Een man reed met een auto het centrale plein in de stad op en begon daar op „willekeurige mensen” te schieten, meldt de politie.
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KRAKAU (ANP/RTR) - Door een schietpartij in het centrum van Krakau zijn zeker drie doden en tien gewonden gevallen, meldt de Poolse zender TVN24.
De schietpartij vond plaats nabij het centrale stadsplein van de stad in het zuiden van Polen. De Poolse premier Donald Tusk sprak op X van een "tragische schietpartij" en zei dat de politie de achtergrond van de omstandigheden rond het incident onderzoekt.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Alle 218 demonstranten die vrijdag zijn aangehouden bij de bouwplaats van een datacentrum van Microsoft in Amsterdam zijn weer vrij. Een van hen heeft de nacht in een politiecel doorgebracht en mocht in de loop van de dag naar huis, zegt een politiewoordvoerder zaterdag.
Bij de demonstratie aan de Plimsollweg waren twee actiegroepen betrokken: Geef Tegengas en Fossielvrij. Onderweg naar de aangewezen demonstratielocatie werd een groep demonstranten al staande gehouden, omdat ze gereedschappen bij zich hadden om toegang tot het terrein te krijgen.
De demonstranten drongen volgens de politie met geweld het bouwterrein op. Daar zouden diverse vernielingen zijn gepleegd. Ook hadden aangehouden demonstranten spullen bij zich die vermoedelijk van de bouwplaats zijn gestolen.
Het datacentrum doet aangifte van huisvredebreuk, vernieling en inbraak.
MOSKOU (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Rusland heeft opnieuw Russische onderdelen van een internationaal bedrijf onder tijdelijk beheer van een Russische entiteit gezet. Het gaat om bezittingen van Japan Tobacco in het land. De fabrikant van sigaretten van Winston en Camel is daarmee de laatste in een reeks internationale bedrijven die te maken krijgen met soortgelijke acties vanuit Rusland, waardoor eerder ook bezittingen van bijvoorbeeld het Zwitserse voedingsmiddelenconcern Nestlé en de Franse supermarktketen Auchan werden getroffen.
De Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft nog drie extra lokale onderdelen van Japan Tobacco International overgedragen aan het tijdelijk beheer door een Russisch bedrijf. Donderdag droeg Poetin de belangrijkste productiebezittingen van JTI al over aan datzelfde bedrijf, waaronder sigarettenfabrieken in Sint-Petersburg en tabaksverwerkingsfaciliteiten in de regio's Lipetsk en Leningrad.
De sigarettenfabrikant is sinds 1999 actief in Rusland en is marktleider als het gaat om verkochte volumes, volgens zijn website. Het bedrijf, met zijn internationale hoofdkantoor in het Zwitserse Genève, heeft 4000 werknemers in Rusland. Het nieuws over de inbeslagnames zorgde al voor een forse daling van de beurskoers van JTI.
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Poetin vaardigde in 2023 een decreet uit dat het mogelijk maakt bedrijfsonderdelen uit 'onvriendelijke landen' onder beheer te plaatsen. Het gaat om landen die Oekraïne steunen sinds de grootschalige invasie van dat land door Rusland.
In september plaatste Poetin Russische onderdelen van Nestlé en Auchan onder tijdelijk beheer. Ook het Nederlandse verfconcern AkzoNobel overkwam dat dit jaar. Eerder deden de Russen dit ook al bij bijvoorbeeld Danone en Carlsberg.
The last cybertruck will be made next year. It started with questionable design choices, including the obvious question of why it looks like that.
Quality control issues followed. But let's remember the good times. There was the time Musk broke its window on stage (which didn't always turn out well). There was wade mode. There was the time Europe banned it because it can't be made safe for pedestrians. It has been compared to the car Homer Simpson designed, but of course the Cybertruck was designed by a genius.
Quality control issues followed. But let's remember the good times. There was the time Musk broke its window on stage (which didn't always turn out well). There was wade mode. There was the time Europe banned it because it can't be made safe for pedestrians. It has been compared to the car Homer Simpson designed, but of course the Cybertruck was designed by a genius.
Khadija Shaw hits hat-trick in City’s 5-0 rout of West Ham
Chelsea held 1-1 by Everton after Lucy Bronze own goal
An own goal by defender Lucy Bronze against Everton cost Chelsea top spot in the Women’s Super League as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home, allowing Manchester City to leapfrog them with a 5-0 drubbing of West Ham.
Bronze headed the ball back across the goal to tee up Sandy Baltimore to score from close range in the 28th minute, but five minutes later her attempted clearance rolled into her own net to put Everton level. The visitors held on for a draw as Chelsea dropped points for the first time since the opening day of the season.
