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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Los Alamos Reports Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum Computing Paradigm
Aug. 15, 2023 — Los Alamost National Laboratory reported today that a potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids some of...
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AI Startup Portkey.ai Secures $3M Funding
San Francisco – August 23, 2023: Portkey.ai is today announcing a $3m seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster...
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Quantum Physicists from Quantinuum and Chubu University Team on Quantum AI and Cognition Research
Oxford and Kasugai, Japan, August 23, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Chubu University in Japan have announced a partnership, co-led by Professors...
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D-Wave Announces Performance of New Quantum Hybrid Solver
BURNABY, B.C., PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 22, 2023 — Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced an update to...
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NVIDIA Announces AI-Ready Servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo for Generative AI
August 22, 2023 — NVIDIA today announced system manufacturers will deliver AI-ready servers that support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, announced separately...
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Groq Selects Samsung Foundry
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 — AI systems company Groq today announced it has contracted with Samsung’s US-based foundry business to be its silicon partner...
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Zadara Partners with Node4 to Support Veeam BaaS Offering
IRVINE, Calif. August 21, 2023 – Edge cloud services company Zadara today announced it has partnered with Node4, a leading digital transformation and managed services...
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DOE Announces $70M in Research Training for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions
Aug. 21, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology...
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Lenovo and VMware Partner on NVIDIA-Powered Generative AI and Multi-Cloud Solutions
August 22, 2023 — Today at VMware Explore 2023, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a turnkey solution from their joint EdgeLenovo...
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Cornelis Partners with Penguin and Panasas on New HPC-AI Reference Design
WAYNE, PA. — August 22, 2023 – Cornelis Networks, a provider of high-performance networking solutions for data-intensive technical computing (HPC and AI) applications...
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DOE Announces $112M for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences
Aug. 15, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations...
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atNorth Names Erling Gudmundsson COO
Reykjavík, Iceland – August 15th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the...
From Computational Complexity
Turning Sixty
I turn sixty today, spending my birthday reviewing a computer science department in Asia. Sixty is a good time to look back and reflect in a rambling way.I started...
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HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux...
From Yoshua Bengio
Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never… L’article Personal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding UTF-8 strings to Latin 1 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Most strings online are Unicode strings in the UTF-8 format. Other systems (e.g., Java, Microsoft) might prefer UTF-16. However, Latin 1 is still a common encoding...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey: This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids...
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NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Remember Struggling to Learn?
Dave Largent, a CS professor at Ball State University, had an important reminder on his blog -Dave's not here, or is he?: Teachers need to struggle to learn (davidlargent...
From Schneier on Security