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Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated references to sources that do not exist, as well as wrong cost totals.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly weighing annual software fees of around $2,000 per GPU for enterprise AI, a model that could generate $10 billion a year if five million licenses were sold.
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a drop-in learned token pruning module for LLMs. It cuts long-context prefill time-to-first-token by 1.4x to 11.3x and peak memory by 1.5x to 3.4x without accuracy loss.
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“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last month.
Amazon has settled its lawsuit against two former Amazon Web Services real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on data centre deals, GeekWire reported. Amazon told the court on 20 October, less than two weeks before trial.
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had cut the link for fast-moving drones since 14 October.
“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten U.S. national security,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
“I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement,” cable billionaire John Malone said on Tuesday. Two days later, Semafor reported that Elon Musk had invested roughly $1bn in Skydance, the media group David Ellison formed from Paramount and Warner Bros.
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