Tag: model training

  • Schneier on Security: Subliminal Learning in AIs

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/subliminal-learning-in-ais.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Subliminal Learning in AIs Feedly Summary: Today’s freaky LLM behavior: We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a “student” model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/mistral-environmental-standard/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Feedly Summary: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Mistral have released environmental impact numbers for their largest model, Mistral Large 2, in more detail than I have seen from any of the other large AI…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-nova-customization-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI Feedly Summary: AWS now enables extensive customization of Amazon Nova foundation models through SageMaker AI with techniques including continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, reinforcement learning from human feedback and model distillation to better address domain-specific requirements across…

  • Cloud Blog: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-ml-timesfm-models-now-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model Feedly Summary: Accurate time-series forecasting is essential for many business scenarios such as planning, supply chain management, and resource allocation. BigQuery now embeds TimesFM, a state-of-the-art pre-trained model from Google Research, enabling powerful forecasting via the simple AI.FORECAST function.…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerate your AI workloads with the Google Cloud Managed Lustre

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-managed-lustre-for-ai-hpc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate your AI workloads with the Google Cloud Managed Lustre Feedly Summary: Today, we’re making it even easier to achieve breakthrough performance for your AI/ML workloads: Google Cloud Managed Lustre is now GA, and available in four distinct performance tiers that deliver throughput ranging from 125 MB/s, 250…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Public Sector supports AI-optimized HPC infrastructure for researchers at Caltech

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-public-sector-supports-ai-optimized-hpc-infrastructure-for-researchers-at-caltech/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Public Sector supports AI-optimized HPC infrastructure for researchers at Caltech Feedly Summary: For decades, institutions like Caltech, have been at the forefront of large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) research. As high-performance computing (HPC) clusters continue to evolve, researchers across disciplines have been increasingly equipped to process massive datasets,…

  • The Register: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/tariffs_and_trade_turmoil_driving/ Source: The Register Title: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters Feedly Summary: Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something’s gotta give World War Fee Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing…

  • Slashdot: Cloudflare Flips AI Scraping Model With Pay-Per-Crawl System For Publishers

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/1745245/cloudflare-flips-ai-scraping-model-with-pay-per-crawl-system-for-publishers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cloudflare Flips AI Scraping Model With Pay-Per-Crawl System For Publishers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cloudflare’s new “Pay Per Crawl” program introduces a monetization option for website owners, allowing them to charge AI companies for content access used for model training. This initiative is significant as…