The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy…
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits behind its data-centre chips. The agreement, announced …
AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, t…
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first …
The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a si…
Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in ad…
AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall…
The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvi…
Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …