This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to go to CES kind of at the last minute. Over the holiday break, contacts from China kept messaging me about their travel plans. After the umpteenth “See you in…
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A British regulator said it had started a formal investigation into Mr. Musk’s chatbot over the spread of illegal images.
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Country follows Indonesia in restricting access after global outcry over X’s AI tool Malaysia has become the second country to temporarily block access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI tool after a global outcry over the chatbot and its ability to produce fake, sexualised images. Malaysia said it would restrict access to Grok until effective safeguards…
A deep dive on data transfer bottlenecks, their identification, and their resolution with the help of NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems – part 2 The post Optimizing Data Transfer in Batched AI/ML Inference Workloads appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the newsroom has compiled this annual list, which means its journalists and editors have now identified 250 technologies as breakthroughs. A few years ago, editor at large David Rotman revisited…
How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every block and intersection, every neighborhood and park, as far as you can see—covered in sheets of paper. Now…
In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed with racks of computers are springing up to fuel the AI race. These engineering marvels are a new species of infrastructure: supercomputers designed to train and run large language models at mind-bending scale, complete with their own specialized chips, cooling systems, and even energy…