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Rampant AI demand for memory is fueling a growing chip crisis
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (1182+ words) A growing procession of tech industry leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail corporate plans and inflate price tags on…...
I'm Cloudera's chief strategy officer and here's why your $1 billion AI budget just became obsolete
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (364+ words) Ultimately, the defining characteristic of AI 2.0 isn't scale, it's restraint. We are moving toward AI systems that know when to stop thinking. These are models engineered for precision, cost efficiency, and sound reasoning rather than endless computation. AI 1.0 was built…...
Hey Alexa—Amazon may be teaming up with OpenAI. Here’s why that matters
1+ week, 3+ day ago (813+ words) Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition'Meta's giant Hyperion data center gets even bigger'OpenAI and Amazon talk about an alliance'Is the AI bubble popping because AI is actually working?'AI makes inroads at the…...
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1+ mon, 3+ day ago (15+ words) Consumer Champion Releases Rankings of the Top 5 VHS-to-Digital Conversion Services for 2026Fortune...
China reportedly tells tech firms to pause Nvidia H200 orders
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (862+ words) Good morning. There's been a recurring theme to some of the AI conversations I've had this week: using the technology to find things in sprawling corporations. For all that agentic AI promises for the future, several executives told me that…...
Want AI agents to work better? Improve the way they retrieve information, Databricks says
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (350+ words) The idea of the Instructed Retriever architecture is that it turns these implied conditions into explicit search parameters. Bendersky says the breakthrough here is that Instructed Retriever knows how to turn a natural language query into one that will leverage…...
Nvidia rolls out its latest, greatest AI chip platform
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (635+ words) The gadget news is coming in fast and furious this week, so charge your batteries and read on. "Andrew Nusca Want to send thoughts or suggestions to'Fortune Tech?'Drop a line'here. The world's most valuable company kicked off CES on…...
Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Fortune 500 since 2022
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1337+ words) The job posts don't immediately raise alarms, even though they're clearly not for tutoring or babysitting. Zach Edwards, senior threat researcher at Silent Push, said the structure is a classic one, in which young people do most of the dangerous…...
Trump Mobile says its first-ever smartphone is delayed, and the government shutdown is to blame
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (204+ words) Trump Mobile, the wireless venture backed by the Trump Organization, has postponed delivery of its long-promised gold-colored T1 smartphone beyond the end of the year, blaming the latest U.S. government shutdown for the delay. The move extends a months-long slide in its…...
Nvidia’s Groq bet shows that the economics of AI chip-building are still unsettled
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (519+ words) Nvidia built its AI empire on GPUs. But its $20 billion bet on Groq suggests the company isn't convinced GPUs alone will dominate the most important phase of AI yet: running models at scale, known as inference." That pressure is exactly…...