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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals, but their grand visions for the next decade and beyond […]
The Download: gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under Trump Read More »
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” the famed computer scientist Alan Kay once said. Uttered more out of exasperation than as inspiration, his remark has nevertheless attained gospel-like status among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, in particular a handful of tech billionaires who fancy themselves the chief architects of humanity’s future. Sam
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Earlier this week, two new leaders of the US Food and Drug Administration published a list of priorities for the agency. Both Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad are controversial figures in the science community. They were generally highly respected academics until the covid pandemic, when their contrarian opinions on masking, vaccines, and lockdowns turned many
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Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Days after OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership to support the growing use of generative AI platforms, much of the AI-powered web and tools went down due to an outage of
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AMD unveiled its comprehensive end-to-end integrated AI platform vision and introduced its open, scalable rack-scale AI infrastructure built on industry standards at its annual Advancing AI event. The Santa Clara, California-based chip maker announced its new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, which are four times faster on AI compute and 35 times faster on inferencing
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are now being used in its high-performance sky program by TensorWave, a chief in AMD-powered AI facilities options. TensorWave, one of the first cloud providers to commercialize the AMD Instinct MI355X, enables customers to access next-level efficiency for the most demanding AI workloads with unsurpassed white-glove support and onboarding. The new
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are being used by TensorWave’s cloud system. Read More »
AMD unveiled its comprehensive end-to-end integrated AI platform vision and introduced its open, scalable rack-scale AI infrastructure built on industry standards at its annual Advancing AI event. The Santa Clara, California-based chip maker announced its new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, which are four times faster on AI compute and 35 times faster on inferencing
AMD introduces the AMD Instinct MI350 Series pedal bits with 35X better inference. Read More »
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are now being used in its high-performance sky system by TensorWave, a market leader in AMD-powered Iot system solutions. With unparalleled white-glove training and support, TensorWave, one of the first cloud providers to commercialize the AMD Instinct MI355X, enables customers to access next-level efficiency for the most demanding AI workloads. The
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Accessible only to MIT alumnae and users. Monday, June 30, 2025 Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, a new book from AI columnist Karen Hao, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to power and its profound impact around the world. In a personal conversation about the AI arms competition, what it
Roundtables: With Karen Hao, Inside OpenAI’s Dynasty Read More »
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