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A | A former Oregon Department of Corrections employee who worked as a nurse at Oregon’s only women’s prison has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting nine inmates while on the job.The man, 39-year-old Tony Daniel Klein of Clackamas County, Oregon, worked as a nurse from 2010 until January 2018 at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon, when he abused his position of power and access to female inmates to engage in “nonconsensual sexual conduct with many female inmates entrusted to his care,” according to court documents per a statement released from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Oregon.“In his position, Klein interacted with female inmates who either sought medical treatment or worked as orderlies in the prison’s medical unit, aided by his access to the women and his position of power as a corrections employee,” officials said.Klein, who was often alone with his victims, would “manufacture reasons to get them alone in secluded areas such as medical rooms, janitor’s closets, or behind privacy curtains,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in their statement regarding the case. “Klein made it clear to his victims that he was in a position of power over them, and they would not be believed if they tried reporting his abuse. Fearing punishment if they fought back against or reported his conduct, most of Klein’s victims submitted to his unwanted advances or endured his assaults.”A federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment on March 8, 2022, charging Klein with multiple civil rights crimes. On July 25, 2023, a federal jury in Portland found Klein “guilty of 17 counts of depriving his victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by sexual assault and four counts of perjury.”Klein was ultimately sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for his crimes on Tuesday.“Today’s sentence sends a clear message that using a position of authority to prey on individuals in custody will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice. Holding Tony Klein accountable for his crimes would not have been possible without the courage and resolve of the women he abused and the dedication of our partners at the FBI and Civil Rights Division,” said Natalie Wight, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division echoed Wight’s sentiments.“The sentence in this case should send a significant message to any official working inside jails and prisons across our country, including those who provide medical care, that they will be held accountable when they sexually assault women inmates in their custody,” said Clarke. “Women detained inside jails and prisons should be able to turn to medical providers for care and not subjected to exploitation by those bent on abusing their power and position. We will listen to and investigate credible allegations put forward by people who are sexually assaulted and, where appropriate, bring federal prosecutions. The Justice Department stands ready to hold accountable those who abuse their authority by sexual assaulting people in their custody and under their care.”The case against Klein was investigated by the FBI Portland Field Office and was prosecuted by Gavin W. Bruce, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, and Cameron A. Bell, Trial Attorney for the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section.“We know this prison sentence cannot undo the trauma Tony Klein inflicted on numerous victims, but we hope this brings them one step closer to healing,” said Kieran L. Ramsey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Portland Field Office. “As a state prison nurse, Klein abused his position and abused multiple women, violating the public’s trust, while doing everything he could to avoid being caught. The investigators and prosecutors should be applauded for their efforts to hold Klein accountable, but we recognize this lengthy sentence is also because of a group of brave women who came forward and helped ensure that Klein was held accountable for being a sexual predator within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.”。

B | 本文来自微信公众号：财联社AI daily （ID：gh_f7653dea6e99），作者：周子意据业内人士透露，微软已向英特尔下达其下一代人工智能芯片Maia 2的晶圆代工订单，计划采用英特尔的18A或18A-P制程。

C | 该芯片或将用于微软Azure数据中心等人工智能基础设施。如果消息属实，这笔交易将使微软能够获得一个位于美国当地的芯片供应链。此外，考虑到美国政府对英特尔的投资，这笔交易在其他方面也可能对微软有利。 ▍潜在合作 2024年初时，曾有报道称英特尔和微软宣布将利用英特尔的18A制造工艺打造一款“定制处理器”。当时这两家公司并未透露该芯片的具体用途，使得行业观察人士在猜测和解读方面有了很大的空间。如今，这两家公司打破了沉默，有消息人士公布了英特尔代工业务的18A代工厂客户信息，称英特尔代工厂正计划为微软生产一款基于18A或18A-P（性能提高8%）制程的人工智能处理器。这一潜在合作具有双重战略意义：一方面，此举旨在实现微软芯片供应链的多元化，以降低对单一供应商的过度依赖，增强供应链韧性；另一方面，也顺应了美国《芯片法案》中推动本土半导体制造业复兴的国家战略。对英特尔来说，这也将是个重大进展。

D | 如果微软的Maia 2有望在英特尔代工厂生产，那么后者公司的18A（或18A-P）的制造工艺预计将对英特尔开拓其他代工厂客户有利；此外，这份合同也有可能是英特尔节点良品率良好的标志。

E | 有分析指出，若此次合作进展顺利，双方可能就未来几代Maia芯片开启长期合作，从而在人工智能硬件领域形成更稳固的联盟。 ▍微软对Maia项目寄予厚望微软在传统观念里是一家专注于云计算和软件的巨头，但该公司其实拥有一支强大的硬件开发团队，旨在为各种数据中心应用定制生产芯片，包括Cobalt CPUs、DPUs以及Maia人工智能加速器等。虽然微软目前在人工智能领域的大部分产品都还是依赖英伟达的人工智能加速器，但该公司正在大力投入，以优化其硬件和软件，以实现更高的性能，同时提高效率，从而降低总体拥有成本。因此，Maia处理器对于微软来说是一项重要的项目。微软最初的Maia 100处理器是一块面积达820平方毫米的巨型硅片，其内部集成了1050亿个晶体管。不过其面积比英伟达的H100（814平方毫米）或B200/B300计算芯片组（750平方毫米）都要大。假设微软的人工智能处理器转为由英特尔代工制造，那么英特尔的18A制造工艺有望实现足够低的缺陷密度，从而能够以良好的良率大规模生产此类芯片。