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Speaking to reporters after unveiling his new defence spokesperson this week, Nigel Farage’s jovial and upbeat mood suddenly switched. Why, he was asked, was a Reform UK councillor who was arrested in January over multiple alleged sexual offences still in his role nearly 10 months later?
“I have no idea,” Farage replied icily. “I was told yesterday, and I wasn’t very happy.”
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Fireworks AI is fine with helping companies run AI models in their own datacenters, though VP Rob Ferguson argues against doing so. Ferguson told The Register in an interview that while Fireworks AI, a managed inference provider, supports on-prem AI, "we're trying to push people more and more away from it because frankly, it's just the economics." The GPU hardware is just so expensive that if you can't keep it fully utilized, it's a waste of money, he contends. Ten thousand GPUs, he said, represent a billion dollars of capital. "You don't want those things to be sitting idle," he said. For companies with particularly sensitive workloads, Ferguson said, Fireworks is happy to work something out – it offers a service called Sovereign for just that purpose and it has partners like Microsoft that can help. But most inference work probably doesn't need that level of protection, he said. "The state of the art for everyone is to have a portfolio of models," he explained. "In fact, I think most people don't know that the best model in the world's not Astra. The best model in the world's not Fable. The best model is literally a portfolio and we can prove it. You are always better routing between a few models than to do one singular model." That's what Fireworks does through Nexus and its API, alongside competitors like Together AI, Baseten, and DeepInfra. As a managed inference platform, Fireworks AI routes inference tasks to whichever model, frontier model subscription, or API is best suited to handle them. But the company is not just doing naive routing like an AI gateway. It's evaluating tasks as they come in and directing them to the optimal model. "We build custom routers," Ferguson explained. "Our auto model is continuously updating so that we actually go through and we grade the difficulty of the task and we see if there're affinities that the models have, like Kimi is slightly better at JavaScript than Python, things like this." The company's competitive edge, he contends, is its crack engineering team, which follows from its founders' work on PyTorch, a widely used open source machine learning library. "We're performance experts both on the training and inference side," he explained. "People I think don't understand how important, for example, numerics is. So when you use a model, it's always called a mixture of experts – an expert is a different machine. "And so you have all these different machines. It actually matters when you're training that you go back to precisely the right machine, because if you don't, the other machine will still answer the question, but it'll answer in a slightly different way. So we have to know how to build the topology to write back the data to the right space. We have to understand floating point precision [to handle very small values]. We have to be able to do all this where we're routing through a complex fabric through potentially more than one provider depending on what everything is. And so we're really systems experts." Hyperscalers, he argues, will give you a GPU but then it's your responsibility to put it to use. Fireworks' advantage involves being able to maximize utilization at scale while maintaining model precision and speed. Ferguson said AI keeps coming back to economics. "People are just trying to figure out more and more things to use AI for and [to answer questions like] just how much more can I send to cached models, how much more can I send to open models, when do I need this specialization?" he said. "So we're constantly working with customers to help them come up with their own evaluation criteria." One reason for this, Ferguson explained, is that frontier model companies are not transparent about their caching rates. He said Fireworks was working with a data science company and was caching about 90 percent of the tasks. "We looked at [Anthropic's] Opus and it was caching 30 percent of the time," he said. "It was doing AI rework constantly. And with AI, rework is by far your biggest cost. If it's not hitting a cache, then your costs are absolutely insane. And so the token cost is not the real cost. It's the cost per task. And they're hiding that from you. And so we always tell our customers to be tracking cost per task, because that's the real number." Another factor that companies should consider in their cost calculations, Ferguson suggested, is the value of their data and whether they're giving that data away for training. "I think people grossly underestimate the value of their data," he said. Fireworks AI has a zero data-retention policy, "but a lot of times," Ferguson said, "these other companies [do] not, and you should be getting paid for your data. Nobody really knew at the beginning of this current era that these models are memorizers. But now there's plenty of evidence that these models are. So if they're going to be using your data, then you should be getting value for it." But it's not just about cost. Speed, said Ferguson, is underappreciated. "Speed is the thing that people often don't know they can ask for," he said. "It's such a game changer for me and how I work with AI is so different when the responses come back as fast as I ask them." What's the advantage of model ensembling, as the company refers to its model routing activities? A bill that's at least 50 percent smaller, Ferguson claims. "So we say six to eight times cheaper," he said. "The reality is that because a lot of folks have a preference in their tooling, we kinda guarantee that in the case where you're still using a combo of closed and open models, we can always guarantee that your bill will drop by half right away. Like we're sure about that. And then the question is can we just get you to use more stuff?" ®
