Ceramics — the humble mix of earth, fire and artistry — have been part of a global conversation for millennia. From Tang Dynasty trade routes to Renaissance palaces, from museum vitrines to high-stakes auction floors, they’ve carried culture across borders, evolving into status symbols, commodities and pieces of contested history. Their value has been shaped by aesthetics and economics, empire and, now, technology. This figure visualizes 20 representative Chinese ceramic craftsmanship styles across seven historical periods, ranging from […]

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By the “benevolent nature of capitalism,” I mean the fact that it promotes human life and well-being and does so for everyone.

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Even with the holidays coming up, the digital rights news doesn’t stop. Thankfully, EFF is here to keep you up-to-date with our EFFector newsletter! In our latest issue, we’re explaining why politicians latest attempts to ban VPNs is a terrible idea; asking supporters to file public comments opposing new rules that would make bad patents untouchable; and sharing a privacy victory—Sacramento is forced to end its dragnet surveillance program of power meter data. Prefer to listen in? Check out our audio companion, where […]

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I frequently refer to OpenAI and the likes as LLM 1.0, by contrast to our xLLM architecture that I present as LLM 2.0. Over time, I received a lot of questions. Here I address the main differentiators. First, xLLM is a no-Blackbox, secure, auditable, double-distilled agentic LLM/RAG for trustworthy Enterprise AI, using 10,000 fewer (multi-)tokens, no vector database but Python-native, fast nested hashes in its original version, and no transformer to generate the structured output to a prompt. […]

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Google’s seventh-gen Tensor Processing Unit is here! Learn what makes Ironwood our most powerful and energy-efficient custom silicon to date.

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Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doing outstanding research relevant to NVIDIA technologies. The program, in its 25th year, is now accepting applications worldwide. It focuses on supporting students working in AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, robotics, healthcare, high-performance […]

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Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advancements in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite. Like a good judge, large language models […]

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