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AT AMAZON'S BIGGEST DATA CENTER, EVERYTHING IS SUPERSIZED FOR AI

Amazon's Project Rainier involves building data centers so large they would have been considered absurd just a few years ago. The tech industry requires massive networks of specialized computer chips for its increasingly powerful AI technologies. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana. The entire complex, which will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity, will form one giant machine intended just for artificial intelligence. Project Rainier will also include facilities in Mississippi and possibly other locations like North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

OPENAI DESIGNS RIVAL TO OFFICE AND WORKSPACE, THE INFORMATION REPORTS

OpenAI is developing productivity features for ChatGPT. It is working on collaborative document editing and integrated chat capabilities. The planned features will resemble functions offered by Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace. No official product announcements or timelines have been made public.

GOOGLE'S NEW ROBOTICS AI CAN RUN WITHOUT THE CLOUD AND STILL TIE YOUR SHOES

Google DeepMind has revealed a new on-device vision language action (VLA) model that can control robots. It doesn't have a cloud component, so robots using the model can operate with full autonomy. This is the first version of Google's robotics model that developers can tune for their specific uses. Robotics researchers can adapt the VLA to new tasks with as little as 50 to 100 demonstrations.

WORLD'S LARGEST CAMERA SHOWS GALAXY IN 3,200 MEGAPIXEL GLORY AS RUBIN TELESCOPE GOES ONLINE

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is finally online and photographing the galaxy. It found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation. The telescope will allow scientists to explore the cosmos in new ways at a scale that will enable discoveries that should fundamentally change our understanding of the universe. The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, an 8,799-foot-high mountain in the Chilean Andes.

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THE ROAD TO TOP 1: HOW XBOW DID IT

An autonomous penetration tester has reached the top spot on HackerOne for the first time in bug bounty history. XBOW is a fully autonomous AI-driven penetration tester that operates much like a human pentester but can scale rapidly, completing comprehensive penetration tests in just a few hours. It has reported thousands of vulnerabilities validated and confirmed by program owners. XBOW can identify a full spectrum of vulnerabilities, including Remote Code Execution, SQL Injection, XML External Entities, Path Traversal, Server-Side Request Forgery, and Cross-Site Scripting.

FALSEHOODS PROGRAMMERS BELIEVE ABOUT TIME

Developers who think they understand everything about time are probably doing something wrong. This post presents a list of falsehoods that programmers tend to believe about working with time. Don't try to re-invent a date-time library.

CHATGPT WOWS OFFICE WORKERS. THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR MICROSOFT

Drug maker Amgen Inc. last spring announced plans to buy Microsoft's Copilot assistant for 20,000 employees, but 13 months later, Amgen employees are using OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company expanded its ChatGPT use earlier this year after hearing from employees that it helped with tasks such as research and summarizing scientific documents. Its push into the enterprise market is complicating its already fraught relationship with Microsoft. OpenAI claims it has 3 million paying business users.

ANTHROPIC WINS A MAJOR FAIR USE VICTORY FOR AI — BUT IT'S STILL IN TROUBLE FOR STEALING BOOKS

Anthropic used both downloaded ebooks and purchased and scanned print books to create the data it used to train its models. A judge found that the scanned books fell under fair use as they were transformative versions of the works and were not shared outside of the company. The downloaded ebooks did not count as fair use - these will be the subject of a forthcoming jury trial. The judge found that training a large language model on unlicensed data counted as 'fair use'.

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IPHONE USERS UPSET ABOUT APPLE PROMOTING F1 MOVIE WITH WALLET APP NOTIFICATION

Apple recently sent out an ad to some iPhone users as a Wallet app push notification, seemingly ignoring its own App Store guidelines.

SUBSECOND: HOT-PATCHING FOR RUST

Subsecond is a library that enables hot-patching for Rust applications, which allows developers to change the code of a running application without restarting it.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT GPUS

This article discusses how GPUs work, covering topics like compute and memory hierarchy, performance regimes, strategies for increasing performance, and more.

MICROSOFT PLANNING ‘MAJOR' XBOX LAYOFFS NEXT WEEK

Microsoft plans to restructure parts of its Xbox business as it looks to its next generation of consoles.

THE RÉSUMÉ IS DYING, AND AI IS HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN

The traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise.

SOME IDEAS FOR WHAT COMES NEXT

Scaling as a product differentiator died in 2024, so model developers need to innovate in other ways to progress.