Conestoga among colleges that didn’t apply for government money to find efficiencies

Six of Ontario’s publicly-funded colleges chose not to apply to a government fund set up to look for operational efficiencies, including one that is now under the control of a provincially-appointed supervisor. The Ford government created its efficiency and accountability fund as part of a $1.3-billion funding announcement in 2024 to stabilize the post-secondary sector…

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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of open-source large language models to run on a variety of chips — including Nvidia’s, AMD’s,…

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EU Again Set For Vote on ‘Chat Control’

said on Tuesday. “This means that on Thursday, we will once again vote on extending the derogation that allowed online platforms to scan our private communications.” Rejecting a proposal requires an absolute majority Gregorová said rejecting or amending the proposal will require an absolute majority of 361 votes in Parliament. The vote Tuesday narrowly passed,…

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