tasks we ask these systems to perform.Β David GurlΓ© is a French tech entrepreneur whose startup Antimatter aims to service the inference boom with energy solutions, mini data centres that fit…

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SpaceX unveils plans to go public, with .75 trillion valuation

SpaceX unveils plans to go public, with $1.75 trillion valuation

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company has publicly filed details about its upcomingΒ initialΒ public offering, highlighting both the company’s ambitious goals in space and its financial results. Among the group’s long-term goals are the construction of data centres inΒ space andΒ creating a large human settlement on Mars. Also in this edition: Samsung and its workers find a…

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Stephen Colbert’s exit and the future of late-night TV

Stephen Colbert’s exit and the future of late-night TV

At Jimmy Kimmel’s annual monologue to advertisers at Disney’s recent upfront presentation, the ABC late-night host offered sympathy to his ousted CBS cohort Stephen Colbert. β€œFirst, it’s bad enough to lose your job,” Kimmel said. β€œImagine getting replaced by the owner of the Weather Channel.” Byron Allen, the media mogul whose holdings do include the…

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