Reddit thread: US software-dev employment keeps growing despite LLM hype

The Cambridge Union posted its October 3 conversation with Perplexity CEO and co-founder Aravind Srinivas, recorded in its Debating Chamber. The video runs as a full session with the AI search company's chief executive.

At the Microsoft Frontier Tour in Paris, CEO Satya Nadella announced a new wave of Microsoft Sovereign Cloud capabilities for European organizations. Microsoft says the offering builds on its European digital commitments and gives organizations more control, choice and resilience.

In a masterclass interview, Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton argues superintelligent systems will develop survival sub-goals, warning the technology "might wipe us out" and could cause "all sorts of very bad things" in the near term even if it doesn't.

A Reddit user running Moss SFT int8 merged with a stripe-fix LoRA plus Qwen 9b int8 reports the model produces story sequences and comics within a single image, keeping the same character across panels in any style. They credit strong prompt adherence down to small details with plain sentence prompting.

Reddit user wildbling tested the popular H3 finetunes Singularity v1.3 and the newly updated V2, both in pruned Int8 variants, and posted an uncompressed clip comparison via Google Drive.