Two years ago, German startup Proxima Fusion emerged from stealth with big ambitions to make a little-known stellarator fusion machine a serious contender in the race for commercial fusion energy. Today, the Munich-based company secured Europe’s largest-ever private investment in fusion power — a €130mn Series A funding round from big-name investors including Balderton Capital, Cherry Ventur [...]
Leaked transcripts show memory-line staff offered up to 607% bonuses worth $477,000, while logic-chip employees get as little as 50%. The 45,000-person walkout, if it lands, would be the largest in semiconductor-industry history. Samsung Electronics will pay its chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 for the year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, as the company […]<br /> This stor [...]
A common view in current machine learning research is that machine learning itself can be used to improve the quality of AI dataset annotations – particularly image captions intended for use in vision-language models (VLMs). This line of thinking is driven by the high cost of human annotation, and the added burden of supervising annotator […]<br /> The post The ‘Download More Labels!†[...]