Beyond Speed: TPC25 Maps the Road to Science-Ready AI
So far this week, TPC25 has brought together researchers who share one goal: to turn frontier-scale AI into a practical scientific tool. Tuesday's afternoon talks captured the range of ...Full Article
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, ...Full Article
LLNL and Partners Propose Data-Driven Approach to Bridge AI and Computational Science Models
Amid the ubiquity of large language models (LLMs) and computer vision models, the artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) research community has coalesced around the concept of foundation models. These models ...Full Article
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, ...Full Article
Argonne and Partners Celebrate Aurora’s Impact on Science with AI and Exascale Power
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week to celebrate its new Aurora exascale computer, marking a major milestone for AI-powered science. ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Nvidia Cleared to Resume H20 AI Chip Exports to China Amid Bipartisan Criticism
The U.S. Commerce Department will begin issuing licenses for Nvidia to resume exporting its H20 AI accelerator chips to China, according to reporting today from Reuters. Nvidia filed the necessary ...Full Article
The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC
Editor’s note: This article from my colleague Doug Eadline at HPCwire explains how HPC researchers are pairing established simulation codes with large AI models to slash runtimes and widen ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
