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The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar Analysis  Today, most GenAI models are trained and run on GPUs or some other specialized accelerator, but that doesn't mean they have to be. In fact, several chipmakers have suggested tha…

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Brit Apple semi supplier IQE's CEO departs amid reshuffle

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025 In an unexpected personnel shake-up, IQE chief Americo Lemos has left the listed British semiconductor materials supplier effective immediately af…

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Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets.…

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OpenAI reportedly asks Broadcom for help with custom inferencing silicon

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Fabbed by TSMC, needed for … it's a secret OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Broadcom to build a custom inferencing chip.…

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No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025 The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium – an alliance of enterprise tech vendors that pointedly excludes Nvidia because it wants a shared standard f…

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China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Incoming trio includes first female engineer, a returning taikonaut, and one newbie Three taikonauts have successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and are on their way to the Tiangong space station.…

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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Don't hold your breath Putin A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.…

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AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct AMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators – its answer to Nvidia's venerable H100 – in its thi…

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Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Google Cloud grows fast thanks to AI, which now writes a quarter of all G-code Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that the Department of Justice's proposed remedies for Google's monopolistic behaviour could impact US leadership of the global tech…

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Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model's built-in security …

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Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer. …

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How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model's built-in security …

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Softbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Oh, and it'll need the total current US power output Video  Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire behind Softbank, has predicted that an artificial superintelligence 10,000 times smarter than a human brain will be created within about a decade - b…

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xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips Unlike most AI training clusters, xAI's Colossus with its 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs doesn't use InfiniBand. Instead, the massive system, which Nvidia bills as the "world's larges…

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Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Linux kernel creator says let's see which workloads use GenAI in five years Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, thinks the majority of marketing circulated by the industry on Generative AI is simply fluff with no real substance - and it may…

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US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoD The US Army is testing a new AI product that it says can identify threats from a mile away, and all without the need for any new hardware. …

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Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest International law enforcement officials have arrested two individuals and charged another in connection with the use and distribution of the Redline and Meta infostealer malware strains…

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The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar Analysis  Today, most GenAI models are trained and run on GPUs or some other specialized accelerator, but that doesn't mean they have to be. In fact, several chipmakers have suggested tha…

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Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem If you're running an application built using the Spring development framework, now is a good time to check it's fully updated – a new, critical-severity vulnerability has just been disclose…

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Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLA The US treasury department finalized a rule on Monday that limits domestic entities' investment in Chinese semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and AI.…

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Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions' One of the UK's major commercial property developers says it would be pumping investment into new datacenters if it could just secure the energy supply nee…

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