SambaNova CEO Points to Efficiency as AI Infrastructure Enters New Phase

Asha Sharma told employees that the company must invent new intellectual property rather than revive only existing brands.

Microsoft stopped delivering security updates for Office LTSC 2021 on the October Patch Tuesday, exposing unpatched copies to immediate risk from AI-crafted exploits.

SpaceX's latest spectrum purchase makes its mobile connectivity plans more concrete, with early signs that the approach could succeed against established carriers.

Microsoft has released WinUI Gallery 3.0, giving developers additional UI examples and early looks at upcoming APIs.

China’s memory chip maker claims a technical advance long pursued by its larger rivals, though the assertion carries no supporting evidence and briefly unsettled semiconductor shares.

Meta has released Muse Wonder, a larger AI system built for complex tasks and positioned against ChatGPT and Claude.

Meta introduces two new models built specifically for state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks.

A new feature in Excel lets users create dynamically linked visual reports from spreadsheets using Copilot.

Microsoft will expand its custom Maia silicon to multi-gigawatt scale inside Azure to support larger AI workloads.

Bloomberg’s exclusive cost analysis lays out why one Texas AI facility carries a multi-billion price tag before a single server rack is powered on.

Securing sufficient power has emerged as a primary obstacle for teams building large AI facilities.

Britain will screen advanced artificial intelligence systems before they reach the public, ending a prior arrangement that routed such checks through White House approval.

IonQ will pay as much as $1.3 billion in stock for Elisity to add cybersecurity tools aimed at AI-driven attacks and future quantum threats.

Proposals under discussion include mandatory safety incident reporting by companies and potential outright prohibitions on advanced AI models.

Andrej Karpathy’s observation that perceptions of large language model capabilities are drifting apart reached the Hacker News front page, where the thread collected 181 points and 268 comments.

Microsoft presented practical Windows 11 improvements and new Surface hardware at its event, but developer-oriented AI segments dominated the coverage.

Equity podcast debates whether greater openness on data center projects could blunt local moratoriums now slowing AI buildouts.

Xpeng claims its driver-assistance software can be adjusted for European roads with limited new data rather than a full rebuild.

Microsoft reverses years of adding Copilot features to Office by placing the complete productivity applications inside its Copilot app instead.

A personal testing series examines whether running models like Hermes and Qwen locally justifies the hardware cost and learning effort.

Candidates for Senate seats and governors’ offices are competing to present the strongest opposition to new data centers.