My reporting also helped answer another question that was lingering in my brain: Why doesn’t the world recycle more nuclear waste? There’s still a lot of usable uranium in spent nuclear fuel... Read more »
Now off-the-shelf technology—Starlink terminals, plug-and-play nautical autopilots, high-resolution video cameras—may be advancing that cat-and-mouse game into a new phase. Uncrewed subs could move more cocaine over longer distances, and they wouldn’t put human smugglers... Read more »
On the other hand, some other reactor designs could produce a smaller volume of spent fuel, but that isn’t necessarily a smaller problem. Fast reactors, for example, achieve a higher burn-up, consuming... Read more »
Training versions of AI models on classified data is expected to make them more accurate and effective in certain tasks, according to a US defense official who spoke on background with MIT... Read more »
Quote of the day “The inference inflection has arrived.” —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims we’ve reached a tipping point where AI usage is accelerating faster than its development, AP reports. One More Thing Meet the... Read more »
This year, a South Korean company called Absolics will start producing special glass panels that make next-generation computing hardware more powerful and efficient. Other companies, including Intel, are also pushing forward in this area. ... Read more »
Microsoft and NVIDIA: Accelerating physical AI at scale Physical AI cannot be delivered through point solutions. It requires agentic-driven, enterprise-grade development, deployment, and operations toolchains and workflows that connect simulation, data, AI models,... Read more »
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” —OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes a new pitch to investors... Read more »
“As AI workloads surge and package sizes expand, the industry is confronting very real mechanical constraints that impact the trajectory of high-performance computing,” says Deepak Kulkarni, a senior fellow at the chip... Read more »
The official described this as an example of how things might work but would not confirm or deny whether it represents how AI systems are currently being used. Other outlets have reported... Read more »