Items tagged with AI
NVIDIA isn't just selling chips to build AI clusters, it's also helping finance them. The semiconductor giant said it has entered into non-binding MOUs with six of the world's largest private equity and investment firms to create...
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How much hardware do you need to run a large language model (LLM) locally? You need a massive GPU, or a powerful AI-targeted machine like the HP Z2 Mini G1a, right? That's certainly one way to go. Alternatively you could grab a handful of...
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SK hynix isn't waiting around to see if the AI boom cools off. The South Korean chipmaker's board of directors has approved a 54.3 trillion won (around $38.1 billion in U.S. currency) investment to build two massive new fabrication plants...
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Google’s AI-powered search hit a snag when users asking about Flock Safety license plate cameras were told the devices were literal gold mines stuffed with precious metals—information that was not based on facts, but fake data from viral...
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AMD is making a big bet on the future of AI hardware. The Santa Clara chip designer announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, a company taking an unconventional approach to inference by...
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DoomPaint is the latest in the series of unusual Doom ports, from Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure. Russinovich whipped DoomPaint up in his spare time with the help of Claude Opus 4.8, based on information in his LinkedIn posts and the code itself.
DoomPaint is about what you'd...
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An anonymous tech firm offered a Northern Kentucky family $26 million, or nearly 10 times market value, for half of their family farm to build a massive AI data center, only to be flatly rejected.
In rural Mason County near Maysville...
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SpaceX set off some financial fireworks in the markets after reporting a surge in quarterly revenue alongside an exclusive hardware commitment with NVIDIA, even as rising capital expenditures temporarily weighed down its stock.
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StatCounter claims Linux has risen to 10.65% of the United States' web traffic, outstripping Chrome OS at 2.06%, macOS at 8.6%, and OpenBSD at below 1%. That's an interesting number, but the math doesn't add up if you assume the traffic is...
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Smartphone sales are hitting a wall, so MediaTek is betting big on a completely different (albeit red-hot) market segment. The Taiwanese chipmaker just approved a flexible $5 billion discretionary financing framework aimed at expanding its...
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Google has begun piloting a twice-weekly update cadence for its massively popular Chrome web browser, a decision it made in the wake of fast-moving, AI-powered attacks. And for major Chrome milestones, the company is aiming to deliver new...
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Microsoft has released its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 earnings report, and it showcases better-than-expected financial performance driven heavily by explosive enterprise AI demand (what else is new?). While overall company...
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Microsoft wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI defenders of its own. The company has unveiled Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to hunt down weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen defenses at...
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NVIDIA has assembled one of the broadest coalitions in recent tech memory to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group built around a single conviction that the people defending our digital infrastructure need open AI tools to do the job...
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NVIDIA is reportedly in negotiations to provide in the neighborhood of $250 billion in financial guarantees to help OpenAI secure a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in southern Ohio. Expanding on OpenAI's $100 billion partnership to power...
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Firefly Aerospace plans to run artificial intelligence workloads in lunar orbit later this year, and the silicon doing the heavy lifting comes from NVIDIA. The Jetson edge AI platform will fly aboard Firefly's Elytra spacecraft on Blue Ghost Mission 2, targeted for launch in late 2026, marking...
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As global demand for AI compute continues to outpace available hardware, NVIDIA and South Korea’s SK Group have announced an expanded, multi-faceted partnership valued at over $500 billion. Formalized via letters of intent at an AI Summit...
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Earlier this year, three leading LLMs, including OpenAI's GPT-5.2, took part in a test that showed all three had a willingness to start a nuclear war. One might have thought something like this would have made Congress take some sort of...
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As demand for local, privacy-focused artificial intelligence continues to surge, enterprise developers and researchers are searching for hardware capable of running heavy Large Language Models (LLMs) without relying on potentially costly...
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You may not have had this on your 2026 Bingo card, but NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has joined X, and he's already blown past 70,000 followers. What you probably could have guessed, however, is that his first post on the social media site...
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Intel nearly made a mockery of Wall Street estimates by blowing past expectations with $16.1 billion in second-quarter revenue, fueled by what company CEO Lip-Bu Tan called "unprecedented demand" for AI hardware. In doing so, Intel's...
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AMD and Anthropic have just announced a strategic partnership that will see the deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs in Helios rack-scale solutions. Also as part of the partnership, AMD said it committed to a...
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