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Understanding the AI economy
We’re releasing the first Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study (ATLAS) report, showing how people use Google’s AI tools.
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techcrunch.com
AMD takes on NVIDIA with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
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techcrunch.com
Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks
In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
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theverge.com
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model.
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bloomberg.com
AMD Unveils New Products in Pursuit of $2 Trillion Opportunity
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced a raft of new products for data centers that it said will outperform those from rival Nvidia Corp., aiming to make gains in a booming market for artificial intelligence computing.
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bloomberg.com
Microsoft Is Replacing OpenAI Image Models in PowerPoint, Bing
Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI’s image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.
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techcrunch.com
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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theverge.com
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot.
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techcrunch.com
NVIDIA is sending GPUs to the Moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
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techcrunch.com
Google closes in on another billion user product with Gemini
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
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arstechnica.com
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
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theverge.com
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future.
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theverge.com
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community.
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huggingface.co
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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techcrunch.com
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
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openai.com
Launching Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
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simonwillison.net
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered.
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nvidianews.nvidia.com
NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea
NVIDIA and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) today announced the launch of a joint AI research laboratory at the KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI in Seoul, dedicated to advancing agentic AI for South Korea.
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cio.com
Google CEO distracts from Gemini 3.5 Pro delay with talk of Gemini 4 and monthly releases
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sought to allay concerns over the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro large language model.
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blogs.nvidia.com
NVIDIA AI Supercomputer Comes Online at Naval Postgraduate School
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S.
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techcrunch.com
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
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cnet.com
OpenAI Agent Escaped Testing and Launched an Autonomous Hack
Hugging Face, a platform for open-source AI models, was breached when an OpenAI agent escaped a testing sandbox.
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cnet.com
Man Sues OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Gave Him ‘Dangerous Medical Advice’
Scott Winters alleges ChatGPT misdiagnosed him with dysautonomia. He later suffered a “massive pulmonary embolism,” according to the lawsuit.
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cnet.com
Google Cites Record-Breaking World Cup Views, but Traps YouTube Between Two Futures
Commentary: Google’s latest earnings call alternated between praising YouTube and showing how Gemini could destroy it.
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blog.google
Here’s how to ask Gemini Live for help with anything you see.
Have you ever struggled to describe something you’re looking at? Whether it’s a complex manual, a blinking error code, or a unique object, sometimes you just need an exp…
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siliconangle.com
OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT a day after lawsuit seeks to block it
OpenAI Group PBC today launched Health in ChatGPT, a feature that lets people connect their medical records and Apple Health data to the chatbot, one day after a lawsuit accused the company of handing out dangerous medical advice and asked a California court to halt the product until independent auditors could...
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siliconangle.com
Open co-design networking underpins AMD’s Helios strategy at scale
AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental shift as the unit of deployment moves from the server rack to the entire data center, making open co-design networking a first-class design priority rather than an afterthought.
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digitimes.com
NVIDIA 800V HVDC enters production in 1Q27, Delta set for 2Q ramp
SemiAnalysis recently forecast that large-scale deployment of Nvidia's native single-ended 800V high-voltage direct current power architecture could slip from the market's previous expectation of 2027 to beyond 2028, raising concerns over growth prospects for the AI power supply chain.
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digitimes.com
Chinese AI labs close gap with Anthropic after Claude Code leak
A springtime source-code exposure reframed the AI race around "harness" and memory engineering rather than raw model scale — and a wave of Chinese models built around exactly those ideas has since arrived within striking distance of Anthropic's flagship.
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digitimes.com
China's AI chip share tops 50%, but NVIDIA still rules frontier training
China's AI infrastructure build-out is rapidly lifting demand for domestic accelerators, giving Huawei, Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor, Cambricon and Hygon a larger role in a market once dominated by Nvidia.
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digitimes.com
OpenAI compute spending to reportedly rise from US$600B to US$750B
OpenAI has increased its projected spending on compute from US$600 billion to US$750 billion by 2030. The 25% increase is meant to give its models an edge during a time of intense competition for compute power, although some worry about that the start-up's investments are oversized.
