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Meta reinvents AI metadata flow and KV caching Meta says storage is acting as a brake on AI because its performance increase has been slow compared to AI compute speed tripling every two years. Metadata access flows and data ingestion schemes need reinventing to remove the brakes

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Impostor Chinese models pretend they're ClaudeResearchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation -

The Korea-focused AI Summit in San Francisco on July 24 gathered leaders from NVIDIA, OpenAI, Broadcom, Anthropic, Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and NAVER. Held during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit, the event produced announcements spanning AI factory cap

Artificial Intelligence Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS If you’re using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for complex analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents, such as financial due diligence or regulatory compliance reviews, you’v

Artificial Intelligence Deepgram enhances Amazon SageMaker AI support with AWS IAM Temporary Delegation Enterprises running self-hosted speech AI need fast, auditable support without giving partners long-lived access to their accounts. When a model returns unexpected results or a

Artificial Intelligence How Guardoc transforms medical document processing with Amazon Nova models Every day, nurses and care teams make critical decisions based on clinical documentation that is often fragmented, inconsistent, and prone to errors. Incomplete or inaccurate record

Dive Brief: - Gap Inc. is enlisting employees to join its creator program to promote Old Navy, Gap, Athleta and Banana Republic, the apparel company said in a press release Wednesday. - The program is now open to applications from Gap Inc.’s corporate, distribution and store staf

The ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2 is a large NVIDIA HGX B300 system. With two Intel Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” processors, eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, onboard NVLink interconnect, and more, this is a high-end GPU server for AI training and inference. The 8-GPU topology is also a ver

Cyber Snapshot Report: Go beyond the toolchain and build enterprise resilience Ilan Lanz Product Marketing Manager, Mandiant Even as machine-speed attacks dominate the headlines, Mandiant’s view from the frontline reveals that the vast majority of successful intrusions still stem

Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled - Published Wildfires are tearing through France and Spain, forcing more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes. France has seen its worst fires in two decades, while officials in the Spanish capital Madr

In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick use

AI search is rapidly becoming the default, whether users like it or not. In just a year’s time, Google’s AI-generated answers in search, known as AI Overviews, have gone from appearing in 15% of searches to 43%, according to a new report, driving a shift in how web users consume

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Impostor Chinese models pretend they're ClaudeResearchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation -

ASUS has announced a new server portfolio based on 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 processors, built specifically around the efficiency-optimized SP8 socket rather than the 256-core SP7 flagship. The lineup includes dual-socket RS700A and RS720A systems designed for maximum compute density

Pacsun debuted a limited-edition fashion and beauty collaboration centered around self-expression with Ulta Beauty, according to a Monday press release. The collaboration includes two curated beauty essentials kits featuring brands such as Drunk Elephant, NYX Professional Makeup,

Why an MMO mouse isn’t just for gaming — make use of the myriad of buttons for enhancing your productivity workflows in popular software applications The mouse that can do more than just game What kind of mouse do you employ for your daily PC or laptop usage? Is it a simple two-b

AI doesn’t run on code alone — it requires massive amounts of power, and that demand is increasingly becoming a critical bottleneck. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion b

Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore. Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a p

VAST Data has expanded its collaboration with AMD around AI infrastructure for cloud providers and enterprises deploying training, inference, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI services. The effort combines the VAST AI Operating System with 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors

Upgrading an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC with a 2TB SSD If you do a lot of gaming, 1TB might not be enough default storage. I recently tested the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC, and came away incredibly impressed with its performance. Put simply, it has no rival in

I’ve liked the Framework Laptop 13 since the first time I used it, partly because I just think the idea of a repairable and upgradeable laptop is cool and partly because it’s not Yet Another Ultraportable Trying To Be A MacBook Air Clone. But the design has always had real shortc

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase. The deal, which includes an undisclosed investment, w

Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead Team Blue crowed these efficient 65nm CPUs were “simply the best processors in the world” and reviewers tended to agree. Today marks 20 years

Dive Brief: - About 40% of parents expect to be more financially stressed this back-to-school shopping season compared to last year, according to a survey from Omnisend released Thursday. - The survey of 1,075 U.S. consumers found that 45% of households plan to use buy now, pay l

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Impostor Chinese models pretend they're ClaudeResearchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation -

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Framework Laptop 13 Pro's sturdy design, haptic trackpad, and bigger battery feel like they should have been there all along. This is the definitive version of the system, though it can get warm and is very expensive. Pros - +Improved, sturdier design t

Yinka’s view For years, the case for US investment in Africa has run into the same wall: Companies and financiers argued the regulations, infrastructure, and technical capacity needed to make projects bankable simply weren’t there. The US State Department thinks it finally has th

Texas Pushes AI Data Centers to Pay Their Own Grid Costs PUCT outlines new interconnection rules, cost reforms and planning changes following Gov. Abbott’s order to protect ratepayers and the ERCOT grid. Texas is tightening AI data center rules after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered regu

A monster wildfire engulfing parts of France's Bordeaux region has claimed hundreds and thousands of acres of land and forced one of the largest evacuations in the country. The fire began in the Southwest of France in Gironde last Wednesday and has burned nearly 104,000 acres in

African startup funding dipped by 6% year on year to $1.4 billion in the first six months of 2026, after the number of early-stage companies securing venture capital investment fell, data from Africa The Big Deal shows. The largest agreement for the year so far happened in June,