Experimental News Clipping Site

Tag: tech landscape

  • Slashdot: Meta To Spend Up To $65 Billion This Year To Power AI Goals

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/1546242/meta-to-spend-up-to-65-billion-this-year-to-power-ai-goals Source: Slashdot Title: Meta To Spend Up To $65 Billion This Year To Power AI Goals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s significant investment in AI infrastructure signals a pivotal shift in the tech landscape, with plans to construct a large data center and enhance its AI product offerings.…

  • Hacker News: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://restate.dev/blog/every-system-is-a-log-avoiding-coordination-in-distributed-applications/ Source: Hacker News Title: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the complexities of building resilient distributed applications, particularly focusing on the orchestration of logs in the context of ensuring correctness while avoiding distributed coordination. The article…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI’s Exclusive Cloud Provider

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0522224/microsoft-loses-status-as-openais-exclusive-cloud-provider Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI’s Exclusive Cloud Provider Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s evolving partnership with OpenAI, transitioning from an exclusive provider to a collaborative role with a “right of first refusal,” reflects shifts in AI infrastructure investments, particularly with the Stargate Project involving major…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…

  • The Register: Where does Microsoft’s NPU obsession leave Nvidia’s AI PC ambitions?

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/microsoft_nvidia_ai_pcs/ Source: The Register Title: Where does Microsoft’s NPU obsession leave Nvidia’s AI PC ambitions? Feedly Summary: While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren’t so…

  • Slashdot: Nvidia Reveals AI Supercomputer Used Non-Stop For Six Years To Perfect Gaming Graphics

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/1743210/nvidia-reveals-ai-supercomputer-used-non-stop-for-six-years-to-perfect-gaming-graphics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia Reveals AI Supercomputer Used Non-Stop For Six Years To Perfect Gaming Graphics Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights Nvidia’s commitment to enhancing its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology through a dedicated supercomputer. This focus on continuous analysis and model retraining is significant…

  • Slashdot: Nvidia Snaps Back at Biden’s ‘Innovation-Killing’ AI Chip Export Restrictions

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/13/1527220/nvidia-snaps-back-at-bidens-innovation-killing-ai-chip-export-restrictions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia Snaps Back at Biden’s ‘Innovation-Killing’ AI Chip Export Restrictions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The outgoing Biden administration has announced new export restrictions on AI chip technology aimed at enhancing U.S. national security and maintaining market dominance. Nvidia has criticized these measures, which are intended…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends Feedly Summary: The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here’s 2022, 2023 and 2024. This…

  • Krebs on Security: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prolific-voice-phishing-crew/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Feedly Summary: Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Plans $3 Billion AI, Cloud Investment in India

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/0952213/microsoft-plans-3-billion-ai-cloud-investment-in-india?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Plans $3 Billion AI, Cloud Investment in India Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is set to invest $3 billion in enhancing its AI and Azure services in India, aiming to boost revenue growth in one of the world’s largest markets. The initiative also includes…