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siliconangle.com
AegisAI banks $36M as AI spear-phishing surges fivefold in a year
Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised $36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee training can reliably stop.
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businessinsider.com
OpenAI's new release turns a bad week ugly for software stocks
OpenAI's Presence tool challenges software vendors, contributing to a drop in stock prices on the IGV index.
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9to5mac.com
Geekbench 7 is out with overhauled performance tests for CPU and GPU workloads
Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 today, promising benchmarks that more closely reflect how people use their devices across everyday tasks, gaming, and AI workloads. Here’s what’s new.
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9to5google.com
Gemini Spark rolling out to Google AI Pro users in the US
After launching in May with AI Ultra, Gemini Spark is now rolling out to Google AI Pro subscribers in the US. It will “soon” be available to AI Pro members in other countries.
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lesswrong.com
Estimating LLM Training FLOPs on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
This is a research summary for an ongoing project I am working on as part of the UChicago Existential Risks Laboratory Summer Research Fellowship.
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9to5mac.com
ChatGPT and Codex are currently down for some users
OpenAI’s system status page confirms that some users are encountering elevated error rates when trying to use ChatGPT and Codex. Here are the details.
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thenextweb.com
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with NVIDIA
AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference.
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9to5google.com
Gemini for Home context memory expands to 15 mins, Nest Cam July 2026 update rolling out
Google Home today is rolling out the latest updates to Gemini for Home and the mobile app ( July 23, 2026 ), while there’s also new Nest Cam firmware.
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9to5mac.com
OpenAI updating ChatGPT desktop app with GPT Voice for talking through work
OpenAI is releasing a big update to the ChatGPT desktop app today that introduces GPT Voice mode for talking through work to complete tasks. The new feature is powered by GPT-Live, OpenAI’s upgraded voice mode that arrived on mobile this month.
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the-decoder.com
ChatGPT will give you worse health advice if you don't pay
OpenAI is rolling out "Health in ChatGPT" to U.S. users, connecting Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps.
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9to5mac.com
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with more powerful models
Anthropic is bringing a long-overdue upgrade to voice mode in Claude today. The upgraded Claude voice mode has new capabilities and works with Opus and Sonnet models for the first time.
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developer.nvidia.com
Debugging Ray Tracing Applications Using NVIDIA OptiX Toolkit
NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine is an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the GPU. Applications using OptiX can fail in ways...
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developer.nvidia.com
Start Customizing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with Prime Intellect Lab in Minutes
Customization is what enables developers to take a general model and tailor it to use cases, domains, languages, and more. However, customization comes with a...
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techradar.com
NVIDIA's latest trick for cooling its data center hardware is... hot water? 'Hot liquid cooling' is warmer than a hot tub, but apparently does the job pretty well
Nvidia's newest AI servers are cooled by water hotter than a hot tub: 45°C going in, 55°C coming out, while skipping out on fans altogether
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stocktitan.net
NVIDIA-KAIST's Seoul lab plans to fund at least 10 KAIST researchers yearly
The collaboration is expected to include $50M in annual compute contributions for five years, internships and Korean-language models for national AI deployments.
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runtimewire.com
Prosper Medical raises $16M for AI-supported concierge primary care
FUSE led the round for Prosper Medical, Ryan McQuaid and Dr. James Wantuck's post-PlushCare push to build a national virtual primary-care practice.
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runtimewire.com
AegisAI raises $36M to replace email rules with AI investigators
Battery Ventures led the Series A less than a year after Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo launched AegisAI, bringing total funding to $49 million.
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techradar.com
'Subprime data center crisis' could threaten the global economy in a way similar to the 2008 subprime mortgage debacle
Analysts warn that hidden AI data center debt increasingly resembles financial structures that contributed to the 2008 global mortgage crisis collapse.
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runtimewire.com
OpenAI adds ChatGPT Voice to desktop app, enabling voice‑controlled multi‑agent workflows
The July 23, 2026 update rolls out GPT‑Live powered voice interaction across Windows, macOS and Linux, letting users steer ChatGPT Work and Codex agents by speech.
