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  • Slashdot: AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/138232/ai-boom-sparks-fight-over-soaring-power-costs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the escalating electricity demands driven by AI data center construction in the U.S., highlighting tensions between tech companies and utility providers regarding the financial responsibilities for grid upgrades. This situation…

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

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    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…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing Oracle Database@AWS for simplified Oracle Exadata migrations to the AWS Cloud

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-oracle-databaseaws-for-simplified-oracle-exadata-migrations-to-the-aws-cloud/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing Oracle Database@AWS for simplified Oracle Exadata migrations to the AWS Cloud Feedly Summary: Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available with planned extension to 20 new Regions. This blog shows you how to get started and how to integrate with zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3,…

  • AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-c8gn-instances-powered-by-aws-graviton4-offering-up-to-600gbps-network-bandwidth/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth Feedly Summary: Amazon EC2 announces general availability of C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth for demanding network-intensive workloads with 30% higher compute performance…

  • Slashdot: Meta’s Llama 3.1 Can Recall 42% of the First Harry Potter Book

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/15/2230206/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-of-the-first-harry-potter-book?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s Llama 3.1 Can Recall 42% of the First Harry Potter Book Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant findings from a research study that highlights the memorization capabilities of Llama 3.1 70B, an AI model from Meta. It raises concerns about potential legal…

  • AWS News Blog: In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-new-availability-zone-in-maryland-for-us-east-n-virginia-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region Feedly Summary: AWS is adding a new Availability Zone in Maryland to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region by 2026, enhancing redundancy and supporting growing AI workloads while maintaining high-bandwidth, low-latency network…

  • AWS News Blog: Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nova-reel-1-1-featuring-up-to-2-minutes-multi-shot-videos/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos Feedly Summary: Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots, and quality and latency improvements over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • The Register: Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn ‘capital of the world’ Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/datacenter_power_virginia/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn ‘capital of the world’ Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024 Feedly Summary: Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand Demand for electricity from datacenters in Virginia nearly doubled in the second half of 2024, power supplier Dominion…