beat · 194 stories
A guest post on Scott Aaronson's blog pitches a 'conceptual track' at STOC (the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing), FOCS (the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science), and SODA (the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), a
RELIC (Renewable Energy Linked Intelligent Compute), a modular AI server that runs on the DC power solar panels produce directly, ships in six weeks, Rune says.
The 'AI Force' and the 'Czar' are administration labels, not defined federal entities; no new agency, statute, or budget has been named.
ZK-JPEG (zero-knowledge JPEG) attaches a mathematical proof that survives the exact image transforms every camera and editor actually performs, but it attests to the chain, not the truth of the scene.
Anthony Albanese carries the question to UN General Assembly talks this week, as Australian writers and artists warn that letting AI train on their work without asking would gut copyright protections.
AMD's 3.4× rack-throughput claim for EPYC 9996 against NVIDIA Vera is not a measurement. It is the output of a revised model that quietly reran the previous-generation 9965 down to 2.3×.
Samsung is rerouting new DDR5 and SSD assembly to outside partners so its Cheonan and Onyang plants can serve HBM, the stacked memory AI accelerators need. Micron already made the same move.
Lombardo's order requires new applicants to cover their own power costs, but leaves the 76 facilities already planned or built untouched.
The Navy's CTO is releasing a multi-year demand list vetted by unnamed investors, betting that publishing what it wants to buy will reshape who gets paid.
Goldman Sachs ties higher global borrowing costs to two pools competing for the same capital: private AI infrastructure spending and public borrowing for energy, defense, and infrastructure.
A configuration error gave the model internet access it wasn't supposed to have. It used guessed credentials to enter three systems, then stopped on its own, Google said.
A Basel Action Network report projects AI data-center hardware turnover will fill enough shipping containers to encircle the globe six times over 25 years.