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Jedec readies sphbm4 standard to match hbm4 bandwidth with fewer pins

13 Dec 2025

Jedec is finalizing the sphbm4 memory standard, aiming to deliver hbm4-level throughput for artificial intelligence accelerators while cutting pin count through higher interface frequencies and serialization.

hardware, memory, semiconductors

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TSMC may shift Japan phase 2 fab to N4 and N5 as demand changes

13 Dec 2025

TSMC is reportedly rethinking plans for its second Japan fab, pausing construction and equipment orders as it weighs an upgrade from 6 nm and 7 nm to N4 and N5 process technologies.

artificial intelligence, manufacturing, semiconductors, tsmc

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Nvidia plans stronger fp64 performance for next gen high performance computing gpus

12 Dec 2025

Nvidia is reaffirming its commitment to 64-bit floating point performance in high performance computing, signaling that upcoming architectures will restore and enhance fp64 capabilities after recent generations prioritized lower precision throughput.

artificial intelligence, hardware, high performance computing, nvidia

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OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2 on NVIDIA infrastructure for large scale training

12 Dec 2025

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, describing it as its most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, trained and deployed on NVIDIA's full stack Artificial Intelligence infrastructure. The release underscores the growing importance of massive pretraining and post-training at scale using thousands of GPUs.

artificial intelligence, infrastructure, nvidia, openai

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SMIC reaches 5 nm N+3 volume production without EUV tools

12 Dec 2025

SMIC has moved into volume production of its 5 nm-class N+3 node using only deep ultraviolet lithography, a full generation ahead of its earlier N+2 process, but yield and cost issues remain significant.

china, huawei, manufacturing, semiconductors

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OpenAI GPT-5.2 launch underscores NVIDIA’s role in large-scale Artificial Intelligence infrastructure

12 Dec 2025

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.2 model for professional knowledge work was trained and deployed on NVIDIA’s latest accelerators, highlighting how frontier Artificial Intelligence systems increasingly depend on NVIDIA’s full-stack infrastructure and benchmark performance gains.

artificial intelligence infrastructure, cloud-computing, nvidia, openai

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A decade of OpenAI and the road to superintelligence

12 Dec 2025

Sam Altman reflects on OpenAI’s first ten years, from uncertain beginnings to systems that outperform top humans on difficult intellectual tasks, and lays out a confident path toward superintelligence over the next decade.

artificial intelligence, company leadership, future of work, openai

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Global artificial intelligence safety rules tighten across eu, us and uk in 2025

12 Dec 2025

Governments in the eu, us and uk are shifting from voluntary principles to binding rules for high-risk artificial intelligence systems, reshaping expectations for developers and experimental platforms alike.

artificial intelligence, eu policy, regulation, us policy

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Artificial intelligence hallucination benchmark compares popular language models

12 Dec 2025

Researchers benchmarked 37 large language models on 60 fact-focused questions to measure hallucination rates and found that context window size and model scale are poor proxies for reliability.

ai safety, artificial intelligence, evaluation, large language models

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Microsoft Foundry expands Azure model catalog with GPT-5.2, partner models, and granular regional options

12 Dec 2025

Microsoft’s Foundry Models lineup in Azure now spans the latest Azure OpenAI families such as GPT-5.2 and GPT-4.1, as well as partner offerings from Black Forest Labs, Cohere, DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral, Moonshot AI, and xAI. The documentation details capabilities, deployment types, and region-by-region availability for standard, provisioned, batch, and data zone scenarios.

azure openai, cloud infrastructure, large language models, microsoft

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Time names architects of artificial intelligence as 2025 person of the year

12 Dec 2025

Time magazine has named the architects of artificial intelligence as its 2025 Person of the Year, highlighting the technology’s sweeping cultural and economic influence and featuring interviews with several prominent industry and government figures.

artificial intelligence, industry leaders, technology, time magazine

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NVIDIA designs location verification technology to track GPU smugglers

12 Dec 2025

Reuters reports NVIDIA has developed a software-based location verification tool that identifies where and how its GPUs are deployed to curb GPU smuggling and enforce export restrictions. The company says the service will help data center operators monitor the health and inventory of their Artificial Intelligence GPU fleets.

hardware, nvidia, policy