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Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $400 million to blow one of modern datacenters’ bottlenecks wide open. The company’s optical interconnect layer allows hundreds of GPUs to work synchronously, streamlining the costly and complex job of training and running AI models. The growth of AI and its correspondingly immense compute requirements have supercharged the datacenter […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 hours ago Former Vegas Democrat politician convicted of killing reporter faces at least 20 years at sentencing hearing

Robert Telles, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician convicted of killing a journalist, could face up to 28 years in prison before he becomes eligible for parole.

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The North Carolina judge who presided over the 1996 murder trial of Michael Jordan’s father petitioned Tuesday to release his convicted killer.

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