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Alphabet CEO Warns AI Bubble Could Hit Every Company

Yesterday at 16:44 PM, via iAfrica

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says no company, including Google, would be immune if the artificial intelligence market were to suffer a valuation correction. In an exclusive interview with BBC News at Google’s California headquarters, Pichai said the rapid surge in AI investment is “an extraordinary moment,” but he acknowledged “irrationality” in parts of the market. […]

Education

Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schools

Conservative governments spent £325m creating 67 free schools that subsequently failed or disappeared, many through lack of demand, according to data revealed by a freedom of information request.

The figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show that the...

Science/Tech

Geminid meteor shower: where to watch Australia’s biggest shooting star show this weekend

Today at 01:00 AM, via The Guardian

Stargazers will be able to see potentially dozens of meteors an hour, with the peak on Sunday night

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They’re bright, they’re plentiful and the Geminids – which make up what’s regarded as one of the best annual meteor showers to witness – are about to reach their peak viewing time.

The Geminid meteors have already been active in our...

Science/Tech

Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Chip Designer Ventana Micro Systems

Today at 00:50 AM, via Slashdot

Qualcomm has acquired RISC-V startup Ventana to strengthen its CPU ambitions beyond mobile, “reinforcing its commitment and leadership in the development of the RISC-V standard and ecosystem,” the company said in a press release. CRN Magazine reports: The San Diego-based company said Ventana’s expertise in RISC-V, a free and open alternative to the Arm and x86 instruction set architectures,...

Science/Tech

Ubuntu Will Have Native AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC Libraries In Next LTS Release

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader MadCow42 writes: Canonical just announced that they’re packaging AMD’s ROCm libraries (for AIML and HPC with both data-center GPUs as well as desktop/laptop GPUs), directly into the Ubuntu Universe archive. You can run ROCm on Ubuntu today but you have to install it via a script from AMD and manually remove and reinstall for any upgrades or bug fixes. Having it in...

Science/Tech

Adobe Integrates With ChatGPT

Yesterday at 23:50 PM, via Slashdot

Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT so users can edit photos, design graphics, and tweak PDFs through the chatbot. The Verge reports: The Adobe apps are free to use, and can be activated by typing the name of the app alongside an uploaded file and conversational instruction, such as “Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the background of this image.” ChatGPT...