Items tagged with AI
An AI safety researcher who just quit Anthropic has ignited another debate over existential risk, claiming/warning that humanity faces a real threat of extinction from unaligned superintelligence within the next decade.
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of...
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Qualcomm and Amazon have announced a multi-generational strategic collaboration to co-develop custom AI inference silicon and high-bandwidth optical interconnects for hyperscale data centers. The agreement marks Qualcomm's largest...
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Artificial intelligence is now radically reshaping the landscape of physics, generating experimental layouts that outperform traditional human engineering while sparking questions about the nature of scientific inquiry.
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What was reported as an industry rumor last week is now official. NVIDIA has formally announced it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI community's primary hub, for $12.93 billion and change ($12,930,300,000, to be...
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Following last week's milestone reveal of the 5GHz Oryon CPU and FlexCache architecture, Qualcomm is continuing its pre-Summit deep-dive series by turning its attention to the graphics subsystem, and what's on tap should have mobile gamers...
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Dyson has entered the oral hygiene game with the CameraJet, a tech-heavy electric toothbrush that mounts an endoscopic camera and a fluid jet at the brush head to shoot mouth rinse between your teeth. With this gadget, the vacuum giant...
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Framework is teasing a massive 192GB memory option that is headed to its compact Framework Desktop system. Driven by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 'Gorgon Halo' processor, the upgraded desktop is tailored specifically for developers and...
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SK hynix has officially broken ground on its first U.S. manufacturing site, kicking off construction on a $4 billion advanced packaging and R&D facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. Located within the Purdue Research Park, the 133-acre...
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NVIDIA has published its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, delivering yet another record-shattering performance powered by continued global demand for AI infrastructure. For the quarter ending July 26, 2026, the...
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Local AI is a fast-moving field, and there's a lot of confusion around how to get started with it. Most novice users start with a lot of questions, like "what models will run well on my hardware?" or "how do I serve it?" nevermind even...
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In AI inference, you have two phases of the workload: prefill and decode. In most cases, decode is overwhelmingly the more time-consuming portion of the workload because it's strictly memory-bandwidth bound. You can have all the compute in...
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Micron has announced a $10 billion commitment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a long-horizon research institution headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The new hub is designed to look well beyond today's standard DRAM and...
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Google has just purchased the digital footprint of defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million in a court bankruptcy auction, securing a massive archive of corporate communications and operational data to train its AI models.
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NVIDIA has officially finalized a land, power, and shell (LPS) financial guarantee for OpenAI's massive 10-gigawatt data center in Pike County, Ohio, cutting its initial commitment to financing 4.25 IT-gigawatts (IT-GW). initially...
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LG has announced a major strategic collaboration with NVIDIA focused on industrial automation and advanced robotics. The partnership centers around two core initiatives: accelerating AI-driven factory transformation and developing...
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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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