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Jaime Hampton

Bipartisan ‘ASAP’ Plan Aims to Supercharge US Science with Data, Compute and AI

June 25th, 2025 Comments Off on Bipartisan ‘ASAP’ Plan Aims to Supercharge US Science with Data, Compute and AI
Lawmakers are giving fresh consideration to science funding thanks to a recent initiative, the American Science Acceleration Project, or ASAP. Unveiled by Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Mike Rounds (R-SD), the bipartisan initiative aims to make U.S. research “ten ...

Skills-Based Hiring on the Rise As GenAI Enrollments Climb, Coursera Finds

June 18th, 2025 Comments Off on Skills-Based Hiring on the Rise As GenAI Enrollments Climb, Coursera Finds
Coursera, the online learning and career development platform co-founded by Andrew Ng, recently released its annual skills report. The 2025 Global Skills Report marks the 7th year of Coursera’s research insights drawn from the data of its 170 million ...

Trust and Efficiency in AI for Science: Inside the ISC 2025 Panel

June 12th, 2025 Comments Off on Trust and Efficiency in AI for Science: Inside the ISC 2025 Panel
At ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg, an audience gathered to hear an expert panel tackle a question that now shadows every research cluster and datacenter deployment: how do scientists keep AI models both trustworthy and energy-efficient while the ...

Meta Taps Scale AI CEO to Lead New Superintelligence Lab

June 11th, 2025 Comments Off on Meta Taps Scale AI CEO to Lead New Superintelligence Lab
Meta is reorganizing its artificial intelligence operations and forming a new research lab dedicated to the development of “superintelligence,” a theoretical form of AI that surpasses human cognitive capabilities.  According to a report from The Information, Meta is finalizing ...

How SandboxAQ and Stand Up To Cancer Are Using AI to Transform Cancer Research

June 6th, 2025 Comments Off on How SandboxAQ and Stand Up To Cancer Are Using AI to Transform Cancer Research
Cancer research may be entering a new phase: One where powerful AI models don’t just assist with data analysis but actively help chart the course of treatment. A new collaboration between SandboxAQ and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) aims ...

Blackwell GPUs Lift Nvidia to the Top of MLPerf Training Rankings

June 4th, 2025 Comments Off on Blackwell GPUs Lift Nvidia to the Top of MLPerf Training Rankings
Nvidia’s latest MLPerf Training 5.0 results show its Blackwell GB200 accelerators sprinting through record time-to-train scores, showing how the company’s rack-scale “AI-factory” design can turn raw compute into deployable models more quickly than before.  Using 34 72-GPU NVLink domains combined ...

Harnessing LLMs for Scientific Computing

June 3rd, 2025 Comments Off on Harnessing LLMs for Scientific Computing
Large language models (LLMs) have developed dramatically in the past few years, with applications ranging from text processing to predicting virus variants. As the datasets on which LLM models are trained become increasingly massive — including trillions of parameters — ...

HAL 2.0: Are Agentic AI Models Starting to Show Consciousness and a Will to Survive?

May 28th, 2025 Comments Off on HAL 2.0: Are Agentic AI Models Starting to Show Consciousness and a Will to Survive?
Maybe you recall the famous sequence from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The spacecraft’s HAL 9000 computer lip-reads that the two resident astronauts believe it is behaving erratically and plan to shut it down. Fearing this, HAL refuses astronaut Dave ...

Microsoft Unveils Agentic AI Tool to Streamline Cancer Care

May 23rd, 2025 Comments Off on Microsoft Unveils Agentic AI Tool to Streamline Cancer Care
Microsoft has introduced a new AI-powered orchestration system designed to streamline the complex process of cancer care planning. Available now through the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog, the healthcare agent orchestrator brings together specialized AI agents to assist clinicians ...

AI’s Open Origins and How It Affects Us Now

May 21st, 2025 Comments Off on AI’s Open Origins and How It Affects Us Now
Open-source technology has been one of the greatest contributors to tech innovation over the past 30 years. The ability to share R&D costs, reuse common code blocks, and accelerate proprietary applications fostered a technological boom that still shapes the ...
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