8/7: OpenAI Delays Astra - Plus: Trump says AI will be bigger than the internet, Anthropic weakens Fable 5 bio safeguards, ByteDance 10T model, USG on China's chip access, SK Hynix new fabs, AMD acquires Taalas
Why Sensor Accuracy Can't Be Assumed - Wireless vibration sensors have changed industrial maintenance for the better. But an industry-wide challenge remains: measurement integrity.
OpenAI Plans Doughnut-Shaped Smart Speaker - ChatGPT developer reportedly working on circular, battery-powered smart speaker with moving parts and human-like personality, amid Apple lawsuit
Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets - A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor's agent in the configuration...
8/6: Cyber Risk and Bio Risk - Arc Institute AI makes a novel virus, and OpenAI releases more on the Hugging Face incident. Plus: DeepSeek raises, Unitree to IPO, Monolith Management, Hadrian raises, Oklo criticality
Designing Partnership: How Conductor Works With You, Not For You - What separates a tool you operate from a collaborator you work with lies in the design. That principle is at the heart of Cresta Conductor, our developer-first environment for building, testing, and refining AI agents, which we launched in June.
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: what IT leaders need to know - Blockchain is often reduced to cryptocurrency headlines, but the technology has far broader enterprise potential. Here is what IT leaders should understand about how blockchain works, the main network models, and the infrastructure requirements behind secure, resilient blockchain systems.
Topics: Data Center • Fear of AI Bubble Could Pop The Bubble - I have been paying attention to the nationwide AI data center moratoriums for more than a hot minute. I called out this risk in my 2025 annual letter. Our team (as in me and Claude) started tracking local moratoriums and built a public dashboard.
A 10M IOPS Kioxia GP1 SSD Shown Running at FMS 2026 - At FMS 2026, we saw the Kioxia GP1 PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD running live in the company's booth at just over 10M IOPS The post A 10M IOPS Kioxia GP1 SSD Shown Running at FMS 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome .
8/5: Google DeepMind Reorgs - Demis out as GDM CEO, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Muse Spark 1.2, Meta models hack, Anthropic chip design, ByteDance doesn't distill, Nikita leaves X
Training speculative decoders: removing the logits and attention bottlenecks - Training speculative decoding draft heads at scale introduces two bottlenecks: the memory cost of the language-modeling loss and the attention pattern used by EAGLE-style draft heads. In this article, we show how Streaming Cross Entropy removes the vocabulary-logits bottleneck and block-sparse FlashAttention...
AMD to Acquire Taalas for Model Specific AI Inference Chips - AMD announced that it will acquire Taalas to build future model-specific AI inference chips that are purpose built to accelerate single models The post AMD to Acquire Taalas for Model Specific AI Inference Chips appeared first on ServeTheHome .
How AI-enabled execution became Reckitt’s ‘tenfold game changer’ - RGMx helped Reckitt improve pricing, promotions, and assortment. Smart Execution helps those choices land at the point of sale by using AI and data to strengthen product availability and retailer partnerships.
GeForce NOW Shakes Up August With 26 New Games - August is here, bringing 26 new games for GeForce NOW members. Command the seas in World of Warships: Legends and discover what’s next in the GeForce NOW library, starting with the eight newly added games this week. In addition, GeForce NOW is at the QuakeCon gaming conference this week in Grapevine,...
U.S. Manufacturing Activity Hits Four-Year High in July - In July, U.S. manufacturing activity remained in expansion territory, growing at its fastest pace in more than four years. The post U.S. Manufacturing Activity Hits Four-Year High in July appeared first on EE Times .
Meta chases OpenAI, Anthropic with new AI coding app - Meta entered the race for automated coding tools Wednesday when it announced a new app for developers of artificial intelligence products, competing with other major AI labs for customers and revenue.
Samsung Lays Out AI Memory Roadmap - Samsung bets on zHBM and zNAND-O to smash AI’s memory wall, promising 8× HBM5 performance and 3D stacks. The post Samsung Lays Out AI Memory Roadmap appeared first on EE Times .
