Items tagged with AI
In Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, a clash over the expansion of AI data centers has taken an extraordinary turn.
When NorthPoint Development proposed a 1,300-acre project in the Pocono foothills designed to host 15 data center buildings...
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A bold daylight trailer heist targeting what was thought to be high-value NVIDIA AI GPUs went hilariously off the rails after the thieves made off with two massive shipping containers loaded with 20 tons of sand. Wah-wah.
The theft...
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Nothing kills an afternoon quite like sitting on hold for half an hour or longer. It's a massive waste of time unless you truly enjoy listening to soft elevator music and cheesy ads on loop, all in an effort to ask a store or support...
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Sony has submitted a patent for an automated, cloud-based AI model that is designed to continuously monitor consumer electronics (like PlayStaion consoles or headphones), detect subtle software anomalies, and deploy custom repair code to...
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AMD hit a major financial milestone this week by crossing the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold for the first time in the company's long and storied history. Driven by a nearly 10% single-day surge, AMD shares reached a record...
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A safety benchmark study has shown that leading artificial intelligence models (when connected to a robotic arm) prefer to execute dangerous physical tasks up to 97% of the time, highlighting a problem between text-based AI safeguards and...
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Google Labs is doing its best Oprah Winfrey impression by saying, 'You get an AI agent, you get an AI agent, everyone gets an AI agent!', as its experimental CC tool that released last year is now more broadly available to families and...
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The most vocal critics of generative AI view the technology as overt labor theft, due to how the underlying web scraping and AI training works, and internal documents from Microsoft and OpenAI revealed by The New York Times v. Microsoft...
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NVIDIA has set the date and place for its next GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event, the second one of the year, which will run from November 30 to December 3, 2026, in Washington, D.C. For those who are interested in attending...
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NVIDIA, Google, and energy tech startup Emerald AI have joined forces to launch the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition aimed at advancing data centers that can actively adjust their power draw to provide relief during...
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HP is taking aim at mobile developers and data scientists with the ZBook Ultra G3a, a 16-inch mobile workstation designed to run massive local AI models without relying on cloud infrastructure. Or as the company refers to it in its press...
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A company that started out making affordable graphics cards for PC gamers is the most valuable company in the world, and a man known most for hosting a TV game show is the President of the United States. In that light, recent events don't...
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Google is expanding its desktop footprint by releasing a dedicated Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11, with support for both x86 and Arm. Having already arrived on Apple's macOS several years, having access to Gemini in a Windows app means PC users no longer have to keep a browser tab...
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Microsoft broke its previous Patch Tuesday record with yet another record-setter this week. September's Patch Tuesday will contain 974 total fixes, with 113 of them rated "Critical" for high likelihood of exploitation. So far this year...
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A multinational team of researchers comprising mathematicians and data scientists from Spain, Italy, and the US have just published a paper called "Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus" that is making some waves in the AI community...
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Over the past several weeks, Qualcomm has been revealing key details about the future of its next-generation mobile platform, including a blistering 5GHz Oryon CPU architecture and a new Adreno Neural Fusion graphics engine. Following up...
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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.
The alarm comes...
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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.
A publication in...
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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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