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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company’s sales are now data center products — not chips for personal computers, not game consoles, not embedded chips for industry or vehicles. The company’s data center business has doubled in a single year, and this quarter’s growth was primarily due to a single chip: the AMD Instinct MI300 accelerator, which competes with Nvidia’s infamously influential H100 AI chip. The AMD chip just did over $1 billion in sales in a single quarter, according to CEO Lisa Su, up from its previous milestone of $1 billion cumulatively since its December 2023 debut. (AMD says its Epyc server CPUs also contributed.) Image: AMD A... Continue reading…

Image: Meta Meta has shut down its AI chatbots that let you have conversations with alter-ego versions of celebrities, as reported by The Information. The celebrity chatbots were a big part of Meta’s announcements at its Connect event last September, now, you can’t talk with them anymore. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Brady (@tombrady) The shutdown follows Meta’s Monday rollout of AI Studio, a tool that lets creators in the US make AI chatbots of themselves. Based on a statement, the company seems to be favoring this direction rather than the more handcrafted celebrity bots. “You can no longer interact with AI characters embodied by celebrities,” Meta spokesperson Liz Sweeney says to The Verge.... Continue reading…

Recent excavations at the famed archaeological site of Atapuerca (Sierra de Atapuerca) in northern Spain’s Burgos province unearthed the skeletal remains of an individual who belonged to an archaic human species known as Homo antecessor. This species walked the earth between 1.2 million and 800,000 years ago, and is the oldest hominin found in the fossil records of Western Europe. The Earliest European Hominin      Homo antecessor, which means “pioneer man” in Latin, was first discovered in the Gran Dolina cavern at  Atapuerca in 1994, or 30 years before the most recent find. It was identified as a distinct species in 1997, and for a time was considered to be the last common ancestor shared by modern humans and Neanderthals. More recent research has suggested this is not true, however, and the current scientific consensus is that Homo antecessor was an offshoot of the modern human evolutionary line that developed just before humans and Neanderthal’s split. Read moreSection: NewsEvolution & Human OriginsHuman OriginsScienceRead Later 

Amazon is responsible under federal safety law for hazardous products sold on its platform by third-party sellers and shipped by the company, a U.S. government agency ordered Tuesday. In a unanimous vote, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said it determined that the ...

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A Secret Service sniper is claiming another assassination attempt against a presidential candidate is inevitable before Election Day.

With fewer than 100 days until the 2024 election, social media users are claiming that a lack of Google autocomplete results about former President Donald Trump and his attempted assassination is evidence of election interference. Many posts include screenshots showing what ...