CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure […]
Claris, an Apple subsidiary, is internally testing Harbor, a Mac app that turns Apple Silicon machines into private AI inference servers with local model management and multi-Mac clustering via Thunderbolt 5 RDMA. The early-access product targets businesses and developers, while pricing and launch plans remain undisclosed.
A solo researcher used 48 AI agents to scan NASA LiDAR data and flag a suspected Maya site to Mexico’s INAH within 72 hours, only to find that the site had already been documented in a 2025 paper the agents missed. The episode highlights both the power and the limits of AI agents in scientific discovery.
Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy.
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure […]
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
The 2026-11-12 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-6 Luna taking first place for the day at 88.93. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and it is not equivalent to the conclusions of the weekly Full leaderboard.
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On this pageTL;DRWhy Sparse Attention Needs a Fast, High-Capacity Memory TierModeling Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks128K: KV I/O Bandwidth and External Memory Capacity BottlenecksShort- and Long-C
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“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.
It’s that time of year again: Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists are gathered for the annual UN climate talks, taking place this time in Antalya, Turkey. COP31 officially kicked off on November 8, marking the beginning of negotiations on one of the biggest stages of the climate world. Turkey and Australia are cohosting this…
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Indie Game Festival judges.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still…
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
