ChatGPT Health has arrived
ChatGPT Health has arrived

I’ve said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the time, they are mirrors. They reflect people’s habits, shortcuts, fears, and small daily behaviours. Design follows behaviour. Always has. Think about i…

Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia’s physical AI platform.

Who decides the best AI?
Who decides the best AI?

The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and every new release arrives with a list of metrics meant to signal progress. And yet, somewhere between the lab and real life, something keeps slipping. Whic…

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. I am writing this because one of my editors woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled on a bedside notepad: “What is a…

AMD unwraps Instinct MI500 boasting 1,000X more performance versus MI300X — setting the stage for the era of YottaFLOPS data centers

AMD announces CDNA 6-based Instinct MI500-series GPUs with HBM4E memory set to arrive in 2027 and offer 1000X higher performance compared to Instinct MI300X.

UK AI firm Faculty to be acquired by consulting giant Accenture

A UK AI firm that advises OpenAI and other frontier AI models on AI safety is to be acquired by IT consulting giant Accenture.Faculty, which also worked with Vote Leave on the Brexit referendum, was c…

Nvidia CEO confirms Vera Rubin NVL72 is now in production — Jensen Huang uses CES keynote to announce the milestone

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced during his keynote speech at CES that Vera Rubin NVL72 is now officially in production. The new datacenter AI platform offers up to 5x the performance of Blackwell counterparts.

Why AI predictions are so hard

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Sometimes AI feels like a niche topic to write about, but then the holidays happen, and I hear relatives of all ages talking about cases of chatbot-induced psychosis, blaming rising electricity prices…

The stylish Vocci smart ring wants to archive your life, one audio clip at a time 

Vocci’s water-resistant smart ring is made from hypoallergenic titanium, supports transcription in 112 languages, and can last up to 8 hours per charge.
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AMD touts Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X AI accelerators and Helios rack-scale AI architecture at CES — full MI400-series family fulfills a broad range of infrastructure and customer requirements

AMD reveals additional details about its strategy for AI and HPC deployments this year with EPYC ‘Venice’ and ‘Venice-X’ CPUs as well as Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X accelerators.