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Intel and SambaNova team up on heterogenous AI inference platform

Intel and SambaNova announce heterogeneous inference platform that can take advantage of Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, SambaNova SN50 ...
Reuters

Google in talks with China's Envicool, others to buy data centre cooling systems, sources say

Google procurement team has met with Envicool, sources say Visit to mainland China reflects tight supply conditions in Taiwan Global market for liquid cooling systems seen nearly doubling this year ...
CNBC

Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space-1 chip system for orbital AI data centers

Nvidia announced chips that will be used for space missions at the GTC 2026 AI conference. Orbital data centers have been an increasingly popular proposition as AI demand tests Earth's energy ...
Scientific American

Robot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millennia

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...
Bloomberg L.P.

ClickHouse Lands $15 Billion Valuation in AI Database Race

Database technology startup ClickHouse Inc. has raised $400 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15 billion — more than double its valuation less than a year ago. The large deal ...
Reuters

Google says US transmission system is biggest challenge for connecting data centers

Jan 14 (Reuters) - Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the biggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times to connect surge to more than ...
InfoQ

Effective Error Handling: a Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

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Semiconductor Engineering

Heterogeneous System With Specialized HW For Disaggregated LLM Inference (Princeton Univ., Univ. of Washington)

A new technical paper titled “SPAD: Specialized Prefill and Decode Hardware for Disaggregated LLM Inference” was published by researchers at Princeton University and University of Washington. “Large ...
IEEE

Tutorial: CEDR: A Holistic Software and Hardware Design Environment for Hardware Agnostic Application Development and Deployment on FPGA-Integrated Heterogeneous Systems

Abstract: This hands-on tutorial introduces CEDR, an open-source compilation and runtime framework designed to simplify application development and deployment on heterogeneous computing platforms ...
The New York Times

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again. By Mattathias ...
Ars Technica

DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created “a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that ...