AMD reported a 4x improvement in AI energy efficiency from 2024 to mid-2026, exceeding its projected 3x target, and remains on track for its 20x rack-scale goal by 2030. The company's 20x30 initiative…
IBM was selected on July 22, 2026, for a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission Phase I project on AI-assisted quantum application discovery, and committed up to $50 million in quantum-system acces…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected IBM for a Phase I Genesis Mission project focused on AI-assisted quantum application development, with IBM providing up to $50 million in access to its quant…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is positioning quantum hybrid computing as an integration challenge, connecting quantum systems with high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, according to exper…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. senior vice president Trish Damkroger said supercomputing and enterprise AI infrastructure are converging into a unified foundation, with AI agents already running scien…
AMD announced that its Lux supercomputer, built with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, EPYC CPUs, and Pensando networking at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will become the first fully operational platform for…
IBM will contribute up to $50 million in quantum system access to the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a national initiative to build an integrated science discovery platform combining AI,…
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Anthropic on Monday in Delaware federal court, accusing the AI company of using its neural network technolog…
Quantum processing units (QPUs) are moving from physics experiments to data center infrastructure, with organizations like the Open Compute Project and the U.K.'s Quantum Data Centre of the Future pro…
Supercomputing is splitting into two tracks in 2026: publicly funded exascale systems ranked by TOP500 FLOPS and hyperscaler-built AI campuses measured in megawatt–gigawatt capacity. Microsoft claimed…
Standard Nuclear Inc. filed for an IPO targeting a valuation of up to $3.55 billion, seeking to raise $383.25 million amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers. The Tennessee-based nuclear …
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory has deployed an AI framework that reduces plant image analysis from weeks to seconds, using a conversational Co-Scientist Agent an…
Three high-performance computing experts—Jack Dongarra, Torsten Hoefler, and Satoshi Matsuoka—are questioning the necessity of GPUs in AI and scientific computing in a forthcoming paper, prompted by t…
A widely cited claim that AI inference GPUs last only three years under high utilization is based on an anonymous source from a paid expert network, raising questions about its reliability. Google has…
A team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Frontier supercomputer to run the largest-ever simulation of the observable universe, tracking over 4 trillion particles acr…