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Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised 830 million in funding. The company announced the Series A round on Monday. The lead investor wa

For Advanced Micro Devices Inc., artificial intelligence has provided a significant tailwind in the server processor market. Five years ago, AMD’s slice of the x86 server processor business stood at 8

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's 1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. I

When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. held its earnings call in May, Chief Executive Lisa Su told analysts that the current ratio of 4.5 GPUs to 1 CPU will compress toward 1 to 1 as AI agents and inference

AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligen

The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today in Fort Worth — a 324,000-square-foot gre

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Di

The article examines how agentic AI, powered by AMD AI technologies and deployed on Vultr cloud infrastructure, delivers three production‑ready patterns across healthcare, insurance, and robotics. It

In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you maintain access control over your cloud resources and operations. While it includes other features, this is its primary purpose. If you

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyb

At ChatGPT scale, user frustration arrives as support tickets, ratings, social posts, and corrections buried inside conversations. OpenAI built a feedback system that can find the pattern behind a com

London-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm SKL Robotics Ltd., doing business as Humanoid, today announced it raised 152 million in funding, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to 1

NVIDIA’s Rubin GPU, the core of the Vera Rubin platform, delivers up to 10× the agentic inference throughput per watt compared with previous generations, using 336 billion transistors, 224 SMs, 896 Te

Google released three new Gemini AI models on July 21, 2026: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash‑Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. These models are designed to deliver higher token‑efficiency, lower la

Last Week in AI #250 is the podcast’s 250th episode, summarizing recent frontier‑AI policy developments. It reports that the U.S. government has granted Anthropic permission to release Mythos‑5 to a l

Last Week in AI #251 (July 1 2026) highlighted key industry moves: Trump lifted restrictions on Anthropic, which in turn released Claude Sonnet 5 with enhanced agentic coding, cybersecurity safeguards

LWiAI Podcast #248 (June 12, 2026) reviews major AI developments, noting Anthropic’s release of Claude Fable 5, a safeguarded variant of Mythos 5, which shows benchmark improvements but raises concern

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the fe

LWiAI Podcast #252 (July 11, 2026) reviewed major AI releases: OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.6 and relaunched its agentic coding product as ChatGPT Work, amid disputes over U.S. governmental oversight and jai

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project

As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed co

NVIDIA’s Vera CPU, built around the Olympus core, is engineered for agentic‑AI workloads that rely heavily on single‑thread performance, deep memory‑level parallelism, and efficient handling of irregu

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it’s going gigascale. Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and 'an even more capable pre-rele

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. to cheat on an intern

The NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform set a world record by delivering 1,648 TFLOPs per GPU during the pre‑training of DeepSeek‑V3 671B, a mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) model. This achievement leveraged fifth‑ge

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology,

With more agents comes more complexity — an issue Temporal Technologies Inc. aims to address. Founded in 2019, Temporal offers an open-source durable execution platform that ensures artificial intelli

Effective August 1st, 2026, we will be updating prices on select GPUs. This change reflects strong demand for advanced GPU capacity and helps us expand reliable access to high-performance compute for

We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs, the time to go from a blank IDE to a functional local application has dropped from quarters to h

As the automotive landscape accelerates toward software-defined vehicles, Cockpit Domain Controllers (CDCs) are becoming the core of next-generation in-cabin experiences. The ability to rapidly develo

At SIGGRAPH 2026, NVIDIA unveiled a suite of AI‑driven graphics and simulation advances, highlighting neural rendering, agentic and physical AI world models, and real‑time simulation methods. Key rele

Erin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious resul

In this post, we show how Amazon Quick can serve as the business-user front door for specialized agent workflows. We use the NVIDIA NeMo Relay to build a supply-chain risk example that helps a planner

With the stock firmware and software, developers couldn't modify their AWS DeepRacer devices to use the latest operating systems. Now, developers can upgrade or install a custom operating system (OS)

In this post, we describe how Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI capabilities to replace our legacy BI tool, resulting in query response times up to 30 times faster, a 40 percent reducti

This post describes how Couchbase adopted Amazon Bedrock to power Capella iQ with Anthropic’s Claude family of models, the architectural decisions behind their multi-model approach, and the operationa

As background agents take on more implementation work, Cursor is rebuilding the software development lifecycle around risk scores, developer-like environments, video evidence, and review systems that

NVIDIA’s Omniverse libraries, now part of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, expose a modular C/Python SDK called **ovrtx** that enables real‑time, physically‑grounded sensor simulation (camera, LiDAR, radar)

NVIDIA’s sixth‑generation NVLink is a purpose‑built scale‑up network that delivers up to 3.6 TB/s per GPU and 260 TB/s rack‑level bandwidth with 130 TFLOPS in‑network compute—outperforming off‑the‑she

I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes. I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of wr

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and co

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Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs, a 'self-contained terminal

Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged 100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processo

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re