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The Vatican announced this morning that Pope Leo the Fourteenth underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his lung. The news landed with particular weight given that his older brother Louis Prevost, living in Florida, is separately battling multiple myeloma — a fact confirmed by Louis's wife to CBS News just today.
On the AI front, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman used his time at TechCrunch Disrupt to push back against what he called an industry obsession with doomsday scenarios. His argument is straightforward: when tech leaders spend their public moments warning about existential risk, the genuine, near-term benefits of artificial intelligence get buried under the noise.
And speaking of AI hardware, the Dell Pro Max eighteen Plus is holding onto its title as the fastest AI laptop available, clocking in at one hundred eighty-five point one tokens per second on local model benchmarks. But that crown may not last long. Nvidia's newly launched RTX Spark mobile workstations are entering the field, and analysts expect a reshuffling of the rankings within days.
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