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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy took part in some light throwing on Monday after missing his first career game because of an injury and the 49ers are hoping he can return this week. Purdy hurt his throwing shoulder during a loss to Seattle on Nov. 17. Purdy underwent two MRIs last week that showed no structural damage. But Purdy he felt discomfort after making a few throws at practice on Thursday and was shut down for the game at Green Bay on Sunday that San Francisco lost 38-10 . Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

Google has recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI, and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. Ok, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, they had great potential, but it seemed that few developments crossed the competitive threshold, and they didn't get a lot of traction in the market, perhaps due more to marketing than product. Recent announcements, however, made it clear that this is no longer the case, and the stock responded by skyrocketing by over 11% in the last two trading days. It looks like the market has decided that hardware is cool again. Google has introduced the breakthrough Willow chip for quantum computing, the new Trillium AI chip that powers the newly released Gemini 2.0 AI Model, and GA'd its first Arm-based server chip, called Axion, to compete with Amazon's Graviton and displace some Intel and AMD x86 cloud instances. Let's take a look. Willow Quantum AI Computing Google has been competing with Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and others to advance the state of quantum computing. While quantum remains a research project worldwide, the potential is staggering, and it could reshape the computing landscape to solve currently unsolvable problems in the next decade. The 105-qubit Willow replaces Google's 53-qubit Sycamore in a big way by supporting more qubits and improving error correction, making the qubits more usable. Google grouped qubits to reduce error rates, one of the primary factors currently limiting quantum computing to the experimental stage. State-of-the-art quantum computers typically have one error rate in a hundred to a thousand. Traditional binary computers only produce memory errors once in a billion billion calculations. So, if one does the math, quantum computers have error rates about 1 billion to 10 billion times higher than classical computers, as quantum circuits are susceptible to a range of disturbances, like temperatures, electromagnetic radiation, and vibrations. Typically, the error rates increase as quantum systems scale to a more significant number of qubits. But that is not the case with Willow. The bigger the mesh of qubits becomes, the better Willow performs. "Every time we increased our logical qubits – or our groupings – from 3-by-3 to 5-by-5 to 7-by-7 arrays of physical qubits, the error rate didn't go up," Google researcher Michael Newman said. "It kept coming down. It went down by a factor of two every time we increased the size." A modest improvement compared to the one in ten billion deltas of traditional computers puts Google on a path to viable commercial operations in the next five years as qubit counts exceed 1000. Willow also shows significantly improved coherency, the ability of qubits to maintain their state over time. Willow demonstrated a doubling of memory coherence, another essential step in reducing inherent error rates. Willow Quantum Achieves What Supercomputers Simply Cannot In the Nature article announcing Willow, Google claimed that the new system could solve a mathematical problem that has vexed scientists for decades called Random Circuit Sampling, or RCS. Willow ran the RCS benchmark in less than five minutes, while the massive Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratories would theoretically take ten septillion years (1 followed by 25 zeros). Willow is a research tool that achieves a significant milestone along the path of quantum supremacy or utility in commercial applications beyond the reach of today's largest supercomputers. But like other quantum computers, Willow has very few, or zero, commercial applications. Give the industry a few years, and that could change. However, the stock market didn't care about that nit and rewarded Google with a remarkable 7% price increase on the announcement day. Trillium: The 6th Generation Of Google TPU For AI Google announced today the general availability of Trillium , the latest and most advanced TPU in the company's nine-year effort to offer a competitive AI accelerator. Trillium was built to scale and is available on Google Cloud with over 100,000 Trillium chips per Jupiter network fabric, capable of scaling a single distributed training job to hundreds of thousands of accelerators. Trillium was used to create the new Gemini 2.0 AI model and serve inference processing of that model. Trillium comes in a 256-chip pod and scales to hundreds of thousands of chips, making it possible to train trillion-parameter AI models. Trillium boasts the following over its predecessor: While TPUs have always been excellent accelerators, they have struggled to gain a significant market share as TPUs are only available on the Google Compute Platform. However, Apple has now said that Apple Intelligence was trained on Google TPUs, and Google TPU has a majority share of the other cloud accelerators, including Microsoft and Amazon AWS. But where Trillium shines is for Mixture of Expert models, or MoEs. The models stress the network that connects accelerators, and the Trillium pods are nearly four times faster than the previous TPU v5e at the same size. As MoEs are snowballing, this could help Google capture more market share on its cloud. Google Finally Enters The Arm Battle Google recently released their own Arm chip, Axion, following Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, who have already released their Arm server CPUs. While less glamorous technology than AI and quantum processors, Arm has been steadily increasing the server CPU market share. TrendForce projects that the penetration rate of Arm architecture in data center servers will reach 22% by the end of 2025, posing a significant threat to the x86 CPU market share. Axion is a well-designed server CPU with 35% better performance, 60% better price performance, and 65% better power efficiency than "current generation" x86 chips. Now that it has become generally available, we should expect Axion to garner a significant share of the Google Cloud compute fleet for internal and customer applications. Where Does This Leave Google? We believe that Google now has a portfolio of complete in-house systems to compete with and even be the best of other cloud providers and chip companies. Google has a fast Arm-based CPU, a speedy and scalable AI accelerator that excels with the latest workloads like training MoE models, a quantum computing platform that should be able to keep up with or even pass most competitors and the AI software stack and models developers need to attract the ecosystem and end-users to its cloud computing platform. Disclosures : This article expresses the author's opinions and should not be taken as advice to purchase from or invest in the companies mentioned. Cambrian-AI Research is fortunate to have many, if not most, semiconductor firms as our clients, including Blaize, BrainChip, Cadence Design, Cerebras, D-Matrix, Eliyan, Esperanto, Flex, GML, Groq, IBM, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Si-Five, SiMa.ai, Synopsys, Ventana Microsystems, Tenstorrent and scores of investment clients. 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Davonte Sweatman shot 3 of 10 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 6 for 6 from the line to finish with 14 points. Tymu Chenery led the way for the Bearcats (2-5) with 16 points and four assists. Nehemiah Benson added 14 points and six rebounds for Binghamton. Gavin Walsh also had nine points and eight rebounds. NEXT UP Cent. Conn. St.’s next game is Sunday against UMass-Lowell at home. Binghamton squares off against Niagara on Friday. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. AdvertisementKing and PM honour former US president Jimmy Carter after his death aged 100

