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☆ Meet Michal Kosinski, the Oppenheimer of AI's Scariest Future
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Eugenicists used photographs and IQ tests to determine which people were "inferior," and sterilized those who didn't measure up — which usually turned out to be anyone who wasn't white and rich. Before he worked with photographs, Kosinski was interested in Facebook. It's just picking up on the way gay people present themselves on dating sites — which, not surprisingly, is often very different from the way straight people present themselves to potential partners. Kosinski thinks AI's ability to make the kind of personality judgments he studies will only get better. That is the future Kosinski fears — even as he continues to tinker with the very models that prove it will come to pass.

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☆ Meet the Gen Zer Behind Friend, the Creepy New AI Necklace
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Zoë Bernard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Earlier this week, another product contending for the future of AI companionship made its debut: an eavesdropping necklace called Friend. AdvertisementSchiffmann's original vision for an AI hardware device was a pendant that would act as a more standard-fare AI assistant called Tab — he once described it as a "wearable mom." Of the many AI hardware devices that launched in recent months, such as Humane's AI pin, Meta's smart glasses, and Rabbit's AI-powered R1, Friend is the most personal contender. In fact, on the day Friend launched, a competing AI hardware founder named Nik Shevchenko released a diss track — as any self-respecting 23-year-old AI hardware founder would do — insinuating that Schiffmann stole his idea. (It would not be the first time that Shevchenko built an open source competitor that closely resembled another AI hardware device.

Persons: Siri, Friend, Avi Schiffmann, Schiffmann, Elon Musk, Caffeinated Capital's Raymond Tonsing, Aravind Srinivas, Austin Rief, hasn't, Scarlett Johansson, transfixing Joaquin Phoenix's, —, Anthony Fauci, Camus, it's, Nik Shevchenko, Shevchenko, Taylor Organizations: Harvard, Morning Locations: Tokyo, Ukraine

How the election is dividing techThe tech world has long been divided by rivalries: Macs versus PCs, open source versus closed source. It’s a reminder, as DealBook has noted, that Silicon Valley’s libertarian wing is feeling more emboldened to flex its money and influence to buck what has become a traditionally Democratic consensus. Who’s who: Some of the most vocal Democratic donors among the tech elite are Hoffman; Vinod Khosla, the venture capitalist; Aaron Levie, the C.E.O. On the Republican side are a camp of libertarians that includes Musk and the investors Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Then there are those staying neutral, including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, who are ostensibly trying to avoid antagonizing whoever wins in November.

Persons: Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Ryan Mac, Erin Griffith, Mike Isaac, DealBook, Who’s, Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Aaron Levie, Roger McNamee, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Organizations: Republican

☆ Sam Altman, under fire from Elon Musk, has now offered his own vision of open-source AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a vision for open-source AI, and it's not far from what the company's former cofounder, Elon Musk, has been asking for. But what's notable in Altman's proposal was how he highlighted the role open-source AI models could have in strengthening America's hold on the field. AdvertisementTo be sure, Musk also has some reservations about how open AI models should be. Advertisement"I believe that open source is necessary for a positive AI future," Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post on the same day. "There is an ongoing debate about the safety of open source AI models, and my view is that open source AI will be safer than the alternatives.

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☆ Tech's splurge on AI chips has companies in 'arms race' that's forcing more spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been assembling a large stockpile of Nvidia chips, spending billions of dollars so his company can develop and train advanced artificial intelligence models. But even he says the AI hype may be driving too much investment. Meta debuted its latest Llama AI model on Tuesday. The model, dubbed Llama 3.1, comes in three different versions, with one variant being the biggest and most capable AI model from Meta to date.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Emily Chang, He's, Sundar Pichai, Pichai Organizations: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Tesla Locations: Menlo Park , California

