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- September 7, 2026
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The Ministry of Social Development is in the spotlight again after it told thousands of people that food was ‘not an essential need’ when declining their applications for food grants, writes Henry Oliver in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. The Ministry of Social Development has […]
Hyperion Research Slices and Dices the HPC-AI Market
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- June 28, 2026
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The market for HPC and AI for science solutions grew a healthy 17% in 2025, Hyperion Research said during a briefing at 2026 ISC today in Hamburg, Germany. While the growth figures don’t match the scorching 23.4% growth figure recorded in 2024, they still are respectable from a historical perspective. “Prior to the AI boom, […]
Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale
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- August 11, 2026
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The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model, dots.mocr, hits 97.6 percent character accuracy at under two dollars per thousand pages. That’s good enough for AI training data, but not yet for scholarly transcriptions, the team says. The article Old […]