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Experts found traces of AI testing in the latest beta version of Apple iOS 17.4

Ahead of Apple's announcement of new AI features for iOS 18, which is expected to take place in June, the company is stepping up research and development in this area. After analyzing the code of the latest beta version of iOS 17.4, experts found attempts to integrate large Apple language models into the iOS ecosystem, especially in applications such as Messages and the Siri voice assistant. Image source: AppleSource: 3dnews.ru

Elon Musk said he intends to buy AMD accelerators for Tesla supercomputers

At the last quarterly Tesla conference, Elon Musk made it clear that he intends to develop the computing resources of Tesla both through the purchase of NVIDIA accelerators and through the development of his own Dojo supercomputer. Yesterday he added that he is ready to buy AMD accelerators in addition to specialized NVIDIA components. Image source: AMD Source: 3dnews.ru

Swedish electric car maker Polestar will lay off hundreds of employees

Swedish electric vehicle company Polestar will cut its global workforce by 15%. Around 450 people are expected to be laid off from the company due to current "challenging market conditions". The automaker's move comes despite a six percent increase in its global EV shipments in 2023, which it recently reported in its financial report […]

Flathub has surpassed one million active users

One of the popular ways to distribute programs on various popular Linux distributions is Flatpak. Flatpak is a deployment, package management, and virtualization utility for Linux. Provides a sandbox in which users can run applications without affecting the main system. Unlike snap, Flatpak is not distributed centrally, and one of the most popular places is Flathub. Repository […]

Flathub app directory surpasses 1 million users

Flathub, positioned as a vendor-neutral marketplace for distributing Flatpak packages, announced it has reached one million active users. Currently, the catalog contains more than 2400 applications, of which more than 850 have received verified status, i.e. accompanied by the original authors. The total number of package downloads is estimated at 1.6 billion. When counting active users [...]

Juno detected signs of surface activity on Europa, a moon of Jupiter

It is highly likely that the icy satellites of Jupiter, and Europa in particular, have deep subsurface oceans. Each of these small celestial bodies may contain many times more water than the entire Earth. It is all the more interesting to look for signs of this water coming to the surface in the form of geysers and through cracks, in order to someday penetrate under the thickness of the ice of these moons of Jupiter in […]

OpenVINO 2023.3

On January 24, Intel engineers released a major update to the leading open-source artificial intelligence toolkit OpenVINO 2023.3. It provides full support for the new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, as well as other Intel hardware enhancements for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLM). OpenVINO 2023.3 introduces the OpenVINO Gen AI repository […]