Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

Researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore, Columbia and TogetherAI have developed a training technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary models or infrastructure ...

China’s latest AI is so good it’s spooked Hollywood. Will its tech sector pump the brakes?

Over the past week, a slew of cinematic videos of celebrities and characters in absurd situations have gone viral online, with one commonality –– they were created using a new artificial intelligence ...
The Sun

I tried the 6-1 food shopping method – it slashed my grocery bill in half, I’ll keep using it to save £1,152 a year

AFTER the fifth time in a row I caught myself wincing at the supermarket till paying for yet ANOTHER astronomical food shop, I knew enough was enough. I’m fed up of seeing the cost of my weekly shop ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
Mashable

The Brick taught me how to be bored again

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. I'm not particularly proud ...
Hackaday

How The Intel 8087 FPU Knows Which Instructions To Execute

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...