What was once a flood of health care workers catching the coronavirus in Los Angeles County has now slowed to a trickle, in large part because the vast majority of them have been vaccinated, local public health officials said. Reports of new virus cases among health care workers in the …
Read More »Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D …
Read More »In Sign of Progress, Fewer Than 1% of New York’s Virus Tests Are Positive
This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ‘Be smart’: New Yorkers get good news on virus numbers, but also a warning. Skyrocketing cases push India to No. 2 on the pandemic list. Britain is stunned by a spike in daily cases. Kamala …
Read More »Amazon Wants You to Buy Fewer Things: Here’s Why
Photo by Antonio Guillem / Shutterstock.com It’s rare for a retailer to encourage you to buy fewer items — but Amazon is doing just that. As shoppers stuck in their homes make a virtual stampede to Amazon to buy things for delivery, the online retailer has “taken a number of …
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