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    OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share But a cascade of recent developments has caused OpenAI’s executives to shift away from their most aggressive aspirations. Top of mind is what has happened to Elon Musk’s SpaceX after...
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    Chinese A.I. Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/zai-china-artificial-intelligence-models.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Z.ai is on the cutting edge of a wave of powerful but inexpensive A.I. from China that is challenging the lock that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have had on the industry. Six of...
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    U.S. Loosens Restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos A.I. Model

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/anthropic-mythos-government-restrictions.html Anthropic and the Trump administration reached a deal on Friday to bring one of the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models back online, after days of tense negotiations. Talks were still...
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    Everyone, use AI Tools! Make your life easier...until

    No surprise. The received wisdom is that no software is bug-free. However, I wonder if MS ran this code through Anthropic Mythos. If yes did Mythos miss a vulnerability
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    Free ASUS AM7-266D dual Athlon CPU system

    Yes, it is a shame, because I had always hoped to pass along this system to someone else. The era of dual CPUs in consumer boards is long since gone. But can you imagine 2 AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs on a consumer motherboard. :)
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    IBM Says It Has Found a Way to Keep Shrinking the Technology Inside Chips

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/ibm-technology-tinier-chips.html Using a novel approach to making smaller transistors that act as tiny switches in microprocessors and other chips, IBM said, the new production process can squeeze nearly twice as many transistors on a...
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    Welcome to the Luxury City Built by Taiwan’s A.I. Boom

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/business/taiwan-chips-boom.html s Taiwan’s semiconductor industry took off, TSMC made chips that drive virtually every kind of electronic device. That includes the sought-after A.I. accelerators designed by Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company. Farmers...
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    Free ASUS AM7-266D dual Athlon CPU system

    Anyone from SF Bay Area still interested. Guy who said he was interested got told NO by his wife. If no one wants this by July 31,then it all gets recycled. Sorry but if I'm going to just give all this away I can';t spend any time shipping. That is from MY WIFE.
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    DRAM Pricing Jumps 50%, Only 70% of Orders Getting Filled

    Just what I needed to read before planning a major non-systems purchase. Will we get any relief from new Chinese manufacturers any time soon? Dare we hope? Or does this warning include new sources of supply?
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    AI Token Factory is the New Unit of Computing

    Stupid question. Can tokens be built in advance and stored, or they generated in response to a query?
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    Free ASUS AM7-266D dual Athlon CPU system

    OK so offer me some decent money and come out to my house to pick it up or pay for some service to pick it up and ship it to you.
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    Free ASUS AM7-266D dual Athlon CPU system

    My wife just wants it out of the house. If someone picks it up that's work I don't have to do schlepping the case, keyboard etc to UPS.
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    AI Token Factory is the New Unit of Computing

    And what about power and water use. And noise and increase in consumer electric rates?
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    Free ASUS AM7-266D dual Athlon CPU system

    What state are you in? I'm in CA. I hate to think of what it would cost for me to haul all that stuff down to the local UPS store for packing and shipping.
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    Explaining token use to a non-techie

    I'm struggling to explain to my non-techie wife how LLMs work with tokens, because I don't really know much about it. Please ejumacate me.
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