Infrastructure News & Updates
Your central hub for AI news and updates on Infrastructure. We're tracking the latest articles, discussions, tools, and videos from the last 7 days.
Every product Apple launched this week: M5 MacBook Pro, iPad, $3,500 Vision Pro, more
Apple has unveiled three new Pro devices with an all-new chipset that focuses on AI compute performance. Here's what to know....
Unlocking Tensor Core Performance with Floating Point Emulation in cuBLAS
NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries provide the fundamental numerical building blocks that enable developers to deploy accelerated applications across multip...
Why it matters:
The release of cuBLAS's floating-point emulation is an important step forward for AI professionals looking to accelerate matrix multiplication performance.
Solve Linear Programs Using the GPU-Accelerated Barrier Method in NVIDIA cuOpt
How does the NFL schedule all its regular-season games while avoiding stadium conflicts with Beyoncé concerts? How can doctors use a single donated......
Why it matters:
The cuOpt barrier method is a significant advancement in large-scale linear programming performance, offering a practical solution for AI professionals.
Anthropic expands Google Cloud TPU use to boost AI research ... - eeNews Europe
Anthropic expands Google Cloud TPU use to boost AI research ... eeNews Europe...
Why it matters:
The expanded partnership between Anthropic and Google Cloud highlights the growing demand for custom AI compute infrastructure and the importance of scalable AI infrastructure in AI research and development.
Train an LLM on an NVIDIA Blackwell Desktop with Unsloth—and Scale It
Fine-tuning and reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) require advanced expertise and complex workflows, making them out of reac...
Why it matters:
Unsloth democratizes access to large language model customization with its simplified and accelerated workflow.
Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads
Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient....
Why it matters:
Tensormesh's commercialization of LMCache has the potential to make a significant impact on the AI inference optimization space, but its success will depend on the product's ability to address the technical complexities of companies attempting to implement similar solutions on their own.
Redefining data engineering in the age of AI
As organizations weave AI into more of their operations, senior executives are realizing data engineers hold a central role in bringing these initiati...
Why it matters:
Data engineers' increasing role in AI strategy highlights the importance of managing complex data requirements to drive business success.
GM’s under-the-hood overhaul puts AI and automated driving at the center
The U.S. automaker's technological overhaul will debut in two years with the Cadillac Escalade IQ....
Why it matters:
This architecture overhaul is crucial for GM to stay competitive in the automotive industry, offering faster software updates and more advanced automation features in its future vehicles.
European AI rising star Nexos.ai raises $30M to unlock enterprise AI adoption
Nord Security co-founders have closed a €30 million Series A for their new startup, Nexos.ai, an orchestration platform aimed at helping companies ado...
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Accelerate Enterprise AI and Industrial Digitalization
NVIDIA and Google Cloud are expanding access to accelerated computing to transform the full spectrum of enterprise workloads, from visual computing to...
CleanSpark Announces Business Evolution from Pure-Play Bitcoin Miner to Include AI Compute; Hires Industry Veteran Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI Data Centers - PR Newswire
CleanSpark Announces Business Evolution from Pure-Play Bitcoin Miner to Include AI Compute; Hires Industry Veteran Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI Data Ce...
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, C...
OpenAI, Oracle named as users of $15B Wisconsin data center - Finance & Commerce
OpenAI, Oracle named as users of $15B Wisconsin data center Finance & Commerce...
Why it matters:
This $15 billion investment in a Wisconsin data center highlights the growing trend of large companies pouring billions into data centers to support AI and clean energy initiatives.
Anthropic signs deal with Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity — AI company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026 - Tom's Hardware
Anthropic signs deal with Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity — AI company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026 Tom's Hardware...
Why it matters:
Anthropic is taking a strategic approach by leveraging Google Cloud's infrastructure rather than investing in its own hardware, which could impact its ability to scale and withstand market fluctuations.
How Data Centers Actually Work
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are s...
Why it matters:
The surge in AI data center investments raises concerns about energy consumption and sustainability, and experts warn about the potential for the industry to create a climate bubble.
Google’s bets on carbon capture power plants, which have a mixed record
Google intends to use electricity from the 400-MW power plant in Decatur, Illinois, to operate nearby data centers. Carbon capture will eliminate some...
Why it matters:
Google's investment in the natural gas power plant with carbon capture demonstrates its efforts to reduce its environmental impact, but may face challenges in the effectiveness of carbon capture and storage technology.
OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Data Centers Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Wisconsin - Business Wire
OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Data Centers Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Wisconsin Business Wire...
Why it matters:
This significant investment by Vantage Data Centers in a sustainable data center campus in Wisconsin demonstrates a strong commitment to environmentally friendly infrastructure and creating job opportunities.
AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
"As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done." The post AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amaz...
Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash - 80 Level
Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash 80 Level...
I tried the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses (including this unreleased feature), and I'm nearly sold
The style, fit, and features made me a believer. But will it do the same to you?...
CleanSpark Jumps On AI Expansion, Bitcoin Price Looks To Rebound - Investor's Business Daily
CleanSpark Jumps On AI Expansion, Bitcoin Price Looks To Rebound Investor's Business DailyCleanSpark Shares Surge After Bitcoin Miner Joins Pivot to A...
Fears over higher rates as Georgia moves to provide more electricity for AI datacenters - The Guardian
Fears over higher rates as Georgia moves to provide more electricity for AI datacenters The Guardian...
Jensen says Nvidia’s China AI GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero — the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker's data center revenue - Tom's Hardware
Jensen says Nvidia’s China AI GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero — the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker'...
75% of Amazon's Code Now AI-Generated? Musk Mocks After AWS Outage.. - Greatandhra.com
75% of Amazon's Code Now AI-Generated? Musk Mocks After AWS Outage.. Greatandhra.comA common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down...
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I’ve been following this PR for over a month because it adds support for some interesting MoE, the 103B size sounds cool 1T models: [https://hugging...
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What LLM gave you your first "we have GPT-4 at home" moment?
AI developers can now run LLMs or other AI workloads on ARM-based MacBooks with the power of Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Apple M5 Max and Ultra will finally break monopoly of NVIDIA for AI interference
Why does Jensen keep telling ASICs aren't worth it and most of them will fail despite Groq/Cerebras achieving decent success?
Running DeepSeek-R1 671B (Q4) Locally on a MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAX 4-Node AI Cluster
Building a High-Performance LLM Gateway in Go: Bifrost (50x Faster than LiteLLM)
Free GPU memory during local LLM inference without KV cache hogging VRAM
Running whisper-large-v3-turbo (OpenAI) Exclusively on AMD Ryzen™ AI NPU
vLLM + OpenWebUI + Tailscale = private, portable AI
Amazon Services and AI and the outage
Handing over the most advanced Fabs
Qwen3VL-30b-a3b Image Caption Performance - Thinking vs Instruct (FP8) using vLLM and 2x RTX 5090
[Benchmark Visualization] RTX Pro 6000 vs DGX Spark - I visualized the LMSYS data and the results are interesting
We cut our eval times from 6 hours down to under 48 minutes by ditching naive RAG!
Every Mag 7 company spending billions in capex to build their own LLM model and AI stack
LLM guardrails missing threats and killing our latency. Any better approaches?
After Today's Epic AWS Outage, What's the Ultimate Cloud Strategy for AGI Labs? xAI's Multi-Platform Approach Holds Strong—Thoughts?
Speculative decoding for on-CPU MoE?
Introducing Unitree H2 - china is too good at robotics 😭