Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public Citizen, in a statement provided to Ars, criticized Trump as giving “sweetheart deals” to tech companies that would cause “electricity bills to rise to subsidize discounted power for massive AI data centers.” Infrastructure demands and energy requirements Trump’s new AI… Read More »
Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia’s H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so that it can restart shipments of the restricted processors just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump, potentially… Read More »
Beyond market volatility, Nvidia faces ongoing geopolitical challenges that threaten its access to one of its largest markets. Export controls on Nvidia’s chips designed to keep advanced AI tech out of Chinese hands (that date back to 2022, during the early Biden era) have created a thorny obstacle for the company that it has tried… Read More »
The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies. Salt Typhoon is one of a half-dozen or more hacking groups that work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. Intelligence agencies and… Read More »
Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The politically timed move comes amid rising US-China tensions and the Trump administration’s push for domestic manufacturing. Nvidia’s announcement comes less than two… Read More »
A large investment The path to creating a custom AI chip requires substantial resources. Industry experts told Reuters that designing a single version of such a processor could cost as much as $500 million, with additional expenses for developing supporting software and hardware potentially doubling that amount. The current OpenAI chip project, led by former… Read More »
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on tasks involving math, physics, and science. And this latest open model is turning heads for apparently quickly catching up to OpenAI. For example, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks and tests,… Read More »
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI-accelerating GPU… Read More »
“A muscular barbarian breaking a CRT television set with a weapon, cinematic, 8K, studio lighting” “A scared woman in a Victorian outfit running through a forest, dolly shot” “Low angle static shot: A teddy bear sitting on a picnic blanket in a park, eating a slice of pizza. The teddy bear is brown and fluffy,… Read More »
In the spirit of not cherry-picking any results, everything you see was the first generation we received for the prompt listed above it. “A highly intelligent person reading ‘Ars Technica’ on their computer when the screen explodes” “A cat in a car drinking a can of beer, beer commercial” “Will Smith eating spaghetti“ “Robotic humanoid… Read More »