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  • BusinessReuters

    Broadcom unveils new tech to speed up custom chips amid rising GenAI demand

    Palo Alto, California-based Broadcom is among the biggest beneficiaries of hefty demand for AI-supporting hardware, as so-called hyperscalers turn to its custom chips to diversify their supply chains beyond Nvidia's costly processors. The technology, called 3.5D XDSiP, will allow Broadcom's custom-chip customers to boost the amount of memory inside each packaged chip and speed up its performance by directly connecting critical components. There are five products in development that use the new

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  • BusinessFuturism

    Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

    Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in cold blood in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against his firm revealed just how draconian its claims-denying had become. Last November, the estates of two former UHC patients filed suit in Minnesota alleging that the insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and override claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors. The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, has a reported 90 percent error rate

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  • BusinessPopular Mechanics

    Geologists Might Have Stumbled Upon the Largest Gold Mine in the World

    $83 billion has just been sitting there underground this whole time.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from US prison after serving 25 years

    One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a federal prison in the U.S. and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show that Fabio Ochoa Vásquez was released Tuesday after completing 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence. Living in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution center for the cocaine cartel once headed by Pablo Escobar.

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  • USLA Times

    Massive lottery jackpot is set to expire. Mystery player was part of an incredibly rare draw

    Somewhere out there is an oblivious multimillionaire, and they bought their winning ticket as part of an incredibly rare Mega Millions draw.

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  • HealthTODAY

    Mom diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer at 38 recalls her 1st symptom: ‘I ignored it’

    Casandra Costley thought rectal bleeding, pain was because of a hemorrhoid. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Trying to educate others on social media.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Michigan court upholds light sentence for woman who killed dad in dispute over ride

    The Michigan Court of Appeals declined to overturn a light jail sentence for a young woman who killed her father by burning him with a dangerous powder when he couldn't drive her to a hair appointment before her 18th birthday party. Megan Imirowicz, now 21, was sentenced to a year in jail in 2023. Prosecutors objected.

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