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Startup swaps costly AI GPUs for Arm cores and up to 128TB of ‘cheap’ LPDDR6 RAM instead of expensive HBM to smash through the memory wall
Startup replaces Nvidia GPUs with custom Arm-powered AI processing hardware Prometheus packs up to 128TB of unified LPDDR6 memory onboard New server promises 1,000× more memory available per processor Majestic Labs, a startup founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server built to rival Nvidia‘s…
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China outs Nvidia-powered AS2-W quad-wheel ‘robot wolf’, just weeks after its armed version surfaced in joint military drills in Mongolia
China unveils rugged AS2-W robotic platform with advanced onboard artificial intelligence Robot wolf climbs steep slopes while carrying heavy operational payloads AS2-W combines wheeled mobility with advanced terrain handling capabilities Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled its new AS2-W, an uncrewed ground vehicle on its official website. The four-wheeled vehicle…
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Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: “That’s real money… That kind of money wasn’t even put in the railroad business” — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI demands a huge amount of energy, water, compute, and, of course, money. Big tech companies, including Google and Meta, have pledged huge sums of money toward the capital expenditure (capex) to continue the push to more powerful AI. But many inventors feel increasingly wary that this spending is simply…
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Ukraine will mass-produce Stone Cloak EW tech after the UK allows Kyiv to build a tablet-sized device
Ukraine receives rights to produce Britain’s Stone Cloak electronic warfare system Tablet-sized device helps Ukraine counter growing Russian drone operations Stone Cloak expands Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities against unmanned threats Ukraine is receiving access to the intellectual property behind the UK-developed Stone Cloak electronic warfare system. The tablet-sized device is…
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A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
ISBNdb ships up to a million books anonymously to AI labs Pre-2022 books are prized because chatbots never touched their text Spine-cutting scanners destroy originals to speed up digitization for training AI companies are increasingly turning to printed books published before 2022 as preferred training material because those works predate…
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Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts – Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world
Cloudflare summary logs a typhoon, two earthquakes, power failures, and thirteen government exam shutdowns It also identified a fiber cut, drone damage to an AWS region, and a botched DNSSEC key rollover The report’s sharpest finding is that Tanzania’s accidental power blackout looked almost identical in the data to its…
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