SpaceX’s ambitious compute goals could require over two million Nvidia Rubin GPUs
SpaceX plans to more than 5x its compute capacity by the end of 2027, betting exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. The expansion could require well over a million new GPUs. Meanwhile, the [...]
The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned vers [...]
TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.
In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million [...]
Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size
Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories. It matches models seven times its siz [...]
Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Automate the Scientific Method With Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and one of the central figures in modern AI infrastructure, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup whose stated goa [...]
The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eopto [...]