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  • The Register: Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/nvidia_punts_silicon_photonic_switches/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data Feedly Summary: Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that’s the hope, anyway GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with…

  • Cloud Blog: Five tips and tricks to improve your AI workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/reduce-cost-and-improve-your-ai-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Five tips and tricks to improve your AI workloads Feedly Summary: Recently, we announced Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free version of our AI coding assistant. Technology that was previously available only to the biggest enterprises is now within reach for startups and individual developers. The same…

  • Hacker News: The Failure Rate of EBS

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    Source URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/the-real-fail-rate-of-ebs Source: Hacker News Title: The Failure Rate of EBS Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the challenges and failure rates associated with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, specifically noting that while complete failures are rare, performance degradation occurs frequently. This has significant implications for cloud…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/16/technology/ai-data-centers.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers Feedly Summary: Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the…

  • Hacker News: Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%

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    Source URL: https://www.hopsworks.ai/post/migrating-from-aws-to-a-european-cloud-how-we-cut-costs-by-62 Source: Hacker News Title: Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62% Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed overview of Hopsworks, an open platform for developing and operating AI systems, emphasizing its integration with Kubernetes and its cost…

  • Cloud Blog: How SIGNAL IDUNA supercharges customer service with gen AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-signal-iduna-supercharges-customer-service-with-gen-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How SIGNAL IDUNA supercharges customer service with gen AI Feedly Summary: Today’s insurance customers expect more: simple digital services, instant access to service representatives when they want to discuss personal matters, and quick feedback on submitted invoices. Meeting these demands has become increasingly difficult for insurers due to…

  • The Register: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/training_inference_shift/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game Feedly Summary: When it’s all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what’s behind the curtain? Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google’s TPUs or Amazon’s Trainium ASICs, the vast majority…

  • Cloud Blog: ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-scann-for-alloydb-vector-search-compares-to-pgvector-hnsw/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors Feedly Summary: Executive Summary – ScaNN for AlloyDB is the first Postgres-based vector search extension that supports vector indexes of all sizes, while providing fast index builds, fast transactional updates,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-openrouter 0.4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/10/llm-openrouter-04/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-openrouter 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-openrouter 0.4 I found out this morning that OpenRouter include support for a number of (rate-limited) free API models. I occasionally workshops on top of LLMs (like this one) and being able to provide students with a quick way to obtain an API…