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Google, AWS, Cloudflare Among Popular Services Hit By Widespread Outage

3 months ago
Multiple popular services -- including Google, Google Cloud, AWS, Spotify, Discord, Cloudflare, Google Nest, Azure, Box and Shopify -- are experiencing at least a partial outage globally that began around 2:25pm ET Friday, according to user complaints with reports flooding in across social media and outage tracking sites. Cloudflare has confirmed ongoing issues that started within the past hour. It remains unclear what prompted the outage. More details to follow.

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AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030

3 months ago
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets

With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.…

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AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps

3 months ago

To a certain extent, Nvidia and AMD are not really selling GPU compute capacity as much as they are reselling just enough HBM memory capacity and bandwidth to barely balance out the HBM memory they can get their hands on, thereby justifying the ever-embiggening amount of compute their GPU complexes get overstuffed with. …

AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Barbie Goes AI As Mattel Teams With OpenAI To Reinvent Playtime

3 months ago
BrianFagioli writes: Barbie is getting a brain upgrade. Mattel has officially partnered with OpenAI in a move that brings artificial intelligence to the toy aisle. Yes, you read that right, folks. Barbie might soon be chatting with your kids in full sentences, powered by ChatGPT. This collaboration brings OpenAI's advanced tools into Mattel's ecosystem of toys and entertainment brands. The goal? To launch AI-powered experiences that are fun, safe, and age-appropriate. Mattel says it wants to keep things magical while also respecting privacy and security. Basically, Barbie won't be data-mining your kids... yet.

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