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NVIDIA and Cisco USFP optics quadruple AI factory bandwidth density
NVIDIA and Cisco's USFP module promises 12.8Tb/s capacity and 4x bandwidth density for AI factory networks, though no hardware has shipped.
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AI chips and hardware — GPUs, custom silicon and the data centres behind AI, and what they cost.
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NVIDIA's $3.5B MediaTek deal extends AI from cloud to car
NVIDIA's $3.5 billion convertible bond investment in MediaTek locks in a partner spanning AI factories, consumer PCs and autonomous vehicles.
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NVIDIA RTX Spark adds EA, Ubisoft games ahead of fall launch
NVIDIA's RTX Spark, a 1-petaflop Windows superchip launching this fall, has signed EA, Ubisoft and Embark to run AAA games on a single chip.
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PyTorch hits GitHub trending at 102,613 stars
PyTorch appeared on GitHub's daily trending list with 102,613 stars and 22 new ones that day, ten years after the framework was first created.
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Distilled AI safety guard runs on CPU in 24ms, matches teacher
A new distillation recipe shrinks LLM safety guards to run on commodity CPUs in 24ms, matching 8-billion-parameter teachers on adversarial prompts.
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EU, US and China AI rules diverge, new study warns
New arXiv paper maps how AI regulation diverges across the EU, US and China, identifies three compliance gaps, and proposes a machine-checkable fix.
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Chiplet and AI chip-design security threats mapped in new preprint
An arXiv preprint maps security threats across chiplet systems and LLM-driven chip design tools, directly affecting fabless semiconductor teams adopting
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Reinforcement learning cuts AI training power violations 89%
An RL controller for GPU power cut violations 89% and boosted energy efficiency 26% in LLM training, then failed at 72B scale before a rebuild fixed it.
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NVIDIA Cosmos 3 open model combines three physical AI skills
NVIDIA's open-weights Cosmos 3 model combines vision reasoning, world generation and action prediction for robotics and autonomous vehicles.
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Agentic AI bottleneck is the CPU, not GPU, study finds
An arXiv paper drawing on Microsoft Azure production data finds agentic AI workflows bottleneck on CPU orchestration, not GPU inference, reshaping
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SeT-Diff: first foundation model for supercomputer telemetry
SeT-Diff from University of Bologna conditions diffusion models on sensor descriptions, doing imputation, forecasting and virtual sensing in one model.
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Kernel Forge: AI agent writes CUDA kernels, 2.83x speedup
A new open-source tool from University of Michigan researchers lets any PyTorch model get automatic CUDA kernel speedups without manual GPU programming.