Tag: cost

  • The Register: Nvidia’s context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/nvidia_rubin_cpx/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable Feedly Summary: Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn’t benefit from the bandwidth? Analysis Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled the Rubin CPX, a GPU designed specifically to accelerate extremely long-context AI workflows like those seen in code assistants such…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing no-cost, multicloud Data Transfer Essentials for EU and U.K. customers

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/new-for-the-uk-and-eu-no-cost-multicloud-data-transfer-essentials/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing no-cost, multicloud Data Transfer Essentials for EU and U.K. customers Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, our services are built with interoperability and openness in mind to enable customer choice and multicloud strategies. We pioneered a multicloud data warehouse, enabling workloads to run across clouds. We were the…

  • The Register: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/npm_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change Feedly Summary: Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz…

  • Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens

    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/09/reading-the-gentle-singularity-through-a-sustainability-lens.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens Feedly Summary: Sam Altman says AI will cost as little as electricity—but what’s the real environmental impact of billions of queries a day? In this post I dig into the numbers from the blog post “The Gentle Singularity" and compare…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic status: Model output quality

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/anthropic-model-output-quality/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic status: Model output quality Feedly Summary: Anthropic status: Model output quality Anthropic previously reported model serving bugs that affected Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 for 56.5 hours. They’ve now fixed additional bugs affecting “a small percentage" of Sonnet 4 requests for almost a month, plus a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/webgpu-local-folder/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Feedly Summary: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Inspired by a comment on Hacker News I decided to see if it was possible to modify the transformers.js-examples/tree/main/llama-3.2-webgpu Llama 3.2 chat demo (online here,…

  • Slashdot: All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/2031235/all-it-work-to-involve-ai-by-2030-says-gartner?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Gartner’s projections regarding the integration of AI into IT departmental functions by 2030, predicting a significant augmentation of human roles rather than outright job losses. It highlights the…

  • Slashdot: Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/1824254/signal-rolls-out-encrypted-cloud-backups-debuts-first-subscription-plan-at-199month?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Signal’s introduction of end-to-end encrypted cloud backups is a significant advancement for user privacy and data security. This feature not only allows individuals to recover lost message histories but…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Luan

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/james-luan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Luan Feedly Summary: I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer…