AMD acquires Taalas, a startup
AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B. Google is reportedly working on…
Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised
"Framework has been sending out email notifications to customers alerting of a limited data breach in which customer information was accessed through a Metabase BI service zero-day exploit," writes Slashdot reader DuoDreamer. Data includes customer names, email addresses, phone…
Florida Atlantic University launches Executive Certificate in Quantum
The Executive Education program in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has launched a new professional certificate course titled "Quantum Computing: Business and Sourcing Strategy." Designed for non-technical enterprise leaders, technology executives,…