President Signs EO Raising Fee on H-1B Visas to $100,000 All those foreign citizens that Silicon Valley hires (thousands or more for each large company). The NEW fee to file a visa application went from $215 to $100,000. It is designed to discourage the abuse of the program and only use it for exceptionally skilled […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Favoring ChatGPT Over His Chatbot Apple has had its fair share of lawsuits over the years as they try to control the Apple universe. Lately, some of those walls have seemed a bit shaky. In this case, Musk is whining that Apple is favoring Sam Altman’s (OpenAI, ChatGPT) app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably not, but it could have some impact. The key parameters for what an LLM can do is the number of “parameters” it can run. Up until now, anything larger than 32 billion parameters and most computers that you might buy in the store will come to a screeching halt. But now, someone on Reddit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Move fast and break things is Silicon Valley’s motto. Sam Altman (OpenAI) obliged. When OpenAI released Chat GPT-5 last week they thought they had a winner on their hands. As part of the release, OpenAI got rid of the option for users to pick the model that they wanted to use – GPT-5 knows better […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last year California governor Newsom vetoed an AI safety bill that big tech donors didn’t like. That bill, SB 1047, would have required big tech to do safety testing of their AI models. Newsom said it would hurt innovation. Now another fight is happening. Assembly bill 412 would require generative AI developers to meticulously document […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]
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