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Sandia National Laboratories announced today a new speed record in molecular dynamics simulation. A collaborative research team ran simulations using the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) processor and “raced past the maximum…
October 3, 2024 — Submer announced an investment round of $55.5 million USD, led by M&G, an investment company with £346.1 billion assets under management as of June 2024. The investment comes from its £5 billion purpose-led …
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Oct. 3, 2024 – Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) today announced the acquisition of Mikros Technologies LLC, an engineering and manufacturing company focused on of liquid cooling solutions for thermal management, …
Oct. 3, 2024 — Power management company Eaton today announced the North American launch of its Eaton Heavy-Duty SmartRack enclosures, designed to help data center operators and IT managers accommodate the increasing physical …
Hackers can execute commands on a remote computer by sending malformed emails to a Zimbra mail server. It’s critical, but difficult to exploit.
In an email sent Wednesday afternoon, Proofpoint researcher Greg Lesnewich seemed…SAN FRANCISCO — HPC-AI Tech, a AI startup specializing in AI software infrastructure and video generation, has secured a $50 million Series A funding round. Investors include Singtel Innov8, Sinovation Ventures, Capstone Capital…
Sunnyvale, CA, September 27, 2024 – SimOps announced the launch of its Simulation Operations Automation initiative, a category the company said is poised to redefine how organizations manage and optimize their engineering simulations…
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 1, 2024 – Data intelligence platform DDN announced an expansion of its AI research and innovation efforts in Texas. This initiative is intended to power transformative advancements in sectors like healthcare…
Who thought the algorithm behind machine learning would have cool complexity implications?
John Fearnley, Paul Goldberg, Alexandros Hollender and Rahul Savani…Governor Newsom has vetoed the state’s AI safety bill.
I have mixed feelings about the bill. There’s a lot to like about it, and I want governments to regulate in this space. But, for now, it’s all EU.
(Related, the Council of…Research by the Dutch Media Authority shows that 78% of Dutch youth get their news mainly from social media, in particular Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, reports Wilfred Takken in the Dutch NRC newspaper today. The research…
AI data platform company VAST Data today announced VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, which the company said is the first solution to securely ingest, process, and retrieve all types of enterprise data (files, objects, tables, and…
ST. PAUL, MN, Oct. 1, 2024—HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced the results of their recently completed AI in the Cloud study, entitled, Cloud-based AI Activity for HPC: Widespread but Primarily Exploratory…
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Scaling GenAI inference performance requires increasing the number of GPUs or accelerators working in parallel within the scale-up domain. In-package optical I/O offers a path forward by breaking the…
Oct. 1, 2024 — IBM announced the availability of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU instances on IBM Cloud. It joins IBM Cloud’s existing lineup of accelerated computing offerings for enterprise’s AI implementation. IBM said that despite…
This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher found that he could use that …