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AWS debuts Graviton-powered Redshift RG instances to cut analytics costs

AWS has released new Graviton-powered RG instances for its Amazon Redshift data warehouse service aimed at helping enterprises reduce both rising analytics costs and the operational complexity of modern lakehouse architectures. At the core of the new instances is an integrated data lake query engine that AWS says can run SQL analytics across both Redshift…

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First look: Lemonade serves up local AI with limitations

Lemonade, created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with…

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AI is ready to take over Python programming, but not much else

Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, written by Microsoft researchers  Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a…

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