Hi HN, I'm Ben from Synteq. We're a cloud provider who has - until now - mostly sold GPU clusters, VMs, and block storage. Yesterday we launched Apps and Functions, our first move into PaaS. In the spirit of having fun, we’re running a hackathon. Build anything with a UI on Apps (can use other providers, Synteq vps’, etc in the product) Prizes: - 1st: NVIDIA DGX Spark - 2nd: A flamethrower and half a cow (butchered, packed, delivered) - 3rd: AirPods Max, $250 in Chipotle, and a tin of Zyns We debated whether the prize list should make sense... It doesn’t. Details: Format: virtual, solo…

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After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs A prize for AI-written books has launched this week. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Continue reading...

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