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Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu told China's AI industry at the company's Connect conference on September 17 that domestic model providers are developing too slowly to encounter the frontier safety risks US firms like O…
Anthropic has signed a lease for its first Australian data center, an inference-only facility in Queensland's Western Downs Digital Park backed by A$32 billion (US$21B+) in investment, announced by Queensland Premier Dav…
Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, claiming it is the industry's first supercomputer cluster to use Near-Packaged Optics (NPO). The system supports up to 4,0…
Rubrik has shipped a Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation co-engineered with Anthropic, making it the third Fortune-500 vendor in two weeks to adopt MCP as a default agent interop standard after Salesforce and Goo…
Nokia and Microsoft announced an expansion of their partnership on September 17, integrating Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric to create a unified data foundation for autonomous telecom network operations, which the…
Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, which the company says is the industry's first SuperPoD to use Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) technology, supporting up to 4,096 NPU cards with up to 8E FP8 com…
NodePilot launched as an agentless Windows workflow orchestration tool positioned as a modern, open replacement for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, importing native .ois_export XML runbooks with activities, links, …
Weekly token consumption on OpenRouter surged more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, rising from 0.5 trillion to 126.2 trillion tokens, according to The Decoder. The publication attributes the increase less to actu…
Ontos-AI released Knowhere 2.0, a document parsing and retrieval system that reconstructs document hierarchy for AI agents through dual Vision and Text tracks, with the full stack open-sourced on May 7, 2026. The Septemb…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced on September 7, 2026 that Karmada, a multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project, has graduated to CNCF's highest maturity tier, coinciding with its v1.1…
Vinod Bijlani, a Forbes Councils Member, argues in a Forbes Innovation piece that dollars per FLOP is becoming a critical AI cost metric, and that tech leaders need to understand how efficiently capital, energy and physi…
Huawei's Intelligent World 2035: From Vision to Action report forecasts that global annual token consumption will rise 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI-agent traffic accounting for more than 90% of the total. The report als…
Speculative decoding, an inference optimization introduced independently by Chen et al. at DeepMind and Leviathan et al. at Google in 2023, cuts LLM decoding latency without changing output quality by having a small draf…
IDCA research indicates that as much as 13% of US cloud usage comes from zombie workloads — abandoned jobs, instances, and storage volumes that keep consuming power, rack space, and budget — according to Roger Strukhoff,…
Runpod found that improving the data foundation, not the underlying large language model, was what fundamentally changed the quality of its conversational Slack data agent, according to the company's account of building …
Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie announced that the company's GLM-5.3-driven 'Infra Agent' delivered a 3.2x end-to-end throughput improvement on a production-grade inference system running on a cluster of more than 100,000 dome…
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a "System One" model that answers structured choice, score, and boolean questions instead of generating text, claiming 193.6x faster and 444.6x cheaper performance than frontier LLMs on agent ro…
A developer built Don Watch, a browser-based real-time flood digital twin of Sheffield's River Don that runs entirely client-side using WebGPU, three.js, and an on-device language model loaded via WebLLM. The tool recons…
Z.ai published a blog post titled "GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure," detailing the GLM model family's in-house inference stack. The post drew 2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News.
Huawei launched the Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster at its annual conference in Shanghai on Thursday, a successor to the Atlas 950 SuperPod it released late last year, and said it plans to launch the Ascend 970 and …