I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

People who had previously felt paralyzed by their NDA’s began to talk. Helena, the conflict-avoidant moderator of the Mercor subreddit, worked overtime deleting furious rants from aggrieved workers who delighted in dropping names of the “secret projects”—something explicitly banned by the non-disclosure agreement every tasker must sign before being hired as an Independent Contractor. Elsewhere,…

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Bad news for internet users

Internet users in Pakistan may experience slower connectivity in the coming days, particularly those relying on services from Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited. According to an official notice issued by PTCL, internet speeds across the country could be affected from May 11 to May 18 due to technical repair work on a submarine cable. During this…

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Sakana AI and NVIDIA Introduce TwELL with CUDA Kernels for 20.5% Inference and 21.9% Training Speedup in LLMs

Scaling large language models (LLMs) is expensive. Every token processed during inference and every gradient computed during training flows through feedforward layers that account for over two-thirds of model parameters and more than 80% of total FLOPs in larger models. A team researchers from Sakana AI and NVIDIA have worked on a new research that…

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