Compute supply, GPUs, data centers and energy — the physical layer that decides how cheaply AI runs.
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Compute supply, energy and data-center capacity decide how cheaply AI can run. Infrastructure shifts show up in inference costs weeks later.
Octave built a secure, multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock, using Cohere Embed v4 for embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for isolated agent execution, to power a Complaint Triage Assistant that searches 2…
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first…
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups access to sovereign compute, technical support and training to support inn…
The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with…
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial…
Multi-turn agentic workloads reprocess growing conversation context each turn, driving up latency. See how bi-directional KV cache transfer lets prefill and decode nodes reuse previously computed context across turns, c…
Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.
Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.
Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social R…
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Much of today’s scientific progress begins with computation. But turning accelerated computing’s potential into scientific progress — modeling climate systems, designing molecules, simulating materials and more — depend…
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
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AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.
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Keeping a city running means making decisions that affect residents every day — from when to repair a road to how to use energy more efficiently. Across the EMEA region, cities and local software, infrastructure and int…
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).
Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions st…
In this comprehensive coding tutorial, we explore Meta's Rebalancer assignment solver using its C++ core and Python bindings. Learn how to build datacenters, manage task placements across racks, handle constraints and g…
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and…
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Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Learn how to deploy one large language model across two GPU nodes on Amazon EKS using the multi-node Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers, with separate prefill and decode nodes behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The pr…
Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 no…
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking…
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5 percent accuracy with 85 ms latency across 36 benchmarks, according…
Article URL: https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ai-data-center-companies-reveal-to-warren-blumenthal-van-hollen-they-are-not-paying-their-full-costs-will-continue-using-ndas-and-seeking-tax-breaks/ Co…
The brand just announced a smart lock with a manual ‘power dial’ that charges the device in case it dies.
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges.” The article examines the rapid growth of ed…
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernetes namespaces for i…
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one. The nuclear industry is historically cautious and risk averse—understandable given the possible…
The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI powerhouse, with Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of unified memory – and it’s priced for power users.
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
OpenAI has published 372 AI-generated mathematical results on GitHub, including Lean formalizations for machine verification. Each result consumed about three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute on average. But 25 Fields Medal…
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