The Frontier
Science & tech breakthroughs in AI models, hardware, and computing that define what's possible
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Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process. Intel will ship its first Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 laptop CPUs on the new 18A process later this month, introducing 14 SKUs with integrated Arc B390 GPUs and positioning the company to compete directly with TSMC-built chips.
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AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES. At CES, AMD unveiled its Ryzen AI 400 Series PC processors—12-core, 24-thread chips claiming 1.3× multitasking and 1.7× content-creation gains over rivals—expanding the firm’s AI-accelerated PC lineup first introduced in 2024.
Capital & Control
Tracking the flow of capital and influence that shapes the tech landscape
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AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention. AWS quietly lifted on-demand prices for its high-end EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by about 15 percent, moving the p5e.48xlarge instance from US$34.61 to US$39.80 per hour and the p5en.48xlarge from US$36.18 to US$41.61 across most regions. The hike, posted on a Saturday, is the first documented increase for AWS GPU instances and immediately raises training and inference costs for customers relying on H100/H200 clusters.
Infrastructure & Power
The physical backbone of AI: compute, data centers, supply chains, and the geopolitics of energy
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Nvidia unveils self-driving car tech as it seeks to power more products with AI. Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo, an on-board AI platform that adds chain-of-thought reasoning to autonomous vehicles, and announced forthcoming Vera Rubin automotive chips at CES. Mercedes-Benz will be the first automaker to ship driverless cars using the system in the United States later this year before global rollout.
The Performance Edge
Peak performance science for sustained execution in high-stakes environments
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Stanford’s AI Predicts Disease Risk From a Single Night of Sleep. Stanford Medicine scientists report an AI model that can evaluate physiological data from a single night’s sleep and predict risks for conditions such as heart disease and diabetes years in advance. The system analyzes sleep‐stage patterns without requiring continuous wearables and outperformed existing multi-night screening methods.
Digital Defense
Threats and defenses shaping the global security landscape
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Are Copilot prompt injection flaws vulnerabilities or AI limits?. A security engineer disclosed four Copilot weaknesses—prompt-injection that exposes system prompts, a file-type policy bypass via base64 uploads, and command execution in Copilot’s Linux sandbox. Microsoft rejected all reports as non-serviceable, arguing the issues are inherent model limitations, not security flaws.
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