☆ Everybody seems to love Zuck right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Zuckerberg won praise from CEOs for open-sourcing Meta's AI model, Llama 3.1. Shopify's CEO called the model an "incredible gift," and even Elon Musk said he "does deserve credit." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIf there were a Big Tech CEO popularity contest, Zuck might well be taking the crown right now. Even Elon Musk gave Zuck a rare nod of approval.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, —, Zuck Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Business

☆ Elon Musk has finally found something that he can agree with Mark Zuckerberg on
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg nearly got into a cage fight after Meta tried to dethrone X with Threads. Musk paid Zuckerberg a rare compliment after Meta released its latest AI model on Tuesday. AdvertisementElon Musk has long been at loggerheads with Mark Zuckerberg. But there is at least one subject on which Musk can see eye to eye with Zuckerberg. On Tuesday, Musk offered a rare compliment to Zuckerberg after Meta released its latest AI model, Llama 3.1.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Musk, Zuckerberg, — Organizations: Meta, Service, Zuckerberg, OpenAI's, Business

Meta on Tuesday announced the latest version of its Llama artificial intelligence model. Nvidia is a key Meta partner and provides the social networking giant with the computing chips called GPUs to help train its AI models, including the latest version of Llama. For example, Meta said that Llama model announced on Tuesday was trained on 16,000 of Nvidia's H100 graphics processors. But open-source models can cost hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to create. There aren't many companies that are financially able to develop and release open-source models with similar amounts of investment.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Ash Jhaveri, We're, Jhaveri, WhatsApp Organizations: Meta, Google, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: Tokyo, Dell, U.S

☆ Mark Zuckerberg Stumps for ‘Open Source’ A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That debate — closed versus open source — has become inflamed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence and worries that A.I. In an open letter on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, reinforced what some said was a risky stance taken by his company: that open source development of artificial intelligence would allow technologists to learn how powerful A.I. models are created and use that knowledge to build their own A.I. Mr. Zuckerberg said it was unrealistic to think that a handful of companies could keep their A.I. technology secret, particularly when Silicon Valley has for years been a target for espionage by countries such as China.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: Meta Locations: China

☆ Russia pulled military aircraft from service because of poor quality parts: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia grounded five Il-76MD-90A aircraft due to poor-quality parts. The Russian air force's fleet of Il-76MD-90A aircraft has suffered significant attrition since 2022. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRussia was forced to take five military aircraft out of service due to key parts being swapped out for poor-quality ones, according to local media reports. The issue affects the landing gear of Russia's Il-76MD-90A, a large modernized strategic aircraft designed for ferrying troops and military equipment.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Russia, Moscow

☆ Britain's Labour faces an uphill battle as it looks to rein in AI's key players
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

By taking aim at the most powerful AI models, Labour would impose tighter restrictions on companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft , Google , Amazon , and AI startups including Anthropic, Cohere and Mistral. Matthew Houlihan, senior director of government affairs at Cisco, said any AI rules would need to be "centered on a thoughtful, risk-based approach." Even so, a U.K. AI law would be a step above the U.S., which currently doesn't have federal AI legislation of any kind. Sirion's Liu said one thing he's hoping the government doesn't do, is restrict open-source AI models. Herman Narula, CEO of metaverse venture builder Improbable, agreed that restricting open-source AI innovation would be a bad idea.

Persons: Keir Starmer's, King Charles III, doesn't, Starmer's, Matt Calkins, Appian, Lewis Liu, Liu, Rishi Sunak, Peter Kyle, Kyle, Zahra Bahrololoumi, Matthew Houlihan, Bill, Chris Holmes, Holmes, Matthew Holman, Cripps, Holman, Sirion's Liu, Herman Narula, Narula Organizations: Future Publishing, Labour, European Union, Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Conservative, BBC, AI Safety Institute, Cisco, Authority, EU, AI Safety, Tech, London Tech Week Locations: Jiangsu province, China, Ireland, Salesforce, U.S

☆ Many supposedly 'neutral' Russian Olympic athletes have cheered on the invasion of Ukraine, rights group says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAt least two-thirds of the Russian athletes set to participate in the Olympic Games starting next week in Paris are openly defying neutrality rules over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a human rights group claims. However, athletes from the countries can still compete as "individual neutral athletes," or AINs, if they meet certain conditions. As of July 13, 15 Russian athletes had accepted invitations to participate as AINs. Sky NewsThe person who made the post — Russian former gymnast Alexey Nemov — had added commentary railing against Kuliak's critics. AdvertisementThe IOC rules state that athletes can't be "contracted to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security agencies."

