Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis – Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Early Breakthroughs (#870)

Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis – Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Early Breakthroughs (#870)

Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) Paul A. Volcker is a senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, Power Law, The Man Who Knows, again The World Bank. His latest book says The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, … Read more

Foiled White House Drone Plot Points to “Accelerators,” Extremists Who Want to Push Country to Fall, Expert Says.

Foiled White House Drone Plot Points to “Accelerators,” Extremists Who Want to Push Country to Fall, Expert Says.

The 19-year-old suspected ringleader, Tycen Proper of Knox County, Ohio, was turned in by his mother, who called local police on June 10 after seeing his gun purchases and activities online. Federal agents had already tapped into the group’s encrypted Signal communications. The FBI says five men, with an extensive Internet network of about 23 … Read more

‘Get Jiro’ brings Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel to TV (and we saw the first 2 episodes)

‘Get Jiro’ brings Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel to TV (and we saw the first 2 episodes)

Anthony Bourdain’s 2012 graphic novel, Find Jirogot the Adult Swim treatment, with a new animated series that brings the chef and writer’s mystery character to the screen. And of course, it’s set in a world where cooking rules. It’s been a long road to adaptation, almost ten years of negotiations, approvals, a writer’s strike, and … Read more

OpenAI Just Launched 3 Free AI Courses and Certifications

OpenAI Just Launched 3 Free AI Courses and Certifications

Having the right certification can make all the difference. But since there are so many, finding the right one is not easy. It is there OpenAI Academy enters. OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT models, has launched a learning platform through its OpenAI School that offers AI courses for up-and-coming professionals. These courses cover topics … Read more

‘Widow’s Bay’ Ending Explained: How Will That Big Twist Impact Season 2?

‘Widow’s Bay’ Ending Explained: How Will That Big Twist Impact Season 2?

Widow’s Bay finished its first season on Wednesday Apple TVand in its conclusion, entitled We Hope You Enjoy Your Time, which is layered a horror-comedy reveals a big trick up its sleeve. From the beginning of the show, Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) works tirelessly to transform his coastal town into the next Martha’s Vineyard. … Read more

MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on 109B-Parameter MoE with a 3T-Token Budget

MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on 109B-Parameter MoE with a 3T-Token Budget

MiniMax released MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a sparse attention method built specifically on Grouped Query Attention (GQA). Target one bottleneck: the quadratic cost of softmax attention in the long context. The MiniMax research team tested it within a 109B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on native multimodal data. They also open sourced the inference kernel and shipped … Read more

4 Zodiacs continue to seek more in life

4 Zodiacs continue to seek more in life

ARIES Aries is looking for a deep relationship. They are tired of the high-level, transactional, small-talk focused interactions that make up most of their days. Co-workers, clients, neighbors, baristas, nail technicians. They see each opportunity to meet as an opportunity to get to know someone different. They want people to look them in the eye … Read more