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Saturday 7 November

Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models

AI-generated summary Fireworks AI VP Rob Ferguson explains that using a portfolio of models and automated routing through Nexus and its API helps reduce costs and improve utilization. Ferguson also notes that caching rates and data retention policies impact overall expenses while platforms like Microsoft help handle sensitive workloads.

PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem

AI-generated summary The 2.15 release of PyTorch introduces a rewritten backend for Nvidia's Collective Communications Library to improve fault diagnosis and recovery when multiple GPUs work together. The updated software includes a flight recorder to capture operations after failures occur, along with support for Nvidia's next-generation Blackwell GPUs and parallel processing improvements for Apple gear.

Friday 6 November

Nvidia Boosts Chip Tracking in Southeast Asia to Fight Smuggling

AI-generated summary Nvidia Corp. is increasing the monitoring of artificial intelligence accelerators sold in Southeast Asia to combat semiconductor smuggling. The chipmaker now requires regional customers to use its fleet intelligence system to track hardware locations in order to become official Nvidia Cloud Partners.

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Wednesday 4 November

After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming

AI-generated summary Following the midterm results, Democrats secured full control of Congress and made data center limitations available for discussion. Goldman Sachs predicts that data center construction delays will occur in states like Georgia and Texas due to these Democratic gains.

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