A Transformer Becomes an LLM
A transformer architecture becomes a large language model through training on trillions of tokens, using residual connections to enable deep networks, tokenization to split text into manageable units,…
A transformer architecture becomes a large language model through training on trillions of tokens, using residual connections to enable deep networks, tokenization to split text into manageable units,…
IBM Research announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7nm node on June 25, 2026, using a vertically stacked 3D nanosheet architecture called 'nanostack' to overcome quantum…
On June 25, 2026, IBM announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7nm node, packing nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized chip. The breakthrough required rebu…
IBM Research unveiled its NanoStack architecture, a sub-1nm 3D transistor stacking technology that achieves a 50% performance improvement and 70% power reduction over its 2nm design. However, the tran…
Shrijith Venkatramana, building git-lrc, explains the evolution of LLM evaluation metrics from BLEU to BLEURT and COMET. BLEU, introduced in 2002, measures n-gram overlap and correlates with human jud…
Quantum reported $78 million in revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2026, a 27.3% year-over-year increase, marking its second consecutive growth quarter. The company cited strong demand for tiere…
TrueNAS CEO Brett Davis said the company is expanding tiering capabilities to help customers optimize storage costs amid memory and SSD price increases driven by AI demand. Davis noted that TrueNAS is…
The Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launched Akrites, a coordinated initiative to patch vulnerabilities in open-source software before …
IBM has announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a breakthrough in semiconductor manufacturing that promises major gains in computing power and energy efficiency. The new architect…
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology on June 25, 2026, using a new 0.7nm 'Nanostack' 3D transistor architecture that packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-si…
Researchers from Emory University and IBM developed ContextNest, a context governance framework for autonomous AI agents, achieving a 97% pass rate on retrieval tasks while using 67% fewer tokens. The…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality inspection tools failed to preserve institutional knowledge and develop junior staff, leading to a quality crisis. The move helped Ford win the 2026…
RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era j…
Agentic traffic on the web has surpassed human traffic for the first time in history, according to Union Square Ventures (USV). The venture firm argues that the AI opportunity will be owned by a broad…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised ove…
Europe's record-breaking heat wave is straining power grids as cooling demand surges, forcing some power plants offline and highlighting the need for utilities to adapt to climate change. Meanwhile, I…
IBM unveiled the world's first 0.7nm chip technology on June 25, packing roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized chip. The sub-1nm breakthrough nearly doubles transistor density over I…
IBM unveiled a 0.7nm chip technology using a nanostack architecture that doubles transistor density over its 2nm design, packing nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip. The chip is …
IBM Research unveiled NanoStack, a sequential stacking CMOS transistor architecture that promises 50% area reduction and up to 70% power savings compared to its 2 nm node. The design targets the CMOS …
IBM and University of Illinois researchers published a new method for vertically stacking transistor layers using ultrathin silicon nanomembranes, achieving 98-100% device yields at temperatures below…