Nvidia to Propel AI Advancements with Next-Generation Grace Hopper Superchip
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Today is a busy day of news from Nvidia as the AI leader takes the wraps off a series of new developments at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. On the hardware front, one of the biggest developments from the company is
SpaceX Successfully Tests Super Heavy Booster in Major Milestone
SpaceX on Sunday performed a static fire test of a new Super Heavy booster at its launch site in South Texas. The ignition of 33 engines proved to be a spectacle, and there were positives and negatives to be taken away from the short-duration test firing. On the plus side, the rocket—dubbed Booster 9, as
Nightfall AI Introduces Revolutionary Security Platform to Safeguard Data in the Age of Generative AI
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here All organizations are eager to harness the productivity gains of generative AI, starting with ChatGPT, despite the security threat of their confidential data being leaked into large language models (LLMs). CISOs tell VentureBeat they’re split on the issue, with AI
Facebook’s Role in Political Polarization During 2020 Election: A Complex Analysis
Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. But it's unclear whether our online "echo chambers" are the driving factor behind that polarization or whether social media merely reflects (and arguably amplifies) divisions that already
Physicists Successfully Achieve Net Energy Gain in Fusion for Second Time
US government scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time, a result that is set to fuel optimism that progress is being made toward the dream of limitless, zero-carbon power. Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the Sun, but until December no
Flawless Cygnus Launch Marks the End of an Era
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—I had been told that rocket launches are a physical experience, that the carefully controlled explosions that send payloads to space create waves of sound intense enough to be felt from over a mile away. But my first close-up experience with a launch involved the relatively small Electron rocket, and that left me
CoreWeave Raises $2.3 Billion in Funding for GPU Cloud and Data Centers
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, announced today that it has secured a $2.3 billion debt facility. The startup, which is poised to make billions off the generative AI boom with its GPU cloud, said the new financing will
Russia and Ukraine’s Rocketry Partnership Comes to an End
A last gasp in a long-standing link between Russia and Ukraine in the field of rocketry could come this week in an unlikely place—the rural wetlands of eastern Virginia—halfway around the world from the battlefields where the nations' military forces are locked in a deadly conflict. A commercial Antares rocket owned by the US aerospace
AMD Introduces Radeon Pro Graphics Cards for Creators and Animators
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled its AMD Radeon Pro W7500 and W7600 series graphics cards for professional workstations. These products are targeted at people such as creators, movie makers, geographic and seismic analysts, architects, product
IBM Team Develops Low-Power Analog AI Processor
Large language models, the AI tech behind things like Chat GPT, are just what their name implies: big. They often have billions of individual computational nodes and huge numbers of connections among them. All of that means lots of trips back and forth to memory and a whole lot of power use to make that
