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Startup accelerator program grows to over 30 companies, almost half of them with MIT pedigrees.

The partnership brings semiconductor experience to Musk's latest high-tech project.

The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.

Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.

Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video.

I sat down with Aaron Levie at the O’Reilly AI Codecon two weeks ago. Aaron cofounded Box in 2005, and 20 years later, his company manages content for about two-thirds of the Fortune 500. Aaron is one of the few CEOs of an incumbent enterprise software company thinking deeply in public about what AI...

Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.

In this tutorial, we implement an advanced, practical implementation of the NVIDIA Transformer Engine in Python, focusing on how mixed-precision acceleration can be explored in a realistic deep learning workflow. We set up the environment, verify GPU and CUDA readiness, attempt to install the requir...

Iran said it will target U.S.-linked data centers with new missile strikes, as the war between the U.S. and Iran escalates.

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AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to 100× while actually improving accuracy. By combining neural networks with ...

In this tutorial, we build and run an advanced pipeline for Netflix’s VOID model. We set up the environment, install all required dependencies, clone the repository, download the official base model and VOID checkpoint, and prepare the sample inputs needed for video object removal. We also make the ...

In this tutorial, we explore the full capabilities of Z.AI’s GLM-5 model and build a complete understanding of how to use it for real-world, agentic applications. We start from the fundamentals by setting up the environment using the Z.AI SDK and its OpenAI-compatible interface, and then progressive...

Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.

In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.

With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.

A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.

This week's AI image is a celebration and reflection of Good Friday. It is a provocative and sophisticated contemplation on how technology—specifically neural network AI—might mediate, preserve, and reshape the collective sacred memories of humanity.

In this tutorial, we build a complete end-to-end pipeline using NVIDIA Model Optimizer to train, prune, and fine-tune a deep learning model directly in Google Colab. We start by setting up the environment and preparing the CIFAR-10 dataset, then define a ResNet architecture and train it to establish...

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app

In this tutorial, we build a complete AgentScope workflow from the ground up and run everything in Colab. We start by wiring OpenAI through AgentScope and validating a basic model call to understand how messages and responses are handled. From there, we define custom tool functions, register them in...

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.