Ma slams Musk on AI
AI will not harm you
Alibaba’s Jack Ma faced off against Elon Musk on a debate on AI with Ma saying that artificial intelligence was no threat to humanity, and Musk calling it "famous last words".
Intel releases its first AI chip
Never mind that Nervana smells like a 10 nanometer Ice Lake processor
Intel unveiled its latest processor that will be its first using artificial intelligence (AI) and is designed for large computing centres.
Largest AI chip ever built
1.2 trillion transistors
New artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built.
Duke of Edinburgh AI developed
This AI code "looks like it has been made by an Indian"
An Indian based company has been flogging an AI-assisted app development platform which does not use AI and is powered by Indians. The Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, once famously said: “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian”, pointing to an old fashioned fuse box on a factory trip to Edinburgh.
TSMC jumps in to save Moore’s Law
2500 mm2 interposer and 5nm N5P EUV to the rescue
Usually, it is Intel which talks about Moore’s Law, but this time our long-time industry friend Godfrey Cheng at TSMC talked about potential and the future of the world’s finest manufacturing facility.
AI pioneer mate of Jeffrey Epstein
Alleged to have had forced sex with one of Epstein's victims
A victim of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was forced to have sex with MIT professor Marvin Minsky.
Xilinx Alveo U50 adaptable compute is out
Wins against Xeon and Tesla
Xilinx has a data center first strategy that Victor Peng and his team are executing flawlessly so far, and part of that plan is to launch an adaptable compute, network and storage card and call it Alveo U50.
AIs should be allowed their names on patents
If they invented it
A team of boffins said that an artificial intelligence system should be recognised as the inventor of two ideas in patents filed on its behalf.
AI is a computer power bugbear
Keeps Facebook’s AI expert awake at night
Facebook's AI initiatives, VP Jerome Pesenti (left) has warned that AI demands an increasing amount of compute power and it is keeping him awake at night worrying about it.
Aussie AI designs a “turbocharged” flu vaccine
To be trailed in the US
An Aussie AI has designed a “turbocharged” flu vaccine which is about to be trialled in the United States.