Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, June 25, 2026
AI Career Notes: March 2022 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Peter Buckingham SambaNova Systems, an AI systems company, has named Peter Buckingham to vice president of software engineering. Buckingham is responsible for enabling the software team to capture the ... Full article
Quantum Annealing: The First Wave of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is poised to become the next breakthrough technological advancement in how organizations leverage IT resources for a competitive advantage. With the recent surge in academic and industry analyst research dedicated to this computational paradigm, many believe it will mirror the impact of artificial intelligence as a ubiquitous means of solving computational problems that far ... Full article
Graphcore Announces Wafer-on-Wafer IPU, ‘Good’ Computer
Graphcore introduced its AI-focused, PCIe-based Intelligent Processing Units (IPUs) six years ago. Since then, the company has done anything but slow down, announcing a second generation of IPUs in 2020 and, over the years, larger and larger IPU-based “IPU-POD” systems — most recently the IPU-POD128 and the IPU-POD256, both announced just a few months ago. ... Full article
Cerebras Systems Supplies 2nd-Gen AI System to TotalEnergies
Cerebras Systems, pioneer of wafer-scale computing for AI and HPC, today announced that TotalEnergies (formerly “Total”) has deployed the Cerebras CS-2 system at its Houston facilities to accelerate its multi-energy research. The news marks the first publicly disclosed customer win for Cerebras in the energy sector. “This is a new segment for us,” Andrew Feldman, ... Full article
Industry Heavyweights Launch UCIe Consortium to Drive Chiplet Interconnect Standard
A new industry consortium aims to establish a die-to-die interconnect standard – Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) – in support of an open chiplet ecosystem. Intel Corporation donated the UCIe 1.0 spec, which was then ratified by the 10 promoter members that span chip companies, semiconductor suppliers and cloud service providers. The charter roster consists ... Full article
Going Green in the AI Era: an Imperative for Performance-Intensive Applications
Across the globe, the same pattern is seen – data centers are slowly becoming a detriment to the environment. While energy usage has stabilized around 2-3 percent   of the world’s electricity, thanks to innovations in cooling methods, the amount of e-waste is growing to over 50 million metric tons per year according to the ... Full article
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Tackles Power Grid Failures with AI
Next time your power stays on during a severe weather event, you may have a machine learning model to thank. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are using artificial intelligence to solve power grid failures. The manager of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Jie Chen, and his colleagues have developed a machine learning model ... Full article
SambaNova Adds GPT Banking to its Growing Dataflow-as-a-Service Lineup
AI chip and systems specialist SambaNova today announced a new offering – SambaNova GPT Banking – intended to simplify and speed deployment of GPT models in the financial services industry. The new service is available now and becomes part of SambaNova’s expanding dataflow-as-a-service portfolio although pricing was not disclosed. “Think of dataflow-as-a-service as the umbrella ... Full article
Aporia Tackles AI Trust with $25M Series A Round
Aporia, an observability platform for machine learning, has announced a $25 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $30 million. With the ever-expanding use of AI for business intelligence, data integrity and trustworthiness of predictions made by machine learning models have become important concerns. There are notable examples of what happens when ... Full article
DeepMind’s AI Algorithm Brings Science One Step Closer to Fusion
Harnessing the power of the stars – which are fueled by clean, stable, high-output nuclear fusion energy – is a lofty goal for meeting our world’s ever-increasing energy needs. Fusion now seems closer than ever thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are leveraging their vast experience with ... Full article
Startup Sway AI Launches No-Code AI Platform
Venture-backed startup Sway AI has announced the launch of its no-code enterprise AI platform. The company says its platform allows AI solutions to be built and deployed quickly without AI or coding experience. Sway AI’s patent-pending technology allows business users, technical non-AI users, and technical users with AI proficiency to build AI workflows without code. The ... Full article
Sony’s ‘Sophy’ AI, Trained on Thousands of Races, Bests Humans Champs
AI is a critical element of many modern video games, enabling non-player allies and opponents to intelligently move and act in response to player actions. But as games have become more complex—incorporating increasingly true-to-life physics, intricate game mechanics, and high player expectations of non-player intelligence—AI has struggled to keep pace with those more authentic worlds ... Full article
Usable AI: Putting the Right Amount of Human in the Loop
Most companies embarked on their AI journey thinking they would build large AI systems that would take over entire workstreams end-to-end. After several years of proofs of concept and experimentation, it is clear that AI is a fantastic prediction machine, arguably the best prediction machine we will ever have, but judgment requires human engagement. And ... Full article
AI Career Notes: February 2022 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Jerry Conway Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, appointed Jerry Conway as its senior vice president of market access. Conway brings more than 30 years ... Full article
3 Ways to Execute a Successful Industrial AI Strategy
Today’s industrial marketplace depends on industrial AI, which is being embraced by IT and operations decision makers in process engineering companies as a significant driver in their digital transformation strategies. But getting the most out of industrial AI depends on successfully scaling an industrial AI strategy across a business organization. Here are critical steps to ... Full article
Deloitte’s 2022 Tech Growth Opportunities: Everything-as-a-Service, Hybrid Workers, More
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, tech organizations – like every other group on Earth – are dealing with a wide range of ongoing issues that impact their operations. To monitor and review some of those effects and changes, Deloitte released its new 2022 Technology Industry Outlook report, which targets several ... Full article
The Importance of Humanized Autonomous Decision-Making in AI
Advanced automation technologies like artificial intelligence, coupled with data generated from the internet, smart devices and social networks, are making it easier than ever to off-load real-time decision making from humans to algorithms. This is more than just recommending your next television show to binge, Instead, it is evidence that we are increasingly relying on ... Full article
Latest OpenAI GPT-3 Research Finds That Larger Models Not Always Best
Since unveiling its GPT-3 large language model in June of 2020, OpenAI has continued to tweak and improve it, adding fine-tuning capabilities last December that make it easier for developers to create GPT-3 versions tailored for their enterprise applications. Now the group’s research has uncovered an interesting finding they may not have expected – they ... Full article
Nvidia Reportedly Backing Away From its Proposed $40B Arm Acquisition
For GPU-maker Nvidia, it was not supposed to end this way, with the company giving up on its grandiose plans to acquire chip IP vendor, Arm Ltd. But after more than 18 months of prying eyes from government agencies from the U.K., the European Commission, the United States and China, it appears that the Arm ... Full article
Ceremorphic Touts Its HPC Silicon Technology for Supercomputing and Exits Stealth
In a market still filling with fledging silicon chips, Ceremorphic, Inc. has exited stealth and is telling the world about what it calls its patented new ThreadArch multi-thread processor technology that will help improve new supercomputers. Venkat Mattela, the company’s founder and CEO of Ceremorphic, calls his latest chip design a Hierarchical Learning Processor (HLP), ... Full article