CLEVLEAND (AP) — Shane Bieber's comeback with Cleveland has double meaning. And deeper meaning. The former Cy Young winner re-signed with the Guardians on Wednesday, a reunion that seemed unlikely when he became a free agent following last season. However, the 29-year-old Bieber decided to stick with the AL Central champions after making just two starts in 2024 before undergoing Tommy John surgery. There were other offers. None of them matched what he already had in Cleveland. “It's the relationships,” Bieber said on a Zoom call. "The development staff. The coaching staff. My teammates. Having continuity and familiarity in those realms I feel like can prove beneficial not only to me but my family and everybody really involved. "That was big for me to feel confident in my rehab where I’m at right now. Nobody knows me as well as Cleveland does and vice versa, so I’m happy to be continuing with them." Bieber agreed last week to a one-year, $14 million contract . The deal includes a $16 million player option for 2026. Not long ago, it seemed as if Bieber, who is 62-32 with a 3.22 ERA in 132 starts over seven seasons for Cleveland, was determined to continue his career elsewhere. He had turned down previous long-term offers in the past from the Guardians, and it was expected he would sign with another contender, likely on the West Coast. But the California native has a special connection with the Guardians, who selected him in the fourth round of the 2016 draft. And while a setback, the injury and surgery helped Bieber realize that he was already in the perfect place. “I had plenty of great meetings and beneficial and progressive meetings with other ball clubs,” he said. "Everybody handled everything first class all the way, and I’ve got great things to say about plenty of other organizations. “Ultimately, Cleveland made the call and I was happy to receive it and come to terms and so I’m happy with where I’m at. My family’s ecstatic. It was very clearly the right decision for not only myself, my family, and we’re excited to continue it.” Bieber, who won the AL Cy Young in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, threw only 12 innings last season before lingering issues with his elbow forced him to have surgery. He is expected to join Cleveland's rotation at some point in 2025. He's throwing three days a week at 90 feet and encouraged by his progress. As for when he'll take the mound in a game, that's currently unknown. “I’m pushing, pushing, pushing.” he said. “I feel great. I haven’t skipped a beat. When I ask for a (return) date, they don’t even give me a date. So there’s a long way to go.” A two-time All-Star, Bieber burst onto the national stage in 2019 when he was named MVP of the midsummer event in Cleveland. He has the highest strikeout ratio per nine innings (10.2) and third-highest winning percentage (.660) in the franchise's 124-year history. Bieber is one of just three Cleveland pitchers to start five season openers, joining Stan Coveleski (1917-21) and Corey Kluber (2015-19). While Bieber had some elbow issues in the past, he didn't appear to be struggling before being shut down. He struck out 11 in six scoreless innings against Oakland on March 28, and followed that up with six more shutout innings at Seattle on April 2. Days later, and with his season officially over, Bieber became emotional during a news conference at Progressive Field. He knew that in the short-term his life would be different and baseball, as he had always known it, would be on the backburner. Bieber said it took a while before he “digested” his new reality. He coped by immersing himself in his recovery, and Bieber found joy in watching his teammates storm through an unexpected season to a division title. Although it may not have been the same because he wasn't contributing on the field the way he always had, the hardships may have given Bieber something he needed. “It’s provided a lot of perspective,” he said. “It was a hard season this year for me and my family, but it was a great one. We’re expecting a baby and it was a season full of growth and I’m very excited to continue that into 2025.” ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB Tom Withers, The Associated Press

Tehama County Probation Officer Oscar Morales, who is a dual member of the Probation Business Managers Association (PBMA) and Probation Information Technology Managers Association (PITMA), was honored at the 2024 Annual Chief Probation Officers of California Awards Ceremony with the Affiliate Employee of the Year Award. The recognition celebrates Morales’ outstanding initiative, technical expertise, and dedication to advancing the mission of the probation profession, reports Chief Probation Officers of California. “Oscar’s willingness to take initiative and go above and beyond to enhance our work in probation is exemplary,” said Tehama County Chief Officer Pamela Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer of Tehama County. “His expertise and dedication are invaluable to Tehama County Probation and help make our community safer for everyone.” Morales helped lead initiatives to modernize the affiliate organizations and embraced the challenges with enthusiasm and skill. Creating backend systems and enhancing technology for probation work, he contributes fundamentally to the work of probation to create safer communities and help connect offenders to transformative rehabilitation services, she added. “Oscar’s initiative, creativity, and passion have made a profound impact on PBMA, PITMA and probation throughout California” said Kelly Vernon, CPOC president and Tulare County probation chief. “His ability to tackle challenges head-on and deliver outstanding results exemplifies the leadership and commitment we celebrate with this award.” CPOC commends individuals like Morales, whose contributions enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of probation operations statewide. The Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC) is an association of all 58 counties with a shared identity as law enforcement leaders and states it is committed to a research-based approach to public safety that promotes positive behavior change.

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