Nebius Chooses Kao Data’s Harlow Campus for Major AI Infrastructure Deployment
AI specialist Kao Data announced a 22‑megawatt, ten‑year AI infrastructure deployment for Nebius at its Harlow campus in the UK. The agreement forms part of Nebius’s roughly $2.2 billion investment in the British market and will host the Nebius AI Cloud platform and its Token Factory inference service. Powered entirely by renewable energy and equipped with direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling, the campus aims to support academic research, enterprise workloads, and the UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan. The deal underscores sustained demand for industrial‑scale AI compute despite a challenging macro environment.
DARPA Issues RFI on Embedding Intelligence Into Robotic Materials
DARPA has issued a Request for Information seeking concepts for materials that embed sensing, computation, and actuation directly into robotic structures. The agency aims to shift intelligence from centralized processors to the hardware itself, enabling faster, lower‑power, and more resilient...
PNNL Scientists Leverage AI to Optimize Glass Formulas for Liquid Radioactive Waste
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have applied AI-driven machine learning with active learning to design optimized glass formulations for immobilizing Hanford’s liquid radioactive waste. The new models increase waste loading, enabling roughly 1% more waste per 20% loading increase...
UC San Diego Students Get an Intro to AI in First AI Major Class
UC San Diego launched its first undergraduate AI major this winter, enrolling over 100 students in the inaugural CSE 25: Intro to AI course. The 10‑week, project‑based class covered supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, core mathematical tools, and ethical implications. About...
Fiber Broadband Association Report Positions Fiber as the ‘Fourth Pillar’ of AI
The Fiber Broadband Association unveiled a report titled “The Fourth Pillar of the AI Era,” arguing that fiber optics are now a core component of hyperscale AI systems rather than just a connectivity layer. The paper highlights that modern AI...
PSC, Pennsylvania Universities Form Keystone AI and Quantum Factory Initiative
Pennsylvania’s seven research‑intensive universities, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Commonwealth and Team Pennsylvