AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal

The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack ...

CES 2026: AI compute sees a shift from training to inference

In recent years, the big money has flowed toward LLMs and training; but this year, the emphasis is shifting toward AI ...

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AI will need 10 'yottaflops' of compute — here's what that actually means

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AI will soon need "10 yottaflops" of compute — a scale of computing power the world has never built before.
Seeking Alpha

Sam Altman's Explanation Of Compute Demand And Value In The AI Trade

In a recent appearance on the Big Technology podcast, Sam Altman was asked about OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion “commitment” to various players in the AI value chain. His answer is a good encapsulation of why ...
Data Center Frontier

xAI’s AI Factories: From Colossus to MACROHARDRR in the Gigawatt Era

From a converted factory in Memphis to a planned $20B, 2-gigawatt campus in Mississippi, Elon Musk’s xAI is building “AI ...
Science Daily

Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...
Reuters

Musk's xAI buys third building to expand AI compute power

Dec 30 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Tuesday his artificial intelligence startup xAI has bought a third building to expand its infrastructure, aiming to boost training capacity to nearly 2 gigawatts ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...

Flexcompute and Bramble CFD Partner to Deliver Best-in-Class Motorsport Simulation Workflows

Flexcompute's GPU-native Flow360, combined with Bramble CFD's cloud platform and motorsport expertise, delivers customer-ready simulation workflows for high-performance vehicle aerodynamic development ...
VentureBeat

Inference is splitting in two — Nvidia’s $20B Groq bet explains its next act

Nvidia’s $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Musk’s xAI Buys Building to Expand ‘Colossus’ Data Center

Elon Musk’s xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building in the area that will bring the company’s artificial intelligence computing ...
The Verge

Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026

The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. is a news writer covering all things ...