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AMD has attempted to solve its most persistent competitive problem, the CUDA ecosystem gap, by turning the AI models themselves into the bridge. At its Advancing AI event in San Francisco, the company unveiled ROCm.AI, a platform that uses frontier large language models to automatically deploy, debug, and optimize AI models on AMD’s Instinct hardware, […]

The semiconductor industry’s least visible bottleneck is in Oberkochen, a town in southern Germany where Carl Zeiss SMT manufactures the optical systems that go into every ASML extreme ultraviolet lithography scanner. Without Zeiss’s mirrors and lenses, among the most precisely manufactured objects in existence, ASML cannot ship a single EUV machine. For the past several […]

The question of whether workers need AI skills has shifted from a matter of career optionality to one of baseline employability. A growing body of employer surveys and labor market data indicates that organizations across industries, not just technology companies, now expect candidates to demonstrate at least a working familiarity with AI tools and concepts. […]

The standard laptop charger block has been shrinking for years, but Ugreen’s latest entry in the GaN charging category pushes the form factor further than most. The 100W Mini Ice GaN charger, model X876, measures 90.2 by 55.6 by 18.2 mm, roughly the dimensions of a thick credit card, and weighs 178 grams (about 6.3 […]

Airbus has taken the next step in its electrification roadmap with the launch of the Large Scale Integration Demonstrator of Hybrid Electrical Architecture, known as LEIA. Announced at the Farnborough International Airshow, the project brings together 25 industrial and research partners from across the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States to validate […]

When Microsoft released four original Xbox games on PC last week, BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Fuzion Frenzy, the company framed the move as a modest expansion of backward compatibility. The games were available on Game Pass, and the technical underpinnings were not discussed. Within […]

When Vladimir Putin told a gathering this week that “whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world,” he was not describing a distant future. He was describing the race that is already underway. The Russian president’s latest statement on artificial intelligence is part of a consistent theme that runs […]

Apple’s entry into the budget laptop market with the MacBook Neo earlier this year has been a commercial success, perhaps more than the company anticipated. Reports in April indicated that demand had outstripped initial production plans, with Apple entering discussions with suppliers to boost output. The device, priced at roughly US$589 (approximately £554), gave students […]

As enterprises move beyond chatbot pilots and begin deploying AI agents that independently execute tasks, manage workflows, and interact with internal systems, a new skills taxonomy is taking shape. Technology leaders across sectors, from energy to asset management to professional services, are converging on a framework that identifies three distinct roles as critical for the […]

In 2024, computational social scientist Philipp Lorenz-Spreen set out to study how European politicians communicate online and how much divisive language they use. The European Union’s Digital Services Act, which took full effect in February 2024, gave him a legal right to ask for the data he needed from TikTok, X, Facebook, and Instagram. What […]