How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI  | TechCrunch

How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI  | TechCrunch

From tech giants to startups, South Korean players are developing large language models tailored to their own language and culture, ready to compete with global heavyweights like OpenAI and Google.  Last month, the nation launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative to date, pledging ₩530 billion, (about $390 million), to five local companies building large-scale…

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Nvidia outlines plans for using light for communication between AI GPUs by 2026 — silicon photonics and co-packaged optics may become mandatory for next-gen AI data centers

Nvidia outlines plans for using light for communication between AI GPUs by 2026 — silicon photonics and co-packaged optics may become mandatory for next-gen AI data centers

The extreme demands of passing communication between ever-growing clusters of AI GPUs is fueling a move towards using light for communication across the networking layers. Earlier this year, Nvidia outlined that its next-generation rack-scale AI platforms will use silicon photonics interconnects with co-packaged optics (CPO) for higher transfer rates at lower power. At the Hot…

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TSMC’s quarterly sales hit a record  billion — contract chipmaker plans over 15 new fabs to meet still-growing AI demand

TSMC’s quarterly sales hit a record $30 billion — contract chipmaker plans over 15 new fabs to meet still-growing AI demand

TSMC on Thursday reported its strongest quarter ever, posting a revenue of $30 billion for the second quarter of 2025, citing strong demand for AI processors. The foundry expects demand for AI applications to grow in the coming years, so it is plotting a rather unprecedented expansion plan that involves building 15 new fabs over…

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Red Hat, HashiCorp reveal Ansible, Terraform and Vault plans | TechTarget

Red Hat, HashiCorp reveal Ansible, Terraform and Vault plans | TechTarget

BOSTON — Now that Red Hat and HashiCorp both reside under the IBM roof, Ansible, Terraform and HashiCorp Vault will get cozier, according to executives speaking publicly this week. Ansible’s configuration-as-code and HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools were commonly used together before IBM agreed to buy HashiCorp last year for $6.5 billion, a deal…

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