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21-05-2025
- Politics
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At least five killed in southwest Pakistan school bus blast
At least five people have been killed in a blast targeting a school bus in the Khuzdar district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, the military said. Yasir Iqbal Dashti, a government official in Khuzdar, said at least 38 people were wounded in the attack on Wednesday. 'The school bus belonged to Army Public School as it was picking children in the morning when it was attacked by the suicide bomber,' he told Al Jazeera. Pakistan's military, in a statement, condemned the violence and accused 'Indian terror proxies' of involvement in the attack. It did not share evidence to support the claim. There was no immediate comment from New Delhi. At least three children and two adults were killed in the attack, the army said in a statement. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack near Khuzdar's Zero Point area and expressed 'deep sorrow and grief' over those killed. 'The enemy attacked innocent children with barbarity. The attack on the school bus is a heinous conspiracy of the enemy to create instability in the country,' he said in a statement. Authorities said that the death toll could increase due to the severity of the explosion. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Balochistan province, which is rich in minerals and natural resources, has been home to a decades-long conflict between the government and ethnic Baloch separatists, who demand secession from Pakistan. Wednesday's attack came days after a car bombing killed four people near a market in Qillah Abdullah, also in Balochistan. Many attacks in the province are claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which Pakistan says enjoyed the backing of neighbouring India – a claim that New Delhi denies. In one of the deadliest such attacks, BLA fighters killed 33 people, mostly soldiers, during an assault on a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Balochistan in March. Earlier this week, the BLA promised more attacks on the 'Pakistani army and its collaborators' and said its goal is to 'lay the foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and independent Balochistan'. Armed groups are also active in Balochistan and though it is unusual for separatists to target schoolchildren in the province, such attacks have been carried out in the restive northwest and elsewhere in the country in recent years. Most schools and colleges in Pakistan are operated by the government or the private sector, though the military also runs a significant number of institutions for children of both civilians and of serving or retired army personnel. In December 2014, armed group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) targeted APS in Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in which more than 140 children were killed.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
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ZeroPoint Technologies Unveils Groundbreaking Compression Solution to Increase Foundational Model Addressable Memory by 50%
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroPoint Technologies AB today announced a breakthrough hardware-accelerated memory optimization product that enables the nearly instantaneous compression and decompression of deployed foundational models, including the leading large language models (LLMs). The new product, AI-MX, will be delivered to initial customers and partners in the second half of 2025 and will enable enterprise and hyperscale datacenters to realize a 1.5 times increase in addressable memory, memory bandwidth, and tokens served per second for applications that rely on large foundational models. The full technical specifications of AI-MX are available here. "Foundational models are stretching the limits of even the most sophisticated datacenter infrastructures. Demand for memory capacity, power, and bandwidth continues to expand quarter-upon-quarter," said Klas Moreau, CEO of ZeroPoint Technologies. "With today's announcement, we introduce a first-of-its-kind memory optimization solution that has the potential to save companies billions of dollars per year related to building and operating large-scale datacenters for AI applications." "Futurum Intelligence currently predicts the total AI software and tools market to reach a value of $440B by 2029 and Signal65 believes that ZeroPoint is positioned to address a key challenge within this fast-growing market with AI-MX," said Mitch Lewis, Performance Analyst at Signal65. "Signal65 believes that AI-MX is currently a unique offering and that with ongoing development and alignment with leading technology partners, there is strong growth opportunity for both ZeroPoint and AI-MX." ZeroPoint's proprietary hardware-accelerated compression, compaction, and memory management technologies operate at low nanosecond latencies, enabling them to work more than 1000 times faster than more traditional compression algorithms. For foundational model workloads, AI-MX enables enterprise and hyperscale datacenters to increase the addressable capacity and bandwidth of their existing memory by 1.5 times, while simultaneously gaining a significant increase in performance per watt. Critically, the new AI-MX product works across a broad variety of memory types, including HBM, LPDDR, GDDR and DDR – ensuring that the memory optimization benefits apply to nearly every possible AI acceleration use case. A summary of the benefits provided by the initial version of AI-MX include: Expands effective memory capacity by up to 50% This allows end-users to store AI model data more efficiently. For example, enabling 150GB of model data to fit within 100GB of HBM capacity. Enhances AI accelerator capacity An AI accelerator with 4 HBM stacks and AI-MX can operate as if it has the capacity of 6 HBM stacks. Improves effective memory bandwidth Achieve a similar 1.5 times improvement in bandwidth efficiency by transferring more model data per transaction. The above benefits are specifically associated with the initial implementation of the AI-MX product. ZeroPoint Technologies aims to further exceed the 1.5 times increases to capacity and performance in subsequent generations of the AI-MX product. Given the exponentially increasing memory demands of today's applications, partially driven by the explosive growth of generative AI, ZeroPoint addresses the critical need of today's hyperscale and enterprise data center operators to get the most performance and capacity possible from increasingly expensive and power-hungry memory. For more general use cases (those not related to foundational models) ZeroPoint's solutions are proven to increase general memory capacity by 2-4x while also delivering up to 50% more performance per watt. In combination, these two effects can reduce the total cost of ownership of hyperscale data center servers by up to 25%. ZeroPoint offers memory optimization solutions across the entire memory hierarchy - all the way from cache to storage. ZeroPoint's technology is agnostic to data load, processor type, architectures, memory technologies and processing node, and the company's IP has already been proven on a TSMC 5nm node. About ZeroPoint Technologies AB ZeroPoint Technologies is the leading provider of hardware-accelerated memory optimization solutions for a variety of use cases, ranging from enterprise and hyperscale datacenter implementations to consumer devices. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, ZeroPoint has developed an extensive portfolio of intellectual property. The company was founded by Professor Per Stenström and Dr. Angelos Arelakis, with the vision to deliver the most efficient memory compression available, across the memory hierarchy, in real-time, based on state-of-the-art research. For more information, visit For further information contact Klas Moreau, CEO at +46-725-268101 ZeroPoint Technologies ABFalkenbergsgatan 3412 85 GöteborgSwedenweb: phone: +46-725-268101 This information was brought to you by Cision The following files are available for download: Press release (PDF) View original content: Sign in to access your portfolio
