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El Capitan retains top spot on TOP500 list

21 Nov 2025

The 66th TOP500 list, unveiled at the SC25 conference in St Louis, confirms El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the fastest supercomputer following benchmark remeasurements. The list also highlights continued U.S. leadership, historic European milestones, and increasing global diversity in architectures and energy efficiency.

high performance computing, supercomputing, top500

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Windows 11 agentic artificial intelligence features pose security risks, Microsoft confirms

21 Nov 2025

Microsoft is adding optional agentic artificial intelligence features to Windows 11 that can act on user commands, but the company warns they may introduce significant security vulnerabilities.

artificial intelligence, microsoft, security, windows

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Microsoft rolls out Cobalt 200 cpu with 132 Arm cores

21 Nov 2025

Microsoft introduced the Cobalt 200, a custom server processor for Azure that uses Artificial Intelligence-driven simulations during design. The chip promises roughly 50 percent better performance than the prior Cobalt 100 and wider customer availability in 2026.

arm, cloud, hardware, microsoft

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NVIDIA demand may double lpddr5x and server dram prices in 2026

20 Nov 2025

Counterpoint Research warns memory prices will keep climbing into early 2026 as demand from NVIDIA and other Artificial Intelligence deployments tightens LPDDR supply. The firm flags steep short-term increases and wider risks from tariffs, geopolitics, and labor costs.

artificial intelligence, memory, nvidia, semiconductors

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AMD Instinct MI430X targets high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence with 432 GB HBM4

20 Nov 2025

AMD has introduced the Instinct MI430X, a data center accelerator for high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence with 432 GB of HBM4 memory and 19.6 TB/s bandwidth. The GPU is already being deployed in the discovery supercomputer at Oak Ridge and the Alice Recoque exascale system in Europe.

artificial intelligence, hardware, high performance computing, supercomputing

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Roblox enables age verification for chat access amid child safety concerns

20 Nov 2025

Roblox will roll out camera-based age estimation to gate chat between minors and adults, initially optional and becoming mandatory globally by January. The checks use Persona and Artificial Intelligence and will begin in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in early December.

age verification, privacy, roblox, safety

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Ovi’s leap: Artificial Intelligence video tool boosts revenue and stokes creator fears

20 Nov 2025

Character AI’s Ovi generates synchronized text-to-video clips with near-human fidelity, driving significant personalization revenue while intensifying creator concerns about job displacement.

character ai, content creation, emerging tech, ethics

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How reinforcement learning is upending the Artificial Intelligence infra stack

20 Nov 2025

Reinforcement learning can generate renewable, proprietary data that changes where value sits across the Artificial Intelligence infrastructure market. Post-training and agent builders may displace commodity inference providers by producing owned interaction data.

artificial intelligence, infrastructure, reinforcement learning

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former TSMC executive Wei-Jen Lo reportedly joins Intel amid 2 nm probe

20 Nov 2025

former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo reportedly started at Intel in late October after retiring from TSMC, prompting an internal investigation over alleged copying of documents tied to 2 nm and other next-generation process technologies.

corporate governance, intellectual property, semiconductors

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AMD and Eviden to power Europe’s new exascale supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence

20 Nov 2025

AMD and Eviden will build Alice Recoque, France's first and Europe's second exascale supercomputer to serve as an Artificial Intelligence factory and support high performance computing. The 544 million euro project is funded by EuroHPC JU and led by GENCI and CEA with partners from the Netherlands and Greece.

amd, artificial intelligence, eurohpc, high performance computing

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gpu and pc vendors consider cuts as memory shortages tighten

20 Nov 2025

Reports from Korean and Taiwanese outlets say rising DRAM, NAND, and NOR Flash prices are pushing GPU makers and PC vendors to rethink product configurations and development timelines, with potential cuts to mid- and high-end models and higher retail prices possible.

gpus, memory, pc hardware

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Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce partnerships to scale Claude Artificial Intelligence

19 Nov 2025

Anthropic will scale its Claude Artificial Intelligence model on Microsoft Azure using NVIDIA systems, broadening enterprise access. the companies also announced a deep technology collaboration between NVIDIA and Anthropic to optimize models and hardware.

cloud, machine learning, partnerships