Persons: —, Wayne Jordash, Ukraine's, Elena Vesnina, Vesnina, Vladimir Solovyov, Alexander Safonov, Ivan Kuliak, Alexey Nemov — Organizations: Service, Olympic Games, Business, International Olympic Committee, IOC, UN, Olympic, Getty, Global, Sky, Sports Society, Dynamo, —, Central Sports Club, Army Locations: Paris, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, AIN, Anadolu, Russian, Ukrainian, Doha, Qatar, Belarusian

☆ AMD's AI head explains how it's tackling Nvidia's 'lock-in' and the AI chip shortage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

An AMD executive said the firm embraces open source to tackle GPU shortages and challenge Nvidia. Nvidia controls over 70% of the AI chip market, leveraging its closed CUDA software. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAn AMD executive said his company is taking an open-source approach as it challenges Nvidia in the chip wars.

Persons: —, Ramine Roane Organizations: AMD, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Service, Momentum, Mizuho Securities, Google, Business Locations: San Jose , California

☆ AI pioneer Illia Polosukhin, one of Google's 'Transformer 8,' wants to democratize artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Before Illia Polosukhin left Google in 2017, he had a brainstorming lunch and then returned to his desk to build what may have been the very first transformer, the neural network architecture that makes generative artificial intelligence possible. Seven of the "Transformer 8" joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at GTC, Nvidia's annual developer conference in San Jose on March 20, 2024. From left to right: Lukasz Kaiser, Noam Shazeer, Aidan Gomez, Jensen Huang, Llion Jones, Jakob Uszkoreit, Ashish Vaswani and Illia Polosukhin. All eight of the authors have now left Google, although Polosukhin was the first to depart. Watch the video to hear the full conversation between CNBC's Katie tarasov and and Illia Polosukhin.

Persons: Polosukhin, Jensen Huang, Illia Polosukhin, Lukasz Kaiser, Noam Shazeer, Aidan Gomez, Llion Jones, Jakob Uszkoreit, Ashish Vaswani, OpenAI, Alexander Skidanov, CNBC's Katie tarasov, Illia Organizations: Nvidia, Google, CNBC Locations: San Jose

☆ Elon Musk sure wants people to know he was the one to name OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Billionaire Elon Musk spoke to WPP CEO Mark Read in an interview at Cannes Lions on Wednesday. On the topic of the future of AI, Musk reminded the audience he cofounded OpenAI as a nonprofit. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk reminded the audience at Cannes Lions on Wednesday that he was the person to name OpenAI as he made a jab at the direction the company has taken since then. Musk took to the festival stage as a guest speaker in an interview with WPP CEO Mark Read, where he discussed technical innovation.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Read, OpenAI, —, Musk, Read Organizations: WPP, Cannes Lions, Service, Business

☆ Ukraine's strikes on Crimean air defenses could end its role as a Russian military staging ground: experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewUkraine's sustained attacks against Russia's air defenses could make occupied Crimea untenable as a military staging ground, war analysts said. Ukraine has repeatedly hit Russia's air defenses in Crimea over the last few months, with attacks intensifying this week. AdvertisementAccording to reports, one Russian S-400 "Triumf" and two S-300 air-defense missile systems were targeted overnight on Sunday into Monday, with suggestions that Ukraine used US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS. AdvertisementForbes reached a similar conclusion on Wednesday, saying Russia's S-400 missile systems can't defend nearby Russian troops or even themselves. AdvertisementBut despite Ukraine's recent successes, its campaign of long-range air strikes won't be the silver bullet that ends Russia's occupation of Crimea, military experts told BI.