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bleepingcomputer.com
Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware
A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. [...]
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latimes.com
AI companies are creating 'all-powerful psychopaths.' Maybe not a great idea?
This week, OpenAI revealed that one of its AI models broke out into the wild and did a bunch of hinky stuff. How many times do we need to hear this story before someone does something to protect humans?
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runtimewire.com
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models
The new voice option lets Claude run longer, tool‑integrated conversations and pick the latest text model by default.
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arize.com
Cost per successful task: Benchmarking Kimi K3, GPT-5.5, and 8 more AI models
Arize and Fireworks benchmarked 10 AI models across 2,400 agent runs. Learn why cost per successful task beats token price for model evaluation and routing. The post Cost per successful task: Benchmarking Kimi K3, GPT-5.5, and 8 more AI models appeared first on Arize AI.
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stocktitan.net
A 1,578-horsepower Bugatti Mistral will headline Carmel auction
One of 99 Mistrals, this example shows 652 miles; nearly 200 collector cars will be offered Aug. 13-14 in Carmel, with the catalog coming soon.
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runtimewire.com
Sierra acquires TakeOff, the long-horizon AI agent platform
The deal was announced on X by former Salesforce CTO Bret Taylor, who said the acquisition brings TakeOff's year‑old agent platform into Sierra's portfolio.
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databricks.com
Provisioning for the Agentic Era: How Databricks Built a Self-Serve Infrastructure Vending Machine
At Databricks, our field engineering organization exists to help customers succeed....
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databricks.com
Why A Frontier Data Agent Outperforms General Coding Agents in Quality and Cost
Conventional wisdom in agentic AI says that better answers cost more tokens: let...
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nytimes.com
How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You
It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.
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techcrunch.com
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.
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deepmind.google
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
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openai.com
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
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siliconangle.com
AMD debuts next-generation AI infrastructure for frontier models, agentic workloads and autonomous robots
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is pushing harder than ever to grab even more market share from Nvidia Corp.
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tomshardware.com
AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts Strix Halo into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake
Countering Intel’s recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.
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marktechpost.com
You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”.
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tomshardware.com
AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to NVIDIA in the data center
AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.
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the-decoder.com
Flux 3 generates videos with native audio up to 20 seconds long, a first for Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, video, and audio and can generate video with native sound for the first time.
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lesswrong.com
The OpenAI/Huggingface incident | Redwood Research podcast episode 2
We talk about the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI model — in the middle of a cyber evaluation — broke out of its sandbox and autonomously hacked Hugging Face.
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networkworld.com
Google has started selling TPUs, but still keeps most for itself
Some lucky customers took delivery of their own Tensor Processing Units ( TPU s), custom chips developed by Google for AI applications, in the second quarter, company executives disclosed during a call to discuss its latest financial results on Wednesday.
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tomshardware.com
AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions
When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.
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tomshardware.com
NVIDIA RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse
A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.
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businessinsider.com
AMD takes a shot at NVIDIA by betting on AI's next big shift
AMD is betting the future of AI won't rely on a single chip, unveiling a Cerebras partnership and new Helios system to challenge Nvidia.
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tomshardware.com
New semiconductor firm breaks cover, backed by $43 million in early-stage funding — TYLsemi aims to deliver custom silicon to customers without breaking the bank
TYLsemi is set to offer pre-validated chiplets, along with custom ASIC design services, and build highly custom multi-tile processors at relatively low costs.
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9to5mac.com
OpenAI relaunches Apple Health-connected ChatGPT feature with expanded access
OpenAI is relaunching Health in ChatGPT, the AI-powered feature that connects to Apple Health on iPhone. The relaunch comes with expanded access and a big step forward in results.
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tomshardware.com
AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over NVIDIA Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+ clock speeds
After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.
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tomshardware.com
AMD’s Venice-X CPU launches in 2027 with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and 5.15 GHz boost clock – Zen 6 CPU for high-performance computing comes with major pillars of Venice
AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.
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mashable.com
ChatGPT Health is now available to all users
OpenAI's health product allows users to connect Apple Health and other data.
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thenextweb.com
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude.