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Jaime Hampton

Nvidia Returns, Huawei Scales Up, Cadence Faces Penalty: A Fraught Week in US–China AI Relations

July 30th, 2025 Comments Off on Nvidia Returns, Huawei Scales Up, Cadence Faces Penalty: A Fraught Week in US–China AI Relations
The contest to build and control China’s proliferation of AI hardware intensified on three fronts this week. Nvidia secured the green light to resume shipping its pared‑down H20 accelerator, Huawei introduced a 384‑chip Ascend 910C cluster that it claims ...

Agentic AI Sets the Tone at TPC25’s Hackathon and Tutorial Plenary Session

July 28th, 2025 Comments Off on Agentic AI Sets the Tone at TPC25’s Hackathon and Tutorial Plenary Session
Monday marked day one of TPC25, the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s all-hands conference and exhibition in San Jose, Calif. A group of over 130 participants gathered for a morning plenary session to kick off the conference’s hackathon/tutorial focused on building ...

The Role of Network Resilience in AI-Enabled Supply Chains

July 28th, 2025 Comments Off on The Role of Network Resilience in AI-Enabled Supply Chains
Driven by global reach, today’s supply chains span continents and rely on the right coordination across countless stakeholders. These continent-spanning networks comprise many parties—including brokers, shippers, and warehouses—who must communicate effectively to ensure timely and accurate deliveries. Like a ...

TPC25 Preview: Inside the Conference Shaping Frontier AI for Science

July 22nd, 2025 Comments Off on TPC25 Preview: Inside the Conference Shaping Frontier AI for Science
When the Trillion Parameter Consortium holds its 2025 all‑hands conference and exhibition, TPC25, in San Jose on July 28–31, computational scientists, system architects, policy leaders, and AI stakeholders from research, industry, and government will tackle one question: how can trillion‑parameter frontier ...

Big Tech Turns to AI Upskilling Partnerships to Protect Jobs

July 21st, 2025 Comments Off on Big Tech Turns to AI Upskilling Partnerships to Protect Jobs
Ominous job forecasts and layoff predictions have crowded the headlines so far this month, with economists warning that many white-collar roles could disappear as AI adoption increases. It’s an all too familiar scenario: in the early web era, many ...

Anthropic Worth $100B? Riding the High-Stakes AI Money-go-round

July 16th, 2025 Comments Off on Anthropic Worth $100B? Riding the High-Stakes AI Money-go-round
This week could have been an episode of HBO’s "Silicon Valley" as billions of dollars flooded into AI firms almost overnight. The tone was set on Friday, when Nvidia became the first public company to reach a $4 trillion ...

China’s Moonshot AI Releases Trillion Parameter Model Kimi K2

July 14th, 2025 Comments Off on China’s Moonshot AI Releases Trillion Parameter Model Kimi K2
Moonshot AI, a Beijing startup backed by Alibaba, has released a new open weight large language model. Called Kimi K2, the model has one trillion parameters, making it one of the largest open weight models available. The system activates ...

Agentic AI Enters the Enterprise: Autonomy, Governance, and the New Risk Equation

July 14th, 2025 Comments Off on Agentic AI Enters the Enterprise: Autonomy, Governance, and the New Risk Equation
Walk into any boardroom today and you’ll hear the same buzzwords circulating: AI, Gen AI, LLMs, and now, increasingly, “agentic AI.” Like many tech terms, it's gaining traction faster than it's being understood—and that’s a problem. Why? Agentic AI ...

Robot Surgeon Executes Key Phase of Surgery Without Human Assistance

July 9th, 2025 Comments Off on Robot Surgeon Executes Key Phase of Surgery Without Human Assistance
By now, you've probably heard of robotic surgery, where a surgeon sits at a console and guides long-armed instruments that enter the body through tiny pre-made incisions. The surgeon's hand movements are converted into steady, miniature actions while a ...

TACC’s Supercomputers Power AI-driven Research Uncovering Rapid Genomic Shifts in Human Evolution

July 2nd, 2025 Comments Off on TACC’s Supercomputers Power AI-driven Research Uncovering Rapid Genomic Shifts in Human Evolution
The mystery of how we became human still drives scientific inquiry, especially among researchers probing the ancient genetic shifts that gave rise to our complex brains, capacity for language, and upright posture—traits that set us apart from our closest ...
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