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Microsoft pulls out of two big data centre deals because it reportedly doesn't want to support more OpenAI training workloads
2025-05-04 09:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Microsoft has pulled out of deals to lease its data centres for additional training of OpenAI's language model ChatGPT. This news seems surprising given the perceived popularity of the model, but the field of AI technology is a contentious one, for a lot of good reasons. The combination of high running cost, relatively low returns, and increasing competitionplus working on it's own sickening AI-made Quake 2 demohave proven enough reason for Microsoft to bow out of two gigawatt worth of projects across the US and Europe.Sometimes AI can refer to clever machine learning that helps researchers find plastic eating enzymes, or teach robot dogs how to walk using its own nervous system. However, more often than not AI refers to power guzzling language models and image generators, usually trained on stolen uncredited data to provide shonky results. ChatGPT falls into the latter of these categories, and according to Reuters, a large portion of Microsoft's cut down on leasing is due to its dec...
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More global tech firms ditch carrots, pull out sticks with escalating office mandates
2025-05-04 07:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
After years of leading corporate America's adoption of more flexible work policies, global tech companies are enforcing stricter in-office mandates. Silicon Valley heavyweights including Google parent company Alphabet and chipmaker Intel have recently joined a growing cohort of other tech companies across the United States in demanding more in-person time from its employees, either by revoking remote-work privileges for some employees or increasing the number of days they're required to commute to an office. Within his first few weeks on the job, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan increased the number of days employees will be required to report to an office, a shift he said was critical to the tech company's broader plans for a corporate shake up. I strongly believe that our sites need to be vibrant hubs of collaboration that reflect our culture in action, Tan said on his first earnings call at the helm of the company. When we spend time together in person, it fosters more engaging and productiv...
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Ryan Reynolds Thinks Daughters Could've Helped Late Dad
2025-05-04 07:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Ryan Reynolds wishes his late father couldve met his and Blake Livelys daughters.The actor appeared at Acadia Pharmaceuticals New York City panel for Parkinsons Awareness Month on Friday, April 25, and explained that his dad James Jim Chester Reynolds who died in 2015 at age 74 after living with Parkinsons for nearly 20 years would have benefited from getting to know James, 10, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5. (Reynolds, 48, and Lively, 37, also share son Olin, 2.)I think my dad, being a father of four boys, if he had met these three little girls that we have, I think it wouldve changed profoundly, Reynolds told People of his fathers life. Obviously they changed me profoundly, but he really wouldve benefited. I think, actually, I know this sounds maybe [like] a stretch but I think his health wouldve improved if hed been able to spend some time with them.Reynolds also shared a special memory he and his brothers Jeff, Terry and Patrick cherish of their dad. Related: Rya...
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