A study by Common Sense Media showed many say they'd just as soon talk with AI as with humans, but the survey company recommends that "no one younger than 18 should use AI companions." [...]
Netflix pitted its years-old recommendation engine against an in-house language model called GenRec and says it got better results. Instead of relying on thousands of hand-crafted features, GenRec converts viewing behavior into plain text. Netflix itself calls it "an early but promising step."<br /> The article Netflix tests language model as alternative to hand-built recommendatio [...]
For decades, the legacy Hollywood studios have made money by slicing and dicing the licenses to their ever-growing vaults of movies and TV shows to as many channels and streamers as possible in as many countries and territories as you can count. That's why shows available on Max in one country might switch to Netflix in another, and disappear altogether in a third. And savvy viewers have long [...]
Enterprises can't fix their GPU waste problem because the fix makes the problem worse. Releasing idle capacity would improve utilization, but the same shortage driving GPU prices up is exactly why no team will give capacity back. So the fleet sits at roughly 5%, billed by the hour, and the cycle tightens.That pressure — repeated across thousands of enterprises over the past two years — is [...]