High 5: Mass. student spends year in Malaysia as youth ambassador, gives back through teaching

A Concord-Carlisle High School senior who spent nearly a year studying halfway around the world is now using that experience to give back to others.
Morning Overview on MSN

Report: Nvidia is developing a $20B AI chip aimed at faster inference

Nvidia is reportedly developing a specialized processor aimed at accelerating AI inference, a move that could reshape how ...

Broadcom and Nvidia Just Delivered Blowout Earnings. Which Is the Better Growth Stock to Buy in March?

Broadcom and Nvidia have what it takes to be foundational AI growth stocks for long-term investors. Both semiconductor stocks have produced monster gains in recent years, but remain reasonably valued ...
SDxCentral

Arrcus network fabric layer aims to direct AI inference traffic

Arrcus launched a new network fabric layer targeted at potential traffic bottlenecks caused by the growing use of AI inferencing services. The Arrcus Inference Network Fabric (AINF) is designed to ...
Edutopia

Just Like Phonics, Comprehension Requires Explicit Teaching

Walk into most kindergarten or first grade classrooms during a reading block and you’ll hear the familiar rhythm of phonics instruction: segmenting sounds, blending words, and practicing fluency. This ...
VentureBeat

AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell — but hardware is only half the equation

Lowering the cost of inference is typically a combination of hardware and software. A new analysis released Thursday by Nvidia details how four leading inference providers are reporting 4x to 10x ...
TechCrunch

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should ...
Network World

Microsoft launches its second generation AI inference chip, Maia 200

Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, the company says Maia is optimized for AI inference on multiple models. Signaling that the future of AI may not just be how ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

UT-Austin Is Closing Its Teaching Center. Faculty Members Ask: Why?

The University of Texas at Austin is shuttering its longstanding Center for Teaching and Learning at the end of the semester, part of a wave of changes announced last Friday that include the closure ...
The New York Times

This Is No Way to Run a University

Mr. Lukianoff is the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Martin Peterson, a Texas A&M University philosophy professor, was presented last week with a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four Architectural Opportunities for LLM Inference Hardware (Google)

“Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI ...