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Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI
Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.
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Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair
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.
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With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
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I Saw the Future of Robotics in a Virtual Duck That Chases My Cat
An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.
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How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave
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 […]
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Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
GPT-6 Luna Leads with 88.93: 2026-11-12 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
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.
Accelerating GLM-5.3-Flash on H200: High-Throughput Disaggregated Serving
On this page1. Architecture and workloads2. Turning cache capacity into concurrencyBudgeting KV and recurrent stateKV-only decode RadixCache3. Lowering the cost of useful outputDFlash2 and speculative
XM-Sparse: Pushing the Throughput Frontier of Sparse Attention with Netpreme X-Mem™
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
Muse Spark Open Ultrafast: Pushing beyond 1,000 Tokens per second
On this pageFirst, what is a megakernel?The modelA new tensor parallelismMegakernelOne launch per layerTwelve warps, different rolesPerformanceSpeculative decodingMegakernel internals1. Prefetch weigh
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Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?
“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.
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A Startup Wants to Fight AI Bioweapons With AI
Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.
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What to know about this year’s UN climate talks
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…
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Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Indie Game Festival judges.
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The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks
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…
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Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
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Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that.
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China’s Nvidia Honeypot Isn’t Surprising. Jensen Huang Fell for It Anyway
China’s use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world’s most powerful AI executive fall for it?
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The AO3 Shutdown Is Pitting Fanfic Readers Against Authors
“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent.
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OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.