AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
Reckons it can still slug it out with Nvidia's Blackwell
AMD has decided it no longer wants to be the budget option in AI hardware and is slapping a 70 per cent price hike on its high-end Instinct MI350 AI accelerator.
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.
Quantum physics, bogus cures, and "miraculous" AI Marie
A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI.
Healthcare GenAI strategies flounder
Grand plans meet reality as data, skills and ethics block progress
While healthcare bosses dream big about GenAI, most of them appear to be clueless when it comes to putting those dreams into action.
Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.