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AI hardware provides the computing power, memory and networks used to train and run artificial intelligence models. Follow news on GPUs, AI accelerators, data centres, chip design and energy demand. Read how changes in infrastructure affect performance, availability and cost, and distinguish measured results from vendor claims about what the next generation of computing will deliver.
Lead story
AMD is now in the neural-rendering conversation, with work on neural lighting published through GPUOpen, according to Digital Foundry. That matters because graphics firms are running into harder power, cost and manufacturing limits: the next big frame-rate gains may come from smarter rendering rather than simply throwing more…
Read the report & discussion ↗Microsoft AI Watch
More than 250 people gathered in Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire, England, on 12 September to protest Microsoft’s planned Skelton Grange data-centre campus. The site has planning permission and is expected to be built in early 2027, but campaigners say the project could put unnecessary pressure on…
OpenClaw Watch
RapidStart has published a white paper on deploying OpenClaw in business environments, focusing on the architecture and controls needed once an AI agent leaves a developer laptop and meets real company systems.
Meta AI Watch
Meta is reportedly asking some individual contributors in its Applied AI division whether they would like to become managers again, a quiet reversal of the flatter structure built around its AI push. The move matters because deploying advanced AI at scale still appears to require plenty of the…
AMD Watch
Agentic AI could make the humble server CPU much busier. AMD executives say systems built around multiple agents spend their time not only generating tokens, but also calling APIs, querying databases and executing tools. That is why the company is pitching a broader AI infrastructure role for CPUs,…
Watch Desk
Opposition to Flock’s AI-assisted police cameras is being recast as a China-linked, far-left influence operation, after a lobbying report was amplified by Fox News and a Sinclair-owned local TV package. 404 Media says the package ran in at least 40 local news markets, turning a contested argument about…
Watch Desk
Pathway has developed an AI architecture that reasons through recurrent internal states rather than generating a long trail of intermediate tokens. Its reported ARC-AGI-1 result suggests that capable reasoning might become dramatically cheaper if the architecture, rather than sheer scale, does more of the work.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has shipped version 3.1129.0 of its JavaScript SDK, bundling a surprisingly broad set of AI and compute updates into one release. The useful thread is not a new model, but more control around the systems that feed, evaluate and run AI workloads.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has launched a Ray Serve Deep Learning Container and an Amazon EKS walkthrough for moving model endpoints away from TorchServe. The important bit is operational: AWS now offers a tested inference stack with ongoing container maintenance, so teams need not assemble and patch every GPU dependency themselves.
NVIDIA Watch
Multimodal AI serving is getting a plumbing upgrade: NVIDIA’s Dynamo framework can split vision encoding from language-model prefill and decode, allowing each stage to batch, schedule and scale independently. NVIDIA says the approach is most useful for image-heavy requests, shorter outputs and mixed traffic where image jobs can…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA is working with eight Australian cloud and data-centre providers on AI infrastructure that it says could support a buildout of up to 2GW by 2027. The important bit is local access: the planned capacity is intended to let Australian companies, researchers and public bodies build and run…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a deployment guide for Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, showing how to serve the open-weight model on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. The practical headline is that a 2.4-trillion-parameter model can be made usable on one ml.p6-b300.48xlarge instance with eight NVIDIA B300 GPUs, using NVFP4 quantisation and an…
Hugging Face Watch
Hugging Face has released Transformers v5.17.0, adding support for a 780B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window, plus new multimodal, speech and attention implementations. The practical story is breadth: more frontier-shaped models are landing in one of the ecosystem’s main compatibility layers, alongside fixes that should make…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA has unveiled a broad expansion of its AI for Media stack at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, putting synthetic-video checks, live sports analysis, localisation and video enhancement into broadcast and streaming workflows.
Watch Desk
Kepler Computing has emerged from seven years of stealth with a new approach to high-bandwidth memory for AI chips. The San Jose startup says it can deliver greater density using existing fabs and no EUV lithography, potentially easing one of AI infrastructure’s most stubborn supply constraints. The breakthrough…
Watch Desk
Meta has introduced Muse, a US personal AI agent that connects to everyday services and completes tasks on a user’s behalf. This is Meta’s biggest move yet from chatbots that answer questions towards software trusted to send, book, buy and keep working after you close the app.
OpenAI Watch
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster has accused OpenAI researchers of racing towards the same Navier-Stokes result after learning about his collaboration’s progress. OpenAI mathematics lead Sébastien Bubeck denies the claims, leaving a consequential dispute about academic priority, AI-assisted research and access to researchers’ model interactions.
