Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Friday, June 5, 2026
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A new AI visualization tool aims to make the impact of science funding visible to policymakers, research investors, and the public. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University and Tongji University in Shanghai, China, Funding the Frontier is a visual analysis tool that tracks how research investments lead to outcomes across science, industry, health, and policy. ... Full article
Generative AI adoption is surging in the workplace – but most of it isn’t happening through official IT channels. Recent data shows that roughly 28% of U.S. employees are using generative AI at work, with over 10% using it daily and nearly a quarter using it at least weekly. Workers report that these tools help ... Full article
Tuesday, at its GTC event in Washington, D.C., Nvidia announced it is working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs to build seven new supercomputers. Five of these systems will be hosted by Argonne National Laboratory, and two will be hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory. In his GTC keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “Computing ... Full article
At its GTC Washington event Tuesday, Nvidia took the wraps off Bluefield-4, the newest generation of its data processing unit (DPU). The new generation moves data from storage to compute at rates of 800 Gbps, double the previous generation, with a 6x boost in computational power. Nvidia says customers need the extra juice to support ... Full article
Qualcomm is expanding beyond its mobile roots with a new line of data center hardware designed for AI inference. The San Diego-based company introduced its new AI200 and AI250 accelerator chips on Monday, positioning itself to compete in the AI hardware market with Nvidia and AMD. According to Qualcomm, these new chips will deliver enhanced ... Full article
Chinese researchers claim to have demonstrated how artificial intelligence can extend the reach of classical supercomputing into the domain of quantum chemistry, using China’s Sunway OceanLite system to model molecular behavior at an unprecedented scale. The team used the OceanLite, also known as the “New Sunway,” to train a neural network capable of simulating the ... Full article
NextSilicon has shared some internal benchmark results for its latest AI and HPC chip, the Maverick-2, and the claims are nothing if not bold. The company claims that its new chip, which is now shipping, can virtually rewire itself to adapt to changing workloads, thereby delivering 10x the computational performance of the latest Nvidia GPUs, ... Full article
The story of fusion has always been about generating clean and reliable energy. However, the key to making it real may be less about magnets and plasma than data — how it’s generated, simulated and interpreted. Every experiment generates massive volumes of it: terabytes of plasma readings, maps of magnetic fields and measurements of heat ... Full article
When researchers talk about “AI for science,” they often mean applying machine learning to accelerate discovery. But a new collaboration between SandboxAQ and Nvidia shows how AI-optimized hardware can be adapted for high performance computing. The project, which includes researchers from PNNL and Hungary’s Wigner Research Centre for Physics, uses mixed-precision methods to achieve the ... Full article
Intel unveiled a new data center GPU at the OCP Global Summit this week. Dubbed “Crescent Island,” the GPU will utilize the Xe3P graphics architecture, low-power LPDDR5X memory, and will target AI inference workloads, with energy efficiency as a primary characteristic. As the focus of the Gen AI revolution shifts from model training to inference ... Full article
Wiley, a global scientific and scholarly publishing company, has launched a new interoperable platform designed to connect scientific literature with leading artificial intelligence systems, giving researchers and developers direct access to verified scholarly content inside the AI tools they use. The platform is called the Wiley AI Gateway and aims to make peer-reviewed knowledge part ... Full article
The AI arms race has made “GPU” and “gigawatt” household words, and for good reason: What’s happening with the scale of compute is unprecedented. But what about the underlying storage layer? How are organizations going to store all the data for AI and keep those hungry GPUs fed? It turns out there’s a revolution occurring ... Full article
Nvidia is continuing its collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP) through new rack-level design contributions for its upcoming Vera Rubin system. At this week’s OCP Global Summit, the company announced that its Vera Rubin MGX rack will incorporate several innovations developed to align with OCP standards. The updates are part of Nvidia’s effort to ... Full article
A new framework proposes a way to turn scientific papers into AI agents that can be queried, tested, and reused for new experiments. The system, called Paper2Agent, is described in a preprint paper from Stanford University titled “Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive and Reliable AI Agents.” The authors make the case that papers containing computational ... Full article
A new artificial intelligence tool could make flood forecasts more accurate and actionable, according to a study published in AGU Advances. Researchers found that combining a machine learning model with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Water Model significantly improved the accuracy of national-scale flood predictions. The system, called Errorcastnet, was developed ... Full article
The rise of AI is putting real pressure on the U.S. power grid. As demand for compute explodes, the data centers behind AI systems are becoming some of the country’s top energy users. They are essential to digital life now, but their nonstop energy use is starting to reshape how electricity is priced and distributed ... Full article
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