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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn’t making these changes “because we believe AI replaces humans,” but says AI has “fundamentally tra

AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center Massive performance gains, higher memory capacity, and a large scale-up domain make for AMD’s strongest AI chip yet At AMD

San Diego Comic-Con has kicked off strong, and we’ve got a couple of new trailers to show for it: the final trailer for Coyote vs. Acme, and the full trailer for director Zach Cregger’s fresh take on Resident Evil. Some lucky folks were also treated to a screening of Resident Evi

Off the Wire Press Releases RICHLAND, Wash., July 23, 2026 — The Department of Energy has announced Phase I funding awards for its Genesis Mission, including 42 that involve research teams from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Genesis Mission is a historic national init

AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions Like Groq, but different. AMD and Cerebras Systems on Thursday announced plans to develop a platfor

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Off the Wire Press Releases July 23, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has been awarded funding to lead and collaborate on a sweeping portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven research projects that will accelerate discovery on some o

Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse The GeForce RTX 3090 may no longer be one of the best graphics cards. However, it can still compete with the top performers today with a little help from it

AMD’s Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun Hello you fine Internet folks, here at AMD’s Advancing AI event we are looking at AMD’s brand new Instinct MI455X, replacing the older Instinct MI355X at the top of their AI stack. It is AMD’s first GPU designed for rack-scale AI deployme

Off the Wire Press Releases July 23, 2026 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is launching the procurement process for a EuroHPC quantum computer to be hosted and operated by LuxProvide in Luxembourg and integrated into the EuroHPC supercomput

New semiconductor firm breaks cover, backed by $43 million in early-stage funding — TYLsemi aims to deliver custom silicon to customers without breaking the bank Even small companies can now build custom processors without investing billions. A new semiconductor firm, TYLsemi (pr

Instinctive and EPYC; VAST Data sets up widespread AMD CPU/GPU collaboration VAST Data is setting up a deal with AMD for its AI OS software to support AMD EPYC and Instinct processors, and reference hardware to use EPYC processors as well, and aiming to build and operate high-per

The U.S. government is warning that Iranian state-backed hackers are actively breaking in and disrupting industrial control systems at American water and energy providers. This new alert comes months after federal agencies warned of an escalation in hacking from Iranian actors am

MOST POPULAR AI - SYSTEMS AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUsThe enemy of my enemy is my friend - AI and ML Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss

AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over Nvidia Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+ clock speeds That’s a big chip. AMD is finally providing some details on its first Zen 6 CPU, which it

AMD’s Venice-X CPU launches in 2027 with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and 5.15 GHz boost clock – Zen 6 CPU for high-performance computing comes with major pillars of Venice It’s the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. AMD’s Venice-X CPU is

Wall Street is banking heavily on exchange-traded funds that give investors artificial intelligence exposure, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The firm's "Guide to ETFs," which came out this month, finds it's a top five theme by assets under management — even as volatil

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to

Honda Motor on Thursday confirmed a next-generation model of its Ridgeline pickup truck will be produced in the U.S. following a temporary production stoppage later this year. The future of the midsize pickup truck has been in flux amid reports that there could be a production pa

Artificial Intelligence Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore This post was co-written with Motorway and the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. Motorway, a UK-based online car marketplace, runs a daily auction where up to 8,

OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans. The announcement comes a day after a Florida-based pastor sued the company for giving a near-fatal suggestion not to

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI’s vice president of health product, says the company’s models

Minimize idle accelerators: Native RL job interleaving with co-operative time-slicing in llm-d Poonam Lamba Senior Product Manager Aishu Kamal Software Engineer The math behind reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) is notoriously unforgiving.

Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support Multi-core testing gets a reality check. Primate Labs has released Geekbench 7, the latest version of its popular cross-platform benchmark. The update introd

A 63-year-old woman arrived at a hospital in pain. She had abruptly lost vision in her right eye. As doctors got to work, the series of findings that followed revealed not just bad news for her, but an alarming revelation of how infections can evolve within a patient. The woman’s

Arsenal set to make £70m bid for Newcastle's Guimaraes - Published Arsenal are set to make a £70m offer for Newcastle captain Bruno Guimaraes. Brazil international Guimaraes is a priority target for the Gunners, with the midfielder keen to join the Premier League champions. Newca

What could happen to prisoner early release scheme now PM has paused it? - Published Prime Minister Andy Burnham is pausing an early release scheme for some prisoners in England and Wales. His decision comes after the widow of PC Andrew Harper described the possibility of his kil

MOST POPULAR AI - SYSTEMS AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUsThe enemy of my enemy is my friend - AI and ML Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss

Artificial Intelligence Building trade assistant: How Jefferies optimized front office trading operations with AI If you manage a front office trading desk at investment banks, you know the challenge: traders need real-time insights into client behavior, trade patterns, and marke

On Thursday, Google became the third tech giant slapped with massive Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines, ordered to pay more than $1 billion for two serious violations that the European Commission (EC) found went unchecked for way too long. In a press release, the EC explained that

Alphabet is spending like there’s no tomorrow, and it’s freaking shareholders out. Its shares dropped 7% after it raised its AI spending for the third time this year to $205 billion. Its free cash flow turned negative for the first time in its 22 years as a public company, and it

Artificial Intelligence Building multi-Region visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon Quick When your carrier performance data spans multiple regions, your dashboard must reconcile fundamentally different competitive structures within a single view. For example, in the US, you r

Artificial Intelligence Detecting silent agent failures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization If you’re operating AI agents at scale, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore surfaces a category of insights you’ve probably experienced but struggle to detect: your dashboards show green acros

IBM’s earnings whiff could give the Trump administration more ammunition to rethink the quarterly earnings treadmill, which a top company executive called “outdated.” “It forces companies to do irrational things” like offering steep end-of-quarter discounts, IBM Vice Chair Gary C

Sports betting is degrading the financial health of the most vulnerable households, according to a new study that tees up an emerging political issue. The study, which draws on transaction data from more than 180,000 households, found that sports betting doesn’t replace shopping