RIKEN taps Fujitsu and NVIDIA for FugakuNEXT supercomputer focused on Artificial Intelligence
RIKEN has launched an international collaboration with Fujitsu and NVIDIA to co-design FugakuNEXT, the successor to Fugaku, pairing simulation with Artificial Intelligence workloads. The early award of the contract lets the partners shape the system to address Japan´s scientific priorities and industrial needs.
Hot Chips preview: inference, networking and Artificial Intelligence innovation built on NVIDIA
At Hot Chips (Aug. 24-26, Stanford), NVIDIA and industry partners will present rack-scale designs, networking advances and inference optimizations aimed at accelerating Artificial Intelligence reasoning across data centers and desktops.
The case against humans in space
Three recent books mount a broad critique of human space colonization, arguing it is impractical, hazardous, and driven by problematic ideologies and inequality. The authors urge delaying large-scale settlement until governance, ethics, and stewardship are addressed.
Google’s artificial intelligence energy use and DNA access for police
Google released per-query estimates for the energy, water and carbon cost of prompts sent to its Gemini artificial intelligence apps. The newsletter also examines the ethics of allowing police to search private DNA databases and other technology headlines.
The future of Artificial Intelligence: how it will change the world
Advances in generative models and automation are expanding the role of Artificial Intelligence across industries while prompting debate over jobs, data privacy, regulation and environmental impact.
U.S. could feel effects of EU Artificial Intelligence Act as companies comply
As U.S. policy moves toward deregulation, large developers are aligning with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act through the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, a step that could extend EU protections to U.S. consumers because many models are released in both markets.
Artificial intelligence in science: is it useful?
Presentations at the Metascience 2025 conference suggested Artificial Intelligence can be useful for tasks such as hypothesis generation and literature summarisation, but speakers and surveys argued it is unlikely to revolutionise scientific practice and may introduce new problems.
Intel´s Jaguar Shores surfaces as rack-scale Artificial Intelligence chip with 18A and HBM4
Images published online indicate Intel´s Jaguar Shores is a rack-scale Artificial Intelligence design built on 18A process technology and equipped with SK hynix HBM4, using a large multi-tile package aimed at datacenter training.
Liquid cooling to scale in artificial intelligence data centers in 2025
TrendForce projects that liquid cooling adoption in Artificial Intelligence data centers will rise from 14% in 2024 to 33% in 2025 as NVIDIA rolls out GB200 NVL72 rack servers, moving deployments from pilots to large scale.
Side and Razer unveil hybrid playtest and quality assurance tool with Artificial intelligence
Side and Razer announced a hybrid playtest and quality assurance tool that uses Side´s proprietary Artificial intelligence to run large-scale, targeted playtests inside Razer Cortex. The company says the approach could cut playtesting costs by up to 80% in some cases.