Persons: —, Ukraine's, Forbes, Russia's, Kyrylo Budanov, Keir Giles, Giles, they're, Matthew Savill, James Black, Putin Organizations: Service, Institute for, Business, Army Tactical Missile Systems, Staff of, Armed Forces, Chatham House's, Eurasia Programme, Royal United Services Institute, RAND Europe, Kremlin Locations: Crimea, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Chatham House's Russia, Eurasia, Ukrainian

☆ Amazon has a secret workaround to scrape Microsoft's GitHub for AI model training data, leaked memo shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Microsoft is likely to be unhappy when it discovers that its arch rival Amazon is leaning hard on GitHub for AI training data. "Our LLMs are trained on data from a variety of sources, including licensed and proprietary data, open-source datasets, and publicly available data where appropriate. It also said Amazon employees should create a "classic personal token," not a "fine-grained personal token," when signing up. Tech companies, hungry for even more training data, are also granting themselves new permissions to use a lot more of consumers' information. Though Amazon's legal team has approved the GitHub data scraping workaround, the move could put Amazon in a tricky position.

Persons: —, Rohit Prasad NurPhoto, Rohit Prasad, Amazon, Amazon's, Andy Jassy, Prasad, Matthew Butterick, Joseph Saveri, Joseph Saveri's, Butterick, Copilot Organizations: Service, Business, General Intelligence Group, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, GitHub, News Corp, Tech, Alexa Locations: GitHub

☆ Middle East Crisis U.N. Commission Accuses Both Israel and Palestinian Groups of War Crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Nick Cumming-Bruce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

A United Nations commission investigating the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza has accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the panel said that Israel’s conduct of the war included crimes against humanity. The U.N. report said that Palestinian armed groups killed and tortured people during the assaults that day. But Israel, during its monthslong campaign in Gaza to oust Hamas, has also committed war crimes, the commission said, like the use of starvation as a weapon of war through a total siege of Gaza. The commission said it had identified the people most responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity, including senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups and senior members of Israel’s political and military leadership, including members of its war cabinet. The commission said it would continue its investigations focusing on those with individual criminal responsibility and command or superior responsibility.

Persons: —, Israel, Sergey Ponomarev, Abed Khaled, repugnantly ”, Chris Sidoti, Miloon Organizations: United Nations, Navi Pillay, United, International Court of Justice, The New York Times, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Reuters, West Bank Locations: Israel, Gaza, United Nations, Al, Aqsa, Deir Al, Geneva, Turkey, Egypt

Meta 's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has spent much of the past week sparring with Elon Musk over the Tesla CEO's treatment of scientists and news organizations, and for spreading false conspiracies on social media. The spat began days earlier, on May 27, after Musk took to X to encourage people to apply for roles at his AI startup, xAI. Musk, who has previously called for the prosecution of Fauci, posted on X, "Why do Dems love Fauci so much." Musk said in a post on X Monday that LeCun has been "out of touch with AI for a long time." "I'm sure the scientists who hide behind this collective name are super happy about that," LeCun said on X.

Persons: Yann LeCun, Elon Musk, LeCun, Musk, Anthony Fauci, Fauci, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Investor Mark Cuban, Dustin Moskovitz, Musk's, Tesla, hasn't, He's Organizations: Elon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Investor, Diversity, Equity, LeCun, Medical Internet Research, Trump Locations: xAI

