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This $40M AI Gamble Could Change How Companies Use LLMs | Ulysses Maclaren & Levi Jackson 0 (0)

Thomson Reuters spent $40 million building its own AI model, with a single training session costing $450,000. So why make such a huge investment when new AI models are leapfrogging each other every few weeks? Ulysses & Levi explore the classic build versus rent question for AI. Once a model reaches the level of capability needed for a specific use case, such as legal, risk and intelligence work, constantly chasing the latest benchmark may no longer provide enough additional value. The bigger advantage can be proprietary data. Companies with unique datasets can fine-tune capable open source models around information their [See More…]

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BREAKING: Trump slaps Canada with 50% tariff over alleged trade ‘discrimination’ 0 (0)

We are now learning this Monday that the Trump administration is planning to impose a 50% tariff on certain Canadian imports. This comes as members of the Trump admin officials blame “discrimination” against American businesses as the reason behind the decision. “I find that it is necessary and appropriate and in the public interest to impose an additional ad valorem duty of 50 percent on certain products of Canada,” the order said, according to Fox Business. “The United States, U.S. businesses and workers, and U.S. commerce suffer from Canada’s discriminatory, unequal, and unreasonable tariff scheme.” Subscribe to LiveNOW from FOX! [See More…]