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A coalition of AI companies and former government officials launched RAISE US this week, a nonprofit aimed at retraining workers displaced by artificial intelligence. Founded by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, it carries an awkward irony — the same firms racing to automate jobs are now funding the safety net for people those jobs leave behind.
On the policy front, the Open Markets Institute is out with a pointed report arguing that when the AI investment bubble eventually deflates, taxpayers should not be left holding the bill. The paper calls for preemptive guardrails to prevent the kind of too-big-to-fail dynamics that turned the two thousand eight financial crisis into a public burden.
And for anyone trying to run large language models on consumer hardware, a developer built a practical filter at whichllmmodel that matches AI models to your specific graphics card memory — eight gigabytes, sixteen gigabytes, twenty-four gigabytes and beyond. It is a small tool solving a very real frustration, and a reminder that the most useful software often starts with someone just getting tired of answering the same question twice.
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