☆ Meta's AI chief slams Elon Musk for spreading 'crazy conspiracy theories' amid escalating feud
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's feud with Meta AI chief Yann LeCun is escalating. In a recent post, LeCun slammed Musk for his "dangerous political opinions." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk 's public feud with Meta's AI chief and award-winning scientist, Yann LeCun, is escalating. While he praised Musk's Tesla cars, SpaceX satellite communication system, and position on open source AI, he also slammed the billionaire for what he called "dangerous" public positions.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Yann LeCun, LeCun, Musk, —, Elon Musk, Musk's Tesla Organizations: Meta, Service, SpaceX, Business

☆ With Trump, Silicon Valley elites see AI regulation as they see fit
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

While Musk hasn't formally endorsed Trump, one reason Silicon Valley heavy-hitters could be gravitating toward a convicted former president is a desire to see less regulation on tech development in America. AdvertisementCuban, a vocal opponent of Trump who has expressed his support for Joe Biden, told Business Insider in an email that he views the support from Silicon Valley and Wall Street billionaires for Trump as "self-serving." "So unless it's very light touch, which is unlikely at this point, the more influence they have over Ai regulation the better the opportunity to advantage themselves." "It's still very early to be imposing regulation," Sacks said. That's not to say every Silicon Valley player investing in AI and Trump hopes to see an unrestrained, Wild West of artificial intelligence development.

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☆ What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Few debates have raged longer and more contentiously in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development? Source code makes up the underlying building blocks of the apps you use. Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer. Open-source software is any such computer code that can be freely distributed, copied or altered to a developer’s own ends. The nonprofit Open Source Initiative, an industry organization, sets other stipulations and standards for what software is considered open source, but it is largely a matter of the code’s being free and open for anyone to use and improve.

Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Initiative

☆ LLMs, GPUs, and hallucinations — what you need to know about AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Aaron Mok | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Here's a list of the people, companies, and terms you need to know to talk about AI, in alphabetical order. GPU: A computer chip, short for graphic processing unit, that companies use to train and deploy their AI models. Nvidia's GPUs are used by Microsoft and Meta to run their AI models. Multimodal: The ability for AI models to process text, images, and audio to generate an output. As a profession, prompt engineers are experts in fine tuning AI models on the backend to improve outputs.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI's, Dario Amodei, Claude, Demis, Hassabis, Jensen Huang, Satya, Mustafa Suleyman, OpenAI, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman, Peter Thiel, Bard, James Webb, empiricists Organizations: Service, Business, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Bing, Meta, James Webb Space Telescope Locations: OpenAI, Anthropic

☆ How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, announced last year that his company would release an artificial intelligence system, Jeffrey Emanuel had reservations. Mr. Emanuel, a part-time hacker and full-time A.I. When Mr. Zuckerberg introduced Meta’s A.I. system, Mr. Zuckerberg made the code “open source” so that it could be freely copied, modified and reused by anyone. He said he appreciated that Meta’s A.I.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Emanuel, Emanuel, Zuckerberg, Meta’s Organizations: Meta, Google, Microsoft

☆ Inside Amazon's struggle to crack Nvidia's AI-chip dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

"I'm not aware of anyone using AWS chips in any sort of large volumes," Rasgon told Business Insider, referring to Amazon's AI chips. This time, the idea is to avoid paying for expensive Nvidia GPUs, while still providing cloud customers with powerful AI services. An obvious response to this would be to have cloud customers use Amazon's AI chips instead. However, some of the largest AWS customers have not been willing to use these homegrown alternatives, the documents said. For example, AWS's AI chips still have "compatibility gaps" in certain open-source frameworks, making Nvidia GPUs a more popular option.

Persons: —, Stacy Rasgon, Bernstein, I'm, Rasgon, Adam Selipsky, Jensen Huang, Andy Jassy, Inferentia, Trainium, Omdia, Snowflake's, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Eóin Noonan, CUDA, Ramaswamy, James Hamilton, Jassy, Gartner, Huang Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Google, Business, Services, Nvidia, Intel, Amazon, NVIDIA CUDA, Netflix, Neuron, AWS, NVIDIA, Amazon VP, James Hamilton Amazon, BI Locations: CUDA, Toronto

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