Meet Neo Beta: Your new, slightly creepy humanoid robot home assistant
The robot's vision and movement can be taken over by a human operator if needed
Microsoft details its first AI SoC: Maia 100 promises affordable AI acceleration
Maia likely won't beat Nvidia's H100 in a race, but cheaper can't hurt sales
AMD admits its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator still can't quite beat Nvidia's H100 Hopper
In context: The first official performance benchmarks for AMD's Instinct MI300X accelerator designed for data center and AI applications have surfaced. Compared to Nvidia's Hopper, the new chip secured mixed results in MLPerf Inference v4.1, an industry-standard benchmarking tool for AI systems with workloads designed to evaluate AI accelerator training and inference performance.
Overworked but wealthy employees are powering Nvidia's AI boom
Nvidia's stock price has exploded 3,776% since 2019
Broadcom is working to integrate optical connectivity directly into GPUs
Improvements in silicon photonics could solve today's power issues with AI accelerators
Cerebras challenges Nvidia with new AI inference approach, claims speed advantage
The company claims wafer-scale technology can set new standards in AI inference performance
AI startup Midjourney plans move into the hardware market
Multiple "form factors" are being considered
Google researchers run Doom on a self-generating AI model
Custom Stable Diffusion model generates Doom frames without a game engine behind it
Report: 80% of AI projects fail, doubling regular IT project failure rates
Executives can take most of the blame
IBM debuts new AI hardware with Telum II CPU and Spyre Accelerator chip
Big Blue is all about intelligent workloads and generative AI acceleration these days
Amazon's new AI-powered Alexa set to launch in October, could cost $10 a month
Would you subscribe?
Police departments are adopting a new GenAI tool to write incident reports
The technology has yet to be tested in court
AMD's $5 billion ZT acquisition: Strategic play or overpriced gamble?
Bottom line: The strategic rationale behind AMD acquiring ZT makes sense, to a point, but $5 billion is a lot to pay, especially when the true value of the transaction relies heavily on the price AMD will get when they spin off ZT's manufacturing unit.
Google DeepMind employees ask the company to stop providing AI tech to the military
A loud minority wants Google to adhere to its own principles in AI development
Nvidia to showcase Blackwell server installations at Hot Chips 2024
Nvidia's AI and data center roadmap, and more use cases for the Blackwell tech stack
Google's Reimagine AI tool works well, perhaps too well, so it can be easily abused
Looks like the safeguards aren't safe enough just yet
Microsoft will try to resurrect Windows Recall AI this October
Following privacy concerns, the screen recording feature will debut for Windows Insiders
AMD just spent $4.9 billion to buy hyperscale server maker ZT Systems
The move should boost AMD's AI infrastructure presence
Authors sue Anthropic for allegedly using pirated copyrighted work to train Claude
"Anthropic's model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression"
ChatGPT cheating is endemic in schools, and no one knows what to do
There are tools to detect cheating but their effectiveness is limited
Nvidia AI NPCs to debut in a mech fighting game next year
The AI voices still sound robotic but show promise
What just happened? After AI's massive success in boosting framerates, it's now getting ready for the next big thing in gaming – powering conversations. Nvidia is preparing to roll out a new artificial intelligence system called ACE that will allow players to interact with NPCs using plain speech.
Virginia data centers consume too much water, and things will only get worse with AI
A thirsty potato: According to private records obtained by the Financial Times through freedom of information requests, data center facilities in Virginia have experienced a significant increase in water consumption in recent years. The rise of generative AI could exacerbate this issue, potentially contributing to an environmental disaster in the making.
GitHub Copilot Autofix claims to identify and resolve security issues in your code
It's now generally available
Why are there so many AI accelerators?
And how venture capital moved away from semiconductors