Thursday, May 15, 2025

Should Facebook's Meta buy Cerebras and Groq to make Llama the Android of LLMs? I think it totally makes sense

Meta launches Llama 4 API with Groq and Cerebras as partners Llama models offer lower costs and faster output than competitors Buying Cerebras and Groq could help Meta fully own AI stack At LlamaCon 2025, Meta Platforms launched its Llama 4 API, offering pay-per-use access to its models, hosted on Meta’s own hardware and via inference partners Groq and Cerebras. As The Next Platform noted, this...

How to Stock a 'Tariff Pantry'

Americans are living through interesting times, economically. The tariffs imposed, delayed, and frequently adjusted by the government have thrown household budgets into confusion. One thing that’s pretty certain is that the baseline tariffs applied to just about every country are likely to raise prices at the grocery store no matter what happens from here (prices could go up by about 3% overall). For...

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Alibaba 'ZeroSearch' can reduce AI for search training cost by 88%, company claims

Alibaba's ZeroSearch can generate training material for its AI Cost savings of up to 88% are possible The tech requires additional GPUs Alibaba's Tongyi Lab has found a way to train AI search models without using real search engines, which it says can reduce search training costs by up to 88% compared to commercial APIs like Google. In a paper entitled "Incentivize the Search Capability of LLMs...

iOS 19 Will Make It Easier to Sign Into Public Wifi on Multiple Devices

It feels like a minor problem, I'll admit it. But you know when you check into a hotel and have to spend the next fifteen minutes connecting all your Apple devices to the network? Starting from your iPhone, then moving to your iPad, and then your Mac? Well, it looks like Apple understands your pain. According to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, iOS 19 will include a new feature that will...

Monday, May 12, 2025

Are you due a payout from Apple's $95 million Siri settlement? Here's how to claim

Apple is paying out $95 million to settle a Siri class-action lawsuit If you think you're eligible, you need to submit a claim by July 2 Apple has denied all wrongdoing in settling the case Back in January, Apple agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its Siri voice assistant. The case...

What You Should Hoard Before Tariff Price Increases Kick In

If there’s one thing everyone knows about the impact of the tariffs, it’s that no one knows anything. Confusion is the general theme as tariff rates go up and down depending on the day, and trade deals get announced that, well, don’t actually remove any tariffs. So don’t feel bad if you have no idea how to plan for what’s coming. The one thing everyone agrees on is that we’re going to experience higher...
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