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MLPerf v5.0 Reflects the Shift Toward Reasoning in AI Inference

If there were any doubts that generative AI is reshaping the inference landscape, the latest MLPerf results should put them to rest. MLCommons announced new results today for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite. For the first time, large language models overtook traditional image classification as the most widely submitted workloads, with Meta’s Llama ... Full article

What Benchmarks Say About Agentic AI’s Coding Potential

Last week’s GTC 2025 show may have been agentic AI’s breakout moment, but the core technology behind it has been quietly improving behind the scenes. That progress is being tracked across a series of coding benchmarks, such as SWE-bench and GAIA, leading some to believe AI agents are on the cusp of something big. It ... Full article

Defending Against AI-Powered Deepfakes

Thanks to AI’s nonstop improvement, it’s becoming difficult for humans to spot deepfakes in a reliable manner. This poses a serious problem for any form of authentication that relies on images of the trusted individual. However, some approaches to countering the deepfake threat show promise. A deepfake, which is a portmanteau of “deep learning” and ... Full article

Transforming Engineering Workflows with AI-driven Knowledge Management

Fast and accurate access to critical data can be the difference between a timely product launch and costly delays. Engineers regularly work with massive amounts of structured and unstructured information—ranging from technical specifications and prototype testing results to regulatory documentation and market analyses. Sifting through isolated repositories, legacy databases, and email archives often leads to ... Full article

Mount Sinai’s New AI Model Analyzes Entire Nights of Sleep Using 1M+ Hours of Data

Sleep scientists have long sought to decode the mystery of our nightly shuteye, sifting through brain waves, heartbeats, and breathing patterns to understand the various stages we drift through. Now, a new AI model built by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai could shine a light into sleep patterns like never ... Full article

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introduced last year, Nvidia is integrating its new Blackwell Ultra GPUs into two DGX systems: the NVIDIA DGX GB300 and the NVIDIA DGX B300. The ... Full article

NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?

All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on Nvidia’s ... Full article

AI Takes the A-Train and Also Goes Under the Sea

While subjects such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek grab the headlines, practical applications are often subtle in their impact, take time to develop, and may get lost in the background noise. The examples provided below illustrate the growing importance of AI. They also show that human ingenuity, work, and time are required to develop important ... Full article

VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases

VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enabling enterprises to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI workloads at exabyte scale. When solid state drives went ... Full article

How AI is Driving the Next Wave of Retail Transformation

Retail is undergoing a massive transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. The convergence of generative AI and agentic AI is reshaping operations, enabling customized experiences, boosting productivity, and creating new revenue streams. Retailers are leveraging predictive and prescriptive AI to optimize inventory planning, enhance demand forecasting accuracy, intelligently manage inventory, and streamline supply chains. ... Full article

Cerebras Scales AI Inference with Hugging Face Partnership and Datacenter Expansion

As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six ... Full article

CoreWeave Aims to Expand AI Capabilities with Weights & Biases Acquisition

CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases. The acquisition, which is reported by The Information to be valued at $1.7 billion, strengthens CoreWeave’s position by integrating Weights ... Full article

New Los Alamos AI Defense Method Shields Models from Adversarial Attacks

This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face a significant threat from adversarial attacks, which can derail ... Full article

AI Governance Is Too Vague. It’s Time to Get Practical

The conversation around AI governance has often been frustratingly vague. Organizations talk the talk about AI ethics and regulatory compliance, but when it comes to practical implementation, many are paralyzed by uncertainty. Governance, as it stands today, is often a high-level corporate directive rather than a concrete, practicable plan. What if AI governance wasn’t just ... Full article

How AiDASH’s Technology Helps Reduce Wildfire Risks: An Interview with CEO Abhishek Singh

The economic impact of the recent Los Angeles wildfires is estimated to be between $95B and $164B, according to a report by UCLA Anderson. The wildfires caused more than 20,000 acres to be torched and forced the evacuation of over 150,000 people in the Los Angeles area. This makes it one of the costliest disasters ... Full article

How Politeness Hacks AI—And Why Chatbots Can Still Get It Wrong

The interplay between politeness and AI performance reveals something fundamental about how modern AI processes information. These models don't simply retrieve facts from a database — they engage in contextual reasoning where a query's social and emotional framing shapes the quality and depth of their responses. When customers interact politely with AI assistants, they unknowingly ... Full article

Cedars-Sinai Researchers Use AI to Detect Liver Disease in Heart Scans

Liver disease affects 4.5 million people in the U.S. according to CDC estimates, and it can often be asymptomatic. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai are working to make diagnosis of liver disease easier and faster using an artificial intelligence algorithm. Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a machine learning model that can identify chronic liver disease from videos taken ... Full article

OpenAI Expands Access to Deep Research

OpenAI announced it has expanded access to its Deep Research, its new AI agent designed to conduct complex research. Deep Research debuted earlier this month to users of ChatGPT Pro, the company’s $200/month subscription tier, but is now available to all paid users. “Deep Research is now rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, ... Full article

When Will Large Vision Models Have Their ChatGPT Moment?

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment in natural language processing (NLP), as it showcased the startling effectiveness of the transformer architecture for understanding and generating textual data. Now we’re seeing something similar happening in the field of computer vision with the rise of pre-trained large vision models. But when will ... Full article

Google Unveils AI Scientist That Could Transform Research

Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a big impact on scientific research and development. From revolutionizing drug discovery to early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, AI has been at the forefront of driving innovation across various scientific disciplines. This is not surprising as unlike some of the traditional research tools, AI can work with vast datasets, recognize ... Full article

MLPerf v5.0 Reflects the Shift Toward Reasoning in AI Inference

What Benchmarks Say About Agentic AI’s Coding Potential

Mount Sinai’s New AI Model Analyzes Entire Nights of Sleep Using 1M+ Hours of Data

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

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