Black Mirror has been renewed for another season

In an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker announced today that the sci-fi anthology series will be returning for an eighth season. “Well, luckily it does have a future, so I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it,” Brooker said. “That chunk … Read more

Accelerating LLM inference with post-training weight and activation using AWQ and GPTQ on Amazon SageMaker AI

Foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) have been rapidly scaling, often doubling in parameter count within months, leading to significant improvements in language understanding and generative capabilities. This rapid growth comes with steep costs: inference now requires enormous memory capacity, high-performance GPUs, and substantial energy consumption. This trend is evident in the open … Read more

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing

Shadowheart contemplates a powerful artifact in Baldur’s Gate 3 Following some controversy, the developers at Baldur’s Gate 3 creator Larian Studios have further clarified their use of generative AI. CEO Swen Vincke and other Larian developers held an AMA on Reddit where they answered users’ questions about the team’s next title, Divinity. They also fielded … Read more

ZEC Rebounds 11%! Trump says he won’t pardon Sam Bankman-Fried! Florida revisits it’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve!

Crypto majors are mostly flat ahead of today’s supreme court opinion on the trump tariffs; btc +1% at $90,300; eth 13% at $3,090, sol +3% at $138; xrp +1% to $2.10. Polygon (+11%), zec (+11%) and syrup (+7%) led top movers. Jpmorgan said the recent bitcoin and ethereum sell-off may be bottoming, pointing to improving … Read more