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Pre-Order NVIDIA’s DGX Spark Today

Pre-Order NVIDIA’s DGX Spark Today

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Image credit: NVIDIA During the NVIDIA GTC conference in San Jose, CA, the GPU giant announced two small supercomputers: the DGX Spark and DGX Station. Both supercomputers use the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform and are targeted to developers, researchers, data scientists, and students training, running inference, and deploying large language models. “AI has transformed every layer of the computing stack. It stands to reason a new class of computers would emerge — designed for AI-native developers and to run AI-native applications,” said NVIDIA CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang in a press release. “With these new DGX personal AI computers, AI can span from cloud services to desktop and edge applications.” More must-read AI coverage DGX Spark has 784 GB of memory in a small package NVIDIA claimed the DGX Spark, previously known as Project Digits, is the world’s smallest supercomputer. The GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip inside includes a Blackwell GPU that can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second of AI computing. NVIDIA NVLink-C2C interconnect technology hooks a CPU and the GPU together at five times …

Coding bootcamp Lambda School — now BloomTech — is finally getting punished

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Why? Among other deceptive practices, the “Bloom Institute of Technology” didn’t call them loans. It advertised a way for students to get high-paying tech jobs “risk free” with “no loans” by paying 17 percent of their future income for five years — rather than the $20,000 sticker price of tuition. But those Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs) were definitely loans, the CFPB has decided, since Bloom was earning an average finance charge of $4,000 on each one, students could default and get sent to collections if they failed to make payments, and Bloom was turning around and selling those student debts to investors for $7,000 to $10,000 a pop. Bloom handed out more than 11,000 of these loans between 2017 and 2023, according to the CFPB consent order you can read at the bottom of this story. But it doesn’t offer them as of 2024, so the ban on future loans may be too little, too late. That said, the agency’s also ordering Bloom to cancel all loans for students who haven’t made a payment in …