Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method
Perplexity, along with NVIDIA team, has introduced JOLT, a new post-training method for language models….
Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
The data analysis company Palantir delivered such a huge third-quarter earnings report on Monday that its press release even bragged that the numbers were “crushing consensus expectations.” Yet retail investors were lukewarm on the company on Tuesday, with the stock trading slightly down. That’s because Palantir’s enterprise sales, its big growth area, showed signs of…
New Kelowna councillors intend to improve public discourse – Okanagan
Re-elected Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas is promising better communication and more listening as the city’s new council begins its term. But whether that includes greater access to individual councillors before decisions are made remains an open question. At Monday’s swearing-in ceremony, Dyas pledged to find more ways to listen and communicate. Asked what that would…
Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
Stuck in years-long lines for grid connections and new turbines, some AI data centers are making their own electricity with converted jet engines, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The engines, pulled from retired aircraft and rebuilt to burn natural gas, aren’t anyone’s idea of a permanent power plant. But they’re another sign of how…
New Winnipeg city council takes office, sets agenda at inaugural meeting – Winnipeg
Winnipeg’s new city council has officially taken the reins after being sworn in at city hall Tuesday. Nine new faces are sitting on Winnipeg’s freshly elected city council alongside six incumbent city councillors. Mayor Scott Gillingham also retained his role in last week’s election and is set to begin his second term. He will lead the council…
Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for provable inference. FlashProve is a zkSNARK system from Anthropic that proves a reply came from a committed model. The proof reveals nothing about the model weights. On Llama 4 Maverick, a 400B mixture-of-experts model, it proves about 110 tokens/second on 1 H100. For…
Mixed reaction to City of Edmonton’s proposed 2027-2030 budgets – Edmonton
There’s no shortage of opinions on the City of Edmonton’s draft budgets for 2027-2030 that was released Monday. The proposed fiscal plan includes more spending on city services and infrastructure, along with year-over-year property tax increases. Mayor Andrew Knack admits he’s still reading through the budget but said he likes what he has seen so…
NVIDIA Shows 3 Ways to Speed Up MoE Inference on DGX Spark, Lifting Ling-3.0-flash Throughput 42.5%
NVIDIA’s latest technical blog shows how to speed up mixture-of-experts (MoE) inference on one DGX Spark. The test model is Ant Group inclusionAI’s Ling-3.0-flash, a 124B-parameter MoE with 5.1B active parameters. NVIDIA stacked three optimizations: a new MoE kernel backend, an FP8 output layer and built-in speculative decoding. On all 1,319 GSM8K questions, decode throughput…
BC Conservatives could have a fall legislative session as party eager to get to work
Descrease article font size Increase article font size There is still a possibility that Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson will call for a fall legislative session, as he said on Monday that he is eager to get to work. “A better economy, a better health-care system, safer streets, that is what we were sent here to do,…
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Anthropic is working on an open-source system to verify which AI model produced a given output, according to a blog post published Tuesday. The system, called FlashProve, is built to provide what researchers call “provable inference” – a cryptographic proof, essentially a mathematical guarantee, that a given output came from a specific model. It’s meant…
Alberta bill to limit institutional speech, comments from post-secondary schools
Alberta is proposing a new law that would restrict post-secondary schools from being able to weigh in on social and political issues. Myles McDougall, Alberta’s Advanced Education Minister, tabled the Advanced Education Statues Amendment Act Tuesday afternoon. If passed, it will require post-secondary schools to develop and implement institutional neutrality and freedom of expression policies,…
