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…
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,…
Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs
Suno says it will begin watermarking and fingerprinting AI-generated songs, tighten download policies to curb mass distribution, and explicitly prohibit deceptive audio and unauthorized voice or likeness cloning. The changes come as the company faces mounting copyright lawsuits,…