China's rare earth export curbs are directly threatening global datacenter operations as the clock runs out on an escalated licensing chokeoff, according to The Register. The restrictions target criti…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported that most of the vulnerabilities exploited in 2023 were known for years, some for decades, and should have been patched long a…
More than 100 technology companies, including major AI developers, have signed a statement warning that AI attacks are imminent, but they have not committed to paying for defensive measures, according…
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warns that the market power of Big Tech will cause the UK to lose the AI race, with 79 percent of UK businesses relying on digital platfor…
Nvidia and Cerebras are touting benchmark results at Hot Chips that show inference speeds of 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, but The Register argues these figures are unattainable in real prod…
Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap with a fresh AI-focused design, according to The Register. The new look emphasizes AI features across the productivity suite, though no specific figures…
Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled its MTIA 400 accelerator at the Hot Chips conference, designed for both LLM training and ad-serving inference, delivering 12 petaFLOPS of MXFP4 compute at 1.7 GHz, which i…
The Register reports that protests are mounting against police body camera vendor Axon, with the company facing backlash over its AI-powered products. The article highlights concerns from civil libert…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a personal website post that the AI era could be one of the most turbulent times in human history, potentially widening the rich-poor divide and causing …
The Debian project is polling its developers on whether to ban, restrict, or allow AI-assisted contributions, with eight proposals under consideration and voting extended by a week. The poll, which in…
McKinsey & Company's 2026 State of AI survey of 1,719 professionals found that 37 percent attribute at least some EBIT impact to AI use, about the same as in 2025, and only 6 percent qualify as AI hig…
OpenAI unveiled its Jalapeño AI accelerator at the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, claiming the custom chip, developed with Broadcom, delivers 1.5x to 1.9x higher peak throughput and 1.7x to 3.6x low…
SiFive has launched a new development server aimed at bringing RISC-V architecture into the datacenter, marking a significant push to compete with established players like Intel and AMD in the server …
Ukraine has unveiled a new jet-powered drone interceptor designed to counter Russian drones, according to a report from The Register. The native design aims to provide a cost-effective defense against…
Nvidia's first benchmarks for its Groq 3-based LPX racks show a 4x speedup over the nearest alternative, delivering 3,400 tokens per second on Google's Gemma 4 31B model, according to independent test…
Oracle has made its Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure generally available on Oracle AI Database@AWS, adding the high-performance database platform to the service that went live for l…
US datacenters used about 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, triple the amount in 2014, according to a report from the US Congressional Research Service (CRS). The report notes that direct water use…
AI vendors are increasingly turning to custom silicon from Cerebras and Marvell for inference workloads, and Waymo is designing its own chips for robotaxis, signaling a shift away from reliance on tra…
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group to investigate whether large language models can translate C codebases comprising h…
ZTE Digital Energy has developed an integrated full-stack energy storage system that uses AI to turn telecom backup batteries into revenue-generating grid assets, addressing rising electricity demand …