5 hours ago 2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree 'Spruce Wayne' Arrives in D.C. from Alaska

2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree 'Spruce Wayne' Arrives in D.C. from Alaska  youralaskalink

Politics

9 hours ago Live: WA windstorm: Friday updates on power outages, school closures and more

Live: WA windstorm: Friday updates on power outages, school closures and more  The Seattle Times

Events

10 hours ago Tens of thousands without power in western Washington since Tuesday storms

Tens of thousands without power in western Washington since Tuesday storms  The Center Square

Events

11 hours ago Amtrak train impaled by tree near Seattle during bomb cyclone windstorm

Amtrak train impaled by tree near Seattle during bomb cyclone windstorm  Fox Weather

Events

11 hours ago Microsoft collaboration develops DroidSpeak for better communication between LLMs

A team of computer engineers and AI specialists at Microsoft, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of Chicago, has led to the development of a new language that allows LLMs to speak with one another more efficiently. The group has posted a paper outlining the ideas behind the new language, how it works and the sorts of improvements in efficiency it can lead to, on the arXiv preprint server.

Politics

14 hours ago Reinforcement learning algorithm provides an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control traffic in a congested city could help motorists reach their destinations faster, while improving safety or sustainability.

Politics

14 hours ago How Christmas tree for US Capitol made trek from Seattle to Washington D.C.

How Christmas tree for US Capitol made trek from Seattle to Washington D.C.  KING5.com

Politics

15 hours ago Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner

Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models. Anthropic also says it’s working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, to develop future generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS’ custom-built […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Technology

15 hours ago Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner

Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models. Anthropic also says it’s working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, to develop future generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS’ custom-built […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Technology