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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani discusses municipal AI policy including school restrictions and data center pause proposals.

AMD expands AI infrastructure role via rack-scale Helios systems combining server CPUs with GPUs to support agents and accelerators at scale.

AMD guides >80% company revenue growth in 2027, driven by data center AI systems and server processors; execution and product mix critical to margins.

AMD's Q3 results show data center and AI systems driving growth, but cash conversion weakens amid margin pressure.

AMD Q3 earnings beat: $13.38B revenue (+45% YoY), data center revenue $8.5B (+97%), Q4 forecast raised.

AMD reports Q3 earnings with doubled data center revenue, driven by AI chip demand.

Intel exits low-margin industrial chips; AMD and Arm position for edge AI deployment opportunities.

Anthropic securing 3.5GW+ compute capacity by 2026 via direct Nvidia and AMD procurement for infrastructure scaling.

Nvidia projects 69% market share in AI robotics chips by 2026, driven by software ecosystem advantage over Intel, Qualcomm, AMD.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

Nvidia’s new SoC is available in Windows laptops from six different manufacturers. We’ve collectively tested four of them so far. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia RTX Blackwell graphics, and enough power and unified memory to run sizable l...

Meta details hardware-model co-design principles for optimizing AI training on AMD GPUs and MTIA accelerators versus NVIDIA baseline.

Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear a lot more about the new RTX Spark computing platform. While Nvidia's new laptops might look like regular Windows machines, the chips inside are Arm-based, instead of the traditional x64 architecture used by AMD and Intel. Combined with a powerful GPU, RTX Spark is designed for the future of AI, and it means a lot of w...

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2B; Atlas advances sparse 3D reconstruction for robotics and design applications.

World Labs co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li. | Bloomberg via Getty Images AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model called Marble that lets users make interactive 3D worlds from a prompt, in 2025. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. Li will become EVP and chief scientist at AMD, reporting...

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Sequential LoRA protocol transfers depression severity prediction from English PHQ-8 to Chinese HAMD-17 clinical scales using Qwen3 backbone.

ProgramDistill benchmarks coding agents on inferring and implementing features from interactive reference web apps via mine-craft-patch factorization pipeline.

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and is being introduced alongside additional limits on digital devices and a small pilot program for AI education tools. The new rules being introduced by NYC's Department of Education will bar teachers from using AI tools to grade assignments, and keep students from using the technology in the classroom until they enter ...

The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. At the same time, AMD's gaming revenue fell 31 percent compared to last year, to $779 million, as price hikes and component shortages slowed sales for the Xbox Series X / S, PS5, and Valve's Steam Deck. "Revenue increased 50 percent year-over-year to a record $11.5 billion, driven by continued strength in our Data Center busi...

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Interpretable Mamdani fuzzy regression extension for Ex-Fuzzy library with target-aware partition initialization.

AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios rack-scale system, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The companies plan to deploy the first gigawatt in the first half of 2027, building upon recent data center deals Anthropic has reached with SpaceX and TeraWulf. Anthropic has also signed AI infrastructure deals with Google, Broadcom...

In this paper, we study Reinforcement Learning in Parametrized Action Markov Decision Processes (PAMDP), where each decision consists of a symbolic action and numerical parameters. In such settings Reinforcement Learning algorithms typically determine parameters with one-shot estimators, which makes their training sample inefficient. Though in most PAMDP environments explicit but incomplete knowledge (e.g., rules, safety constraints, or expert heuristics) is available, it is rarely directly used to increase the sample-efficiency of training Reinforcement Learning agents. We step into this gap...

FP4 training promises substantial reductions in memory and computation cost for LLM pretraining, yet current FP4 hardware paths and recipes, including NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin-class systems and AMD MI350-series GPUs, remain centered on E2M1 data elements. In this study, we identify a fundamental limitation of that choice: non-uniform formats such as E2M1 inherently suffer from Shrinkage Bias, a systematic negative rounding error caused by the geometric asymmetry of their representable bins. We show that this bias accumulates multiplicatively across layers and is amplified by the Random Hadamard...

Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.

Mac Pro user discovers legacy AMD D700 GPUs now support Vulkan-based LLM inference via new drivers, reviving dormant hardware.

hipEngine: open-source ROCm-native inference engine for Qwen 3.6 MoE on AMD RDNA3 GPUs (7900 XTX, Strix Halo).