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  • The Register: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/cadence_systems_adds_nvidias_biggest/ Source: The Register Title: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim Feedly Summary: Using GPUs to design better bit barns for GPUs? It’s the circle of AI With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing…

  • Cloud Blog: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/googles-approach-to-carbon-aware-data-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management Feedly Summary: Data centers are the engines of the cloud, processing and storing the information that powers our daily lives. As digital services grow, so do our data centers and we are working to responsibly manage them.…

  • The Register: Nvidia’s context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/nvidia_rubin_cpx/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable Feedly Summary: Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn’t benefit from the bandwidth? Analysis Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled the Rubin CPX, a GPU designed specifically to accelerate extremely long-context AI workflows like those seen in code assistants such…

  • Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/09/reading-the-gentle-singularity-through-a-sustainability-lens.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens Feedly Summary: Sam Altman says AI will cost as little as electricity—but what’s the real environmental impact of billions of queries a day? In this post I dig into the numbers from the blog post “The Gentle Singularity" and compare…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • AWS News Blog: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-new-zealand-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Feedly Summary: AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Piloting Claude for Chrome

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/26/piloting-claude-for-chrome/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Piloting Claude for Chrome Feedly Summary: Piloting Claude for Chrome Two days ago I said: I strongly expect that the entire concept of an agentic browser extension is fatally flawed and cannot be built safely. Today Anthropic announced their own take on this pattern, implemented as an…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/gemini-cloud-assist-investigations-performs-root-cause-analysis/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis Feedly Summary: Debugging in a complex, distributed cloud environment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. The sheer volume of data, intertwined dependencies, and ephemeral issues make traditional troubleshooting methods time-consuming and often reactive.…