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Xsight Labs has announced the E1L, a programmable data processing unit designed to bring networking, storage and security offload to power-constrained systems. Its key promise is a shared software stack spanning a low-power edge device and the company’s faster data-centre DPU, though the E1L is not expected to…
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Heathrow is extending its partnership with Adobe to personalise passenger information across its website and AI-powered search. The deal puts AI-assisted content management and visibility tools behind a website used by more than 50 million people a year, as the airport looks to reach travellers wherever they seek…
TSMC Watch
TSMC’s 15 October earnings call is approaching with analysts looking for clues about how AI demand will affect chip production, packaging capacity and future spending. One analyst cited by BigGo Finance expects TSMC’s AI revenue growth to nearly double next year, while forecasting more than 40% revenue growth…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia is planning to invest in d-Matrix, a startup building chips for AI inference, according to a report by The Information cited by Data Center Dynamics. The reported move would tie Nvidia more closely to a maker of rival accelerator designs, as the fight over how AI workloads…
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GitHub is redesigning its Git storage to handle rising traffic, including a surge linked to AI coding agents. The Register reports that early internal tests showed a 35-fold improvement in write performance, though GitHub has not given a migration timeline.
AMD Watch
AI agents are bringing CPUs back into the centre of the data-centre debate, and AMD has become one of the clearest beneficiaries in the market’s eyes. BigGo Finance reports that AMD first passed a $1 trillion market value on 21 September, amid a surge in expectations for the…
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Ferrari chairman John Elkann says an AI market correction would not stop the technology’s long-term progress, while warning that the gap between heavy investment and uncertain business revenues could create risks. His comments put a useful question beneath the AI boom: who can turn all that infrastructure into…
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DuckDB’s command-line interface is getting an agent mode that trims the output AI coding assistants have to read. The project says experiments found it reduced model-read output by 59% while preserving correct query answers, a practical change for developers using agents with databases.
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AI workloads are putting new demands on networks, while AI tools are also being used to manage those networks. Cisco technical marketing director Kshitij Mahant argues that companies should plan both sides together, rather than leave their teams to compare notes once a quarter.
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A Fortune opinion piece challenges Sam Altman’s call to imagine AI as a new Renaissance rather than an Industrial Revolution, arguing that the upheaval of the latter brought broader material gains. It turns a familiar AI policy debate into a sharper question: who gets to shape the technology,…
OpenAI Watch
ChatGPT can now respond to some prompts with interactive calculators, quizzes and comparisons instead of just a block of text. TechRadar says the new Intelligent UI is available in the standard Chat tab across subscription plans, including Free, putting this change within reach of ordinary users, not just…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform is arriving in a first wave of laptops, with prices starting at $2,600 and one Asus configuration reaching $7,000, PCWorld reports. The lineup pairs Nvidia’s Arm-based chips with high-memory configurations aimed at local AI and other demanding work, making the cost of that promise…
GlobalFoundries Watch
GlobalFoundries has marked a major Dresden factory expansion and unveiled FDX Fusion, a planned chip platform for Physical AI. The investment could lift annual capacity at the site above one million 300mm wafers by the end of 2028, while the new platform is aimed at efficient computing in…
ElevenLabs Watch
Royal Mail used an AI-generated voice in its 2025 Christmas advert, and the daughter of late broadcaster Paul Vaughan says she recognised her father in it. Deadline reports that speech experts also found similarities, while Royal Mail says the voice was not designed to replicate anyone in particular.
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Press Gazette says one AI-assisted reporter produced at least 52 Quartz articles on 8 October, as the business-news brand leans heavily on AI in its website publishing. The report raises a wider question for readers: when AI helps produce news at this scale, what does meaningful human editorial…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI says it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that used ChatGPT in influence campaigns across several countries. NPR’s account describes a striking split: Russian operatives mostly used the chatbot to report their work to superiors, while Iranian operatives used it to help produce material for publication.
