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AMD Advancing AI 2026: Talking CDNA5 with AMD’s Alan Smith Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are over AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event to chit chat on their newly revealed CDNA5 architecture with Alan Smith! AMD's Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect for Datacenter GPUs. Hope

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. As AI Expands to Orbit, Can Ground-to-Space Links Keep Pace? With AI workloads spreading across terrestrial and orbital compute, the atmosphere is emerging as the key bottleneck for moving data between g

Every several weeks, we hear reports of mind-expanding new capabilities from the AI community. With excitement and dread, we try to extrapolate what this will mean for mankind and society: speculating which jobs will disappear, which jobs will appear, and when computers will outr

Every several weeks, we hear reports of mind-expanding new capabilities from the AI community. With excitement and dread, we try to extrapolate what this will mean for mankind and society: speculating which jobs will disappear, which jobs will appear, and when computers will outr

Texas cannot enforce a law’s requirement that websites block minors from seeing harmful speech, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled on Friday. Big Tech lobby groups challenged the Texas “law’s requirement that certain social media-based ‘digital service providers’ (

Crypto stocks were some of the top gainers Monday as the broader market sold off and capital rotated away from chip and AI infrastructure names. Bitmine Immersion led the group, surging 11% after the ether accumulator increased its holdings of the cryptocurrency by nearly 10,000

Crypto stocks were some of the top gainers Monday as the broader market sold off and capital rotated away from chip and AI infrastructure names. Bitmine Immersion led the group, surging 11% after the ether accumulator increased its holdings of the cryptocurrency by nearly 10,000

Politicians and world leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are gathering in Washington to meet with President Donald Trump while in town to honor the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at his funeral service Tuesday. At Trump's invitation, Netanyahu flew to Washingto

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, companies behind proprietary, "closed" AI models are conspicuously absent from the alliance. A coalition of

Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and it’s also tearing copper wiring out of central offices as it converts them into

Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run Cached prompts can reach a 10x inference cost gain versus Anthropic and OpenAI's offerings

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship vehicle on Friday and appeared to demonstrate important and credible steps toward fulfilling the massive rocket’s immense promise. As soon as the vehicle’s next flight, Starship could go orbital, begin delivering satellites into space, an

Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space — namely Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as

Off the Wire Press Releases SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 27, 2026 — Synopsys, Inc. has announced new autonomous agentic AI workflows for chip design, developed in collaboration with Microsoft and available for evaluation on Microsoft Discovery. AI is fundamentally reshaping engineerin

Apple is being sued for alleged negligence regarding its App Store security measures. In a lawsuit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, three plaintiffs claim they were tricked into downloading and installing a fraudulent crypto wallet app, leading t

Off the Wire Press Releases July 27, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will lead a critical fusion energy research project and partner on seven other initiatives as a part of the Genesis Mission: the national initiative to harness a

At 2.80 pounds and 16.45 millimeters at its thickest point, the Dell Pro 7 14 Intel is one of the thinnest laptops Dell has put in its commercial Pro line, up to 17 percent slimmer than the 14-inch clamshell generation it replaces. The shell pairs an aluminum top cover and palm r

President Donald Trump on Monday voiced support for Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh while insisting that the U.S. should have the lowest interest rates in the world. While backing his choice to lead the central bank, Trump questioned the motives of other members of the Fed's

Amazon filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a license to operate a new network of 5,105 satellites that would provide service to mobile phones, with plans to start launching them in 2028. The move comes several months after Amazon acquired the satel

Investors looking to wager on stocks such as SpaceX and Micron Technology now have a new tool: single-stock futures that trade for nearly 24 hours a day. CME Group on Monday launched cash-settled single-stock futures on 55 U.S. equities, along with micro-sized contracts on 22 nam

Nvidia Accelerates Chip Engineering With AI Agents More than a decade ago, Nvidia turned its full focus on artificial intelligence, and since then has been churning out GPUs – and now CPUs – and other hardware designed to power AI systems as well as a wealth of software libraries

Nuclear power startup Antares Nuclear said Monday that it has raised $470 million to build small reactors for U.S. military bases. The Series C round, which was led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital with participation from Industrious Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Shine Capit

Amazon has asked federal regulators to approve a request to launch up to 5,105 internet satellites as part of a constellation that will provide direct-to-device connectivity. The company first telegraphed plans to launch a D2D network in April, when Amazon announced that it would

Last week, an unreleased model built by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining together exploit

Netflix's stock price may have lost the plot, but its fundamental narrative remains intact. Trading at 18.9x forward earnings — down near its 2022 bear-market trough (<15x) — the stock has gotten cheaper while the underlying business has gotten better. The Highlights - Valuation:

What you need to know if you're travelling to France or Spain Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated across France and Spain as the countries have been affected by large wildfires. The BBC's cost of living correspondent Kevin Peachey explains what to do if you're pla

JetBlue Airways is overhauling its fare options as it gears up to launch its domestic first-class seats and, yes, there is a restrictive basic option at the front of the plane. Travelers flying on JetBlue will start by choosing how much legroom they want and how premium they want

Sen. Mitch McConnell is recovering from his debilitating fall last month but still has not been cleared to return to work, the congressional physician's office said Monday, more than six weeks since the Kentucky Republican was last seen in public. Doctors from the Office of the A

Liverpool's centre-back situation and why Iraola must act - Published Two centre-backs caught the eye of Liverpool's scouting department at the U17 World Cup in Qatar last November. Within weeks, the club spent a combined £3.5m on the pair: Senegal's Mor Talla Ndiaye and Austria'

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities” of those authors “while remaining distinct in its own voice,” for exampl

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Why China is giving away its best AI models Chinese la

China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT Roughly five machines this year and 20 in 2027. A state-backed company in Shanghai ha

How can you trust AI agents? Veeam can help Veeam says that it's adding AI agent trust to its existing data trust capabilities The company says that it knows about data trust from its first two eras; backup and recovery from 1980 to 2017, and cyber-resilience from 2017 to 2026. T

Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads’ DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant. Although Threads users in select markets could already interact with Meta AI in public posts, like people can with Grok on X, this new integration lets

Dancing the frantic flash fandango The flash and memory supplier world went into a frenzy of activity over the weekend, with Micron starting a feud with Apple, Anthropic asking for chips from SK Hynix, Nvidia and SK Hynix partnering, 3D DRAM pointers from SK Hynix, and CXL memory

IBM has entered a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, LLC, a private research and development organization jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, s

Dive Brief: - David’s Bridal debuted The Outlet Shop by David’s Bridal, a concept that combines a full-price retail experience with a dedicated in-store outlet. - The outlet shop-in-shop opened in the company’s existing McAllen, Texas, location earlier this month, according to a

Announcing general availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery Snehanshu Shah Managing Director, Cortex GTM, Google Cloud Jan Bungert Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Business AI Platform Traditional data replication techniques often struggle to deliver the data freshn

Gap’s much-anticipated fragrance reboot launches Thursday, and fans have already registered both excitement and trepidation. Some aficionados of the original scents from the ’90s worry the remake won’t be up to snuff, according to comments on the brand’s Instagram page. They may