Microsoft is moving past the traditional AI race and developing what it calls Humanist Superintelligence. The company claims its first medical diagnostic system has already surpassed human accuracy, but major questions remain about safety, oversight, energy demands, and whether such controlled superintelligence can ever be kept within strict boundaries.
Amazon Web Services has unveiled Fastnet, a new subsea cable that will link Maryland with County Cork by 2028. The system will deliver more than 320 terabits per second of capacity and is designed to strengthen AWS’s resilience against physical disruptions to transatlantic infrastructure.
AMD has revealed its MegaPod, a massive AI supercomputing rack powered by 256 Instinct MI500 GPUs, directly challenging Nvidia’s dominance with its SuperPod. This piece breaks down what MegaPod means for AI, cloud infrastructure, and the GPU arms race.
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