The state of AI in 2025: the road ahead
The first few months of the new year have already proven transformative for the AI sector, with rapid advancements reshaping the industry landscape. As we close out the first quarter…
Google rumored to be looking to rent latest Nvidia AI GPU from CoreWeave because it doesn’t have enough of them
Report comes as Microsoft has apparently declined to take more AI resources from billion-dollar AI startup Google has already pledged to invest tens of billions in capital expenditure in FY…
‘Catastrophic overtraining’ could harm large language AI models that are trained on more data for the sake of training
Researchers from top US universities warn extending pre-training can be detrimental to performance Too much pre-training can deliver worse performance due to something akin to the butterfly effect The more…
It’s broadband, Jim, but not as we know it: Japanese tech giants are developing a broadband optical SSD for data centers
Broadband Optical SSDs may be key to development of town-sized mega data centers Opting for optical SSDs allow distance between compute and storage to grow far more The other advantage…
Mark Zuckerberg allegedly offered US data to China in bid to enter market, ex-Meta exec tells Senate
Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook, spoke in front of the US Senate She said Facebook offered data on US citizens to the Chinese Communist Party in…
It’s alive! IBM unveils its most powerful mainframe yet, which it says is fully engineered for the AI Age
IBM’s fastest mainframe computer to date has a Telum II CPU with on-chip AI coprocessor There is also an AI accelerator that it hopes will make it an attractive option…
China admits behind closed doors it was involved in Volt Typhoon attacks
In a December 2024 meeting, China privately took responsibility for cyber offensives These include attacks on US infrastructure, like communications and energy The state warned that US increasing support for…
Oracle says “obsolete servers” hacked, denies cloud breach
Oracle started sending out data breach notification letters In the letters, it downplays the significance of the attacks Not everyone agrees with that assessment We now have confirmation that Oracle…
Russian hackers hit military mission in Ukraine with info-stealing malware on external drives
Symantec says it found GammaSteel on devices belonging to a military operation in Ukraine GammaSteel is an infostealer built by Russian cyber-outfit Gamaredon Gamaredon is one of many groups on…
Amazon may be about to spend $15 billion on new US warehouses
Amazon wants to add 80 new sites to its existing 600 US facilities The plans could cost the company an estimated $15 billion Trump’s tariffs have impacted certain orders Amazon…