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Friday 6 November

Accelerating Reinforcement Learning Weight Refit with the Reshard Collective

AI-generated summary NVIDIA discusses the Reshard collective to address weight refit challenges during reinforcement learning post-training when running inference and training in parallel on separate GPU resources. NVIDIA states that NCCL M2N Reshard is available as an open source reference implementation through the NVIDIA/nccl-extensions GitHub repository.

Oracle falls 4% as Microsoft reportedly winds down AI cloud capacity deal By Investing.com

AI-generated summary Oracle shares fell 4% on Friday following a report that Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing capacity. An Oracle spokesperson stated that demand for the company's AI infrastructure remains strong, including for earlier-generation graphics processing units.

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AWS launches support for amortization of EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML - AWS

AI-generated summary Amazon Web Services, Inc. announces that AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Data Exports for Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now amortize the upfront fee for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML across the duration of each reservation. Amazon Web Services, Inc. states that this feature is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.

AI’s Newest Billionaires Want No Part of Superintelligence Race

AI-generated summary The three co-founders of AI lab Cohere hold stakes worth an estimated $1 billion each after the Toronto-based company reached a $25.5 billion valuation in its latest funding round, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. While Anthropic and OpenAI are said to be targeting valuations of more than $1 trillion, the co-founders are starting to question the race to build ever more powerful artificial intelligence.

The AI boom isn't wiping out white-collar workers — but it's changing the skills you need to get ahead

AI-generated summary America's professional and business services sector added 70,000 payrolls in October, exceeding the average monthly gain of 15,000 jobs observed over the past year. Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist Heather Long states that the recovery in professional and business services indicates artificial intelligence is not eliminating white-collar jobs.

Infineon bets AI boom will raise demand for underlying infrastructure chips | Andreas Urschitz interview

AI-generated summary Andreas Urschitz says Infineon Technologies is focusing heavily on foundational infrastructure chips and edge AI components to meet rising industry demand. Infineon says it is investing in silicon carbide and gallium nitride technologies to improve power efficiency for datacenters and industrial systems.

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