Tech Meme

About Amazon: AWS unveils Graviton4, with 50% more cores, 75% more memory bandwidth, and up to 30% more performance than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for up to 4x faster training  —  AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: Survey of Substack and Telegram finds “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack’s ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols  —  The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pika, a startup building AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago  —  The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet.  —  Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Justine Calma / The Verge: Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running in Nevada  —  A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google’s data centers with clean energy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of Curtis Priem, an Nvidia co-founder and its first CTO, who holds almost 200 patents, sold his stock years ago, and donated $275M to his alma mater  —  If Curtis Priem, Nvidia’s first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he’d be the 16th richest person in America. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: AWS launches Guardrails in preview to help companies implement safeguards for LLMs, available for foundational models and agents on Amazon Bedrock  —  We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models and finding ways … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pika, a startup building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago  —  The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet.  —  Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karen Weise / New York Times: Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant starting at $20/user/month that competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft’s Copilot, and others  —  Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, an S3 tier aimed at data-intensive applications with a 10x write speed improvement and 50% lower request cost than standard S3  —  At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

About Amazon: AWS announces Graviton4, with up to 30% better performance, 50% more cores, and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for 4x faster training  —  AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads Lees verder op Tech Meme