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🧠 Google's new AI creates its own chips
🤣 TSMC execs dismiss OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a ‘podcasting bro’
🙅♂️ Intel turns down Arm’s attempt to acquire product division
❌ X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
🚀 NASA identifies space station cracks as 'highest risk'
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🧠 Google's new AI creates its own chipsLINK
Google Deepmind's AlphaChip AI has created three generations of TPUs, which are now widely used in data centers globally.
Initially unveiled in 2021, AlphaChip was the first AI method to design chip "floorplans," significantly reducing design time from months to hours.
The AI model continues to improve with each TPU generation, achieving better chip layouts and proving more efficient than human designers for various hardware platforms.
🤣 TSMC execs dismiss OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a ‘podcasting bro’LINK
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was reportedly dismissed as a "podcasting bro" by senior TSMC executives during his tour in the Far East last winter.
Altman proposed a massive $7 trillion investment plan for AI advancements, including 36 new semiconductor plants, which TSMC execs found impractical and overly ambitious.
The dismissive attitude towards Altman's proposals reflects broader skepticism, with OpenAI's current business model showing significant financial discrepancy between its income and expenditure.
🙅♂️ Intel turns down Arm’s attempt to acquire product divisionLINK
Arm Holdings Plc approached Intel Corp. about acquiring its product division, but Intel refused to consider selling the unit, according to an informed source.
Intel, dealing with significant financial struggles and restructuring efforts, is focusing on revamping its operations to attract investors and potentially enabling a company split in the future.
Arm, looking to diversify beyond smartphone chip designs, sees a potential acquisition of Intel's product unit as a strategy to expand into personal computers and server markets.
❌ X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossierLINK
X is blocking users from sharing links to a newsletter containing a hacked document allegedly from the Trump campaign's research on vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.
The journalist behind the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from X, and searches for posts containing the link yield no results.
The document is purportedly from an Iranian hack and includes sensitive information; however, other news outlets have declined to publish it.
🚀 NASA identifies space station cracks as 'highest risk'LINK
NASA managers express serious concerns about a leaking Russian module on the aging International Space Station, classifying it as a "highest" risk and consequence issue on their risk matrix.
The leak rate in the small PrK module has increased significantly since 2019, and neither NASA nor Russian officials have determined the root cause, though they suspect weld issues.
NASA and Roscosmos are working together to manage the leak, but no agreement has been reached on when the rate becomes untenable, complicating plans for the station's future past 2030.
Other news you might like
Sam Altman told OpenAI employees he doesn't expect a 'giant equity stake'.LINK
Starlink hits 4 million subscribers.LINK
Amazon dodges antitrust scrutiny in UK over Anthropic investment.LINK
OpenAI reportedly wants to build 5 gigawatt data centers, and nobody knows who could supply that much power.LINK
New leak claims Apple Vision Pro 2 is headed into mass production, contrary to recent reports.LINK
Millions of Kia cars could have been hacked due to dealer software portal flaw.LINK
Latest research and tools
Collaborative Text Editing with e.g.-Walker: better, faster, smaller edits are achieved with this method in collaborative text editing scenarios.LINK
LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs: the paper discusses how to efficiently implement the Llama2 architecture on embedded FPGAs to accelerate performance.LINK
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