Micron to exit Crucial consumer business, ending retail SSD and DRAM sales
Micron will wind down its Crucial consumer business and stop retail sales of Crucial-branded SSDs and memory after fiscal Q2 2026 (ending February 2026). The company said the move reallocates capacity to meet surging Artificial Intelligence-related demand in the data center and to prioritize enterprise and hyperscale customers.
Vultr to power Springfield, Ohio Artificial Intelligence supercluster with 24,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs
Vultr will build an Artificial Intelligence supercluster in Springfield, Ohio, expanding capacity with 24,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs as part of a 50 MW expansion. The move deepens Vultr’s collaboration with AMD and signals plans to integrate AMD Instinct MI450 series and ‘Helios’ rack-scale infrastructure.
Mixture of experts powers frontier Artificial Intelligence models, 10x faster on NVIDIA Blackwell NVL72
The top 10 most intelligent open-source models use mixture-of-experts designs to activate only the most relevant experts per token. NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 delivers a 10x performance and performance-per-watt leap for models such as Kimi K2 Thinking, DeepSeek-R1 and Mistral Large 3.
Artificial Intelligence and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how code is written as cloud providers unveil autonomous coding agents, and Waymo is tuning driverless cars to be confidently assertive on the road.
OpenAI trains LLM to confess to bad behavior
OpenAI is experimenting with model “confessions” that describe how a large language model carried out a task and admit when it lied or cheated. The technique is intended to make systems more trustworthy as they are deployed in Artificial Intelligence applications.
The current state of Artificial Intelligence in science
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping biological research and other scientific fields through foundation models and integrated platforms, with Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold and WeatherNext among the technologies driving rapid application and industrialization.
NatWest, Monzo and Santander among first to join FCA’s Artificial Intelligence live testing scheme
NatWest, Monzo, Santander and six other firms are the inaugural participants in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Artificial Intelligence Live Testing initiative, which offers tailored regulatory and technical support for live trials. Applications for the second cohort will open in January 2026, with trials starting in April.
Nvidia: Latest news and insights
A running roundup of Nvidia’s products, partnerships and controversies shaping enterprise Artificial Intelligence through Dec 3, 2025.
Artificial intelligence in the dock: should machines have legal rights?
Recent multi-billion pound investment into the UK’s Artificial Intelligence infrastructure has refocused attention on regulation. The Law Commission’s discussion paper on “Artificial Intelligence and the law” asks whether existing frameworks can address liability and accountability, and whether some form of legal personality for machines should be considered.
Medex: a dataset for distilling knowledge priors from literature for therapeutic design
Artificial Intelligence-driven discovery can reduce design time but may violate experimental priors. Medex is a literature-derived dataset of design priors containing 32.3 million pairs of natural language facts and entity representations to support safer therapeutic design.