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Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs ordered by Tesla to X. He had
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percent
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NVIDIA EMAILS: ELON MUSK DIVERTING TESLA GPUS TO HIS OTHER COMPANIE=
S
(3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20
Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs ordere=
d by Tesla to X. He had
told investors in April that Tesla had spent $1 b=
illion on GPUs in the
three months of the year. Tesla has been developing=
its own in-house
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TLDR
Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs ordered by Tesla to X. He had told=
investors in April that Tesla had spent $1 billion on GPUs
It's not just you: Google s=
eemingly scaled back AI Overviews after its rocky launch (3 minute read)
Google has scaled back AI Overviews. Th=
e AI-generated answers are now appearing in around 11 percent of queries, d=
own from around 27 percent when the feature was launched last month. The co=
mpany is still in the process of refining the feature. AI Overviews are app=
earing most in health-focused searches, despite the company highlighting th=
e tool's use for shopping, restaurant recommendations, and travel in its ma=
rketing.
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Nvidia emails: Elon Musk di=
verting Tesla GPUs to his other companies (3 minute read)
Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs o=
rdered by Tesla to X. He had told investors in April that Tesla had spent $=
1 billion on GPUs in the three months of the year. Tesla has been developin=
g its own in-house supercomputer for AI, but Musk has previously said that =
it would be redundant if the company could source more H100s. X's order of =
12,000 H100s will be redirected to Tesla.
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|
Science & Futuristic Technology
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Flawed, scandalous trials t=
ank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy (4 minute read)
Advisors for the Food and Drug Administ=
ration have voted overwhelmingly against approving MDMA as part of a therap=
y for post-traumatic stress disorder. While results from clinical trials sh=
owed positive results, a deeper look at the data uncovered a large number o=
f trial flaws that threw the validity of the positive results into serious =
question. The FDA is conducting an investigation into accusations of possib=
le data manipulation during the trials. There were claims that some of the =
trial participants were discouraged from reporting negative responses to th=
e therapy.
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=E2=80=98Extremely impressi=
ve': melanoma jab trial results excite doctors (3 minute read)
A mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma halv=
es the risk of patients dying or the disease returning after three years. T=
he vaccine is custom-built for each patient and specific to each patient's =
tumor. The average risk of recurrence for the type of advanced cancer the s=
tudy focused on is 50%, but the vaccine brought the risk of recurrence down=
to 25%. The data from the study suggests that levels of cancer relapse did=
not increase in people with high-risk, advanced-stage melanoma.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integra=
tions (4 minute read)
SDKs are not always beneficial and can =
complicate the development process. They often organize API interactions di=
fferently to how developers want them, have hidden complexities, use outdat=
ed dependencies, and have learning overhead. Using direct API calls allows =
for offline development, custom typing information, and easier swapping of =
vendors. SDKs can still be useful for deep integration with a service, but =
for simple API integrations, they introduce too much unnecessary bloat and =
cognitive overhead.
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Introducing Staging Ground:=
The private space to get feedback on questions before they're posted (4 mi=
nute read)
Staging Ground is a private space where=
new askers on Stack Overflow can get help from experienced users to improv=
e their questions before posting to the broader community. Reviewers provid=
e feedback on how to improve questions by leaving comments and moving quest=
ions into different statuses based on how much the questions need to be imp=
roved. Staging Ground was created to improve the new user experience while =
also increasing the quality of questions on Stack Overflow. It is now avail=
able to all new question-askers on the platform.
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Situational Awareness (Book=
)
Everyone is talking about AI, but few k=
now what is about to hit them. This book looks at what the future holds for=
AI. It discusses the road to AGI, superintelligence, scaling, security, an=
d more. While many people may think that those in the AI industry are crazy=
, those that built the technology believe that it will change the world bef=
ore the decade is out.
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Inbox ten (7 minute read)=
strong>
This post presents tips on how to stay =
up to date on information and how to maintain an information ecosystem. You=
r ability to be effective is a function of your ability to efficiently inge=
st the information around you. Stay informed and advance your own work whil=
e also keeping others informed so they can do the same. One of the most imp=
ortant tools to use is to just decline to engage - don't let things linger =
or get talked into work you don't think is a good use of your time.
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