All eyes are on NVIDIA this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on NVIDIA’s latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) chips, upcoming product releases, and developments in gaming and robotics. The GTC 2025 is expected to draw some 25,000 attendees this year, more than doubling the previous year’s physical atten ..read more

While subjects such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek grab the headlines, practical applications are often subtle in their impact, take time to develop, and may get lost in the background noise. The examples provided below illustrate the growing importance of AI. They also show that human ingenuity, work, and time are required to develop important applications. TrackInspect Pilot Recently, the Rapid Innovation Team at Google Public Center and the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) released a report on “TrackInspect,” a pilot proof-of-concept program that uses AI for the early detecti ..read more

VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enabling enterprises to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI workloads at exabyte scale. When solid state drives went mainstream and NVMe over Fabric was invented nearly a decade ago, the folks who founded VAST Data–Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit, and Jeff Denworth–sensed an opportunity to rearchitect data storage for high performance computing (HPC) at the exabyte level ..read more

Intel announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a technology veteran with deep semiconductor industry experience, as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Tan was previously on Intel’s board of directors (BOD) but stepped down in August of 2024, citing “This is a personal decision based on a need to reprioritize various commitments, and I remain supportive of the company and its important work.” As part of his new position, he will rejoin the Intel BOD. Zinsner will remain exec ..read more

Retail is undergoing a massive transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. The convergence of generative AI and agentic AI is reshaping operations, enabling customized experiences, boosting productivity, and creating new revenue streams. Retailers are leveraging predictive and prescriptive AI to optimize inventory planning, enhance demand forecasting accuracy, intelligently manage inventory, and streamline supply chains. These advancements in AI are already making a significant impact across various retail functions. Here are some key areas where AI is driving transforma ..read more

As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six new AI datacenters across North America and Europe.  Expanding Access Through Hugging Face  Cerebras' partnership with Hugging Face integrates its inference capabilities into the Hugging Face Hub, making it available to the platform ..read more

Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s most powerful backers, is reportedly building its own large language models (LLMs) to compete directly with the company it has invested billions in. Internally, these LLMS are being referred to as MAI, a name that could potentially stand for “Microsoft Artificial Intelligence.”  The initiative, first reported by The Information, indicates a change in Microsoft’s AI ambitions. The tech giant may be trying to reduce its dependence on external partners, such as OpenAI, one of the leading AI companies in the world and the creator of ChatGPT.   Microsoft ha ..read more

CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases. The acquisition, which is reported by The Information to be valued at $1.7 billion, strengthens CoreWeave’s position by integrating Weights & Biases’ suite of tools for experiment tracking, model optimization, and workflow automation. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. It is expected to clo ..read more

This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face a significant threat from adversarial attacks, which can derail predictions and produce incorrect information. Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have pioneered a novel purification strategy that counteracts adversarial assaults and preserves the robust performance of neural networks ..read more

A little-known Chinese startup has created a new AI product that has gone viral. Feeling a sense of déjà vu? No, we are not talking about DeepSeek-R1, which caused major panic amongst the Western tech companies. This is a new AI agent named Manus, which is rapidly becoming the talk of the global AI community.  Named after the famous motto Mens et Manus - meaning "mind and hand"- Manus AI is being billed as a completely autonomous agent. In a YouTube video introducing the agent, Manus AI chief scientist Yichao "Peak" Ji claims the agent is “the next paradigm of human-machine collaboration ..read more