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OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up | TechCrunch
OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company. TypeSafe’s Jev model created a category for deep learning models that act as super classifiers:
AWS Neuron 2.33 adds native PyTorch support, Neuron Observer, and other new features – AWS
AWS Neuron 2.33 is now available, introducing TorchNeuron, the native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium, in public beta. You can run models written with the standard PyTorch APIs on Amazon EC2 Trn2 and Trn3 instances, in eager mode or with torch.compile. This release also introduces Neuron Observer in public beta, which detects Trainium health issues
Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan | Amazon Web Services
Using torchtitan on AWS Trainium means using it the way you always have. TorchNeuron registers Trainium as a native PyTorch device, which lets torchtitan use it through standard PyTorch interfaces. You can use these configurations to pre-train from random initialization or fine-tune published weights. You can also customize the model implementation and kernels for your
AI’s role in learning, research, and career exploration—using tools thoughtfully, ethically | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Heather Mattie presents at AI series. Photo courtesy Jennifer Betancourt Harvard Chan School’s four-part pilot series explored how to use artificial intelligence ethically while keeping critical thinking and mastery of knowledge front and center. More than 100 members of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community came together this fall to explore how
The future of privacy in the AI age, with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker’s path to tech leadership was nontraditional. She was not focused on computers as a kid, and in college, she studied English and not computer science. She never imagined architecting the future through technologies inspired by her favorite science fiction novels, but in 2006, she took a temp job at Google that eventually led
IIE Announces 2026/27 Centennial Fellowship Cohort to Advance Responsible AI from Framework to Deployment | IIE
Five Fulbright Alumni Selected To Advance Solutions That Promote Responsible, Ethical, And Economically Sustainable Artificial Intelligence NEW YORK, October 21, 2026 — The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026/27 IIE Centennial Fellowship, which recognizes Fulbright alumni whose work is advancing the responsible development and use of super
German AI-powered language translation powerhouse goes VAST
DeepL is using VAST Data’s storage and AI OS to help it develop new language translation offerings, saying it expects to get roughly three times the storage capacity from its existing hardware. The company is a neural machine translation (NMT) service headquartered in Cologne and founded in 2009 as Linguee, an online dictionary, by CEO
The Ability to ‘Doubt’ Could Make Artificial Intelligence More Reliable
20.10.2026 Making a good decision is not enough: it is also important to assess how certain that decision is. A research group led by Gergő Orbán at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, working with Argentinian partners, has developed a method that improves how deep-learning systems represent uncertainty. The findings could make AI-based image








