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● 14/05/2024
“You got literal plastic milk crates, put a PC motherboard in there, and then zip-tied the GPUs to the edges so that you had air circulating. There was this spectacular folk engineering-slash-vernacular techno aesthetic that I love that you just don’t get any more.”
– Blockchain artist Rhea Myers, recalling the DIY Bitcoin and Dogecoin mining rigs she encountered in the 2013 Vancouver crypto scene. In dialogue with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, the artists share anecdotes from the early days of crypto art and NFTs.
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● 16/02/2024
“It’s more than Apple and Microsoft’s market caps combined. It’s more than than any company has raised for anything in the history of capitalism.”
– New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, contextualizing the reported $5-7 Trillion in funding OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking to boost global GPU production. The staggering amount “is a really good indicator of what people in positions of leadership in the AI industry think that is going to take to get AI to the next level,” says Roose.
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