The Departure of Jon Stewart from ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’

The Departure of Jon Stewart from ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’

Technology

Jon Stewart’s departure from ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ on Apple TV came as a surprise, as the third season of the series was about to begin filming. Apple executives had concerns about the topics Stewart wanted to cover, particularly China and artificial intelligence. Stewart chose to leave rather than compromise his creative control, prompting Apple to decide not to renew the series. China has long been a controversial topic, and AI models have also been under fire for copyright and privacy issues. Apple, a Silicon Valley giant, is working on its AI rival while trying to protect its platform’s image.

Researchers Develop ‘Ring Attention’ Approach to Boost AI Model Capacity

Researchers Develop ‘Ring Attention’ Approach to Boost AI Model Capacity

Business

Researchers introduce ‘Ring Attention,’ a novel approach to address memory limitations of GPUs in training and running AI models. The method involves using a ring structure of GPUs to pass information and eliminate the memory bottleneck, enabling AI models to handle much larger context windows. This breakthrough opens the potential to process millions of words as input and analyze them to produce coherent responses. The researchers demonstrated an increase in the context length from 16,000 to a theoretically possible 4 million tokens. Nevertheless, the demand for Nvidia’s AI chips is unlikely to decrease as developers and tech companies will explore larger and bolder applications using this new technique.