Less Diplomacy Means ‘More Ammunition’

“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition” — Former Defense … More Secretary James Mattis. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch – Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images In his January Inaugural Address, Donald Trump said, “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by…

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New AMD Pollara 400GbE NIC targets AI and HPC networking with open standards and lower latency across large clusters

AMD ships Pollara 400 AI NIC for open high-speed AI networking Supports Ultra Ethernet standard with RDMA and RCCL for efficient communication Future Vulcano 800G AI NIC targets PCIe Gen6 and rack-scale GPU clusters AMD has begun shipping the Pensando Pollara 400 AI network card, part of the company’s push for open, high-speed data center…

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AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boom Chris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – and it faces a growing threat from artificial intelligence developers. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen…

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