Author: Zach_Wilson
Intel’s Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won’t even hit $500M goal
“We will not achieve our target of $500 million in revenue for Gaudi in 2024,” CEO Pat Gelsinger just said on the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call today. Though Intel just launched its recent Gaudi 3 accelerator this past quarter, said Gelsinger, “the overall uptake of Gaudi has been slower…
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Amazon’s new Alexa has reportedly slipped to 2025
In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon’s reinvention of its Alexa voice assistant has reportedly fallen even further behind. According to Bloomberg, the launch of a new Alexa — billed as a smarter, more capable AI-powered voice assistant — has been pushed back. Again. “A person familiar with the matter…
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US Army tests a new AI-powered robot dog — armed with a high-power rifle
The US Army has conducted tests in Saudi Arabia featuring an armed and AI-powered robot dog able to shoot down drones. The Vision 60, developed by Ghost Robotics, is equipped with a range of high-tech features designed to enhance battlefield capabilities. Primarily aimed at anti-drone operations, the Vision 60 is…
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Gemini AI starts riding shotgun on Google Maps
Google Maps is becoming more of a tour guide thanks to Google’s Gemini AI models. The AI assistant will offer suggestions for places to visit, sum up reviews, and answer your questions about locations from the Maps app on Android and iOS devices in the U.S., based on insights culled…
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iPhone sales are booming — with or without Apple Intelligence
To cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of the company’s latest…
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The shift toward carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges is revolutionizing data center connectivity, providing geographical diversity, redundancy, and flexibility to meet the increasing demands of AI, cloud services, and data-heavy applications.
New research has claimed the shift toward carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges (IXs) is revolutionizing data center connectivity, providing geographical diversity, redundancy, and flexibility to meet the increasing demands of AI, cloud services, and data-heavy applications. Over the past decade, there has been a 600% growth in the deployment of IXs in…
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