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How the AI revolution is triggering a hardware arms race and pushing up prices
Look at the numbers involved in AI cloud investment and data center buildout, and the stats are astonishing. The Magnificent 7 tech companies – the biggest tech giants in the world – have collectively invested more than $100 billion in data centers and other infrastructure in the last three months alone. The majority of that…
Inside India’s Big Push To Join Global Chip Race
– Advertisement – From powering smartphones to enabling AI, semiconductors drive the modern economy, and India is racing to build a resilient chip ecosystem to join the global leaders. What lies ahead despite challenges? Semiconductors, or chips, are tiny electronic devices with millions or billions of transistors that process data and manage electric currents. Key…
The U.S. White House Releases AI Playbook: A Bold Strategy to Lead the Global AI Race
The White House just released the U.S. AI Playbook—formally titled “America’s AI Action Plan”—a sweeping, high-impact federal strategy that clarifies one thing: the United States is going all in on artificial intelligence. Whether you’re in Silicon Valley, leading a Fortune 500, or managing a critical government agency, the message is unambiguous: scale AI fast, dismantle…
Why the transceiver “arms race” is turning network engineers toward versatility
Skyrocketing data consumption The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of change in the mobile data world. Both in the United States and around the globe, data consumption is growing faster than ever before. The number of internet users continues to rise, from 5.35 billion users in 2024 to an estimated 7.9 billion…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development with its signature chatbot assistant Grok…
Chevy Silverado EV vs Rivian R1T: How two EVs handled the iconic Mint 400 off-road race | TechCrunch
Something special went down in the desert outside of Las Vegas this weekend: two EVs took on the Mint 400 for the first time. Since the Mint 400 launched back in 1969, vehicles in this iconic desert endurance race have been powered by dead dinosaurs. Spectators and race participants alike are used to the smell…
Winning the Page Speed Race
A brief history of Google’s mission to make the web faster In 2009, by issuing a call to arms to “make the web faster”, Google set out on a mission to try and persuade website owners to make their sites load more quickly. In order to entice website owners into actually caring about this, in…
How is China doing in the AI race? Tech giants and startups are pushing boundaries | DailyAI
Alibaba Cloud recently released over 100 new open-source models in its Qwen 2.5 family. These models range in size from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters and handle tasks from coding to math in 29 different languages. The company’s Tongyi model, available through the Model Studio platform, has seen its user base jump from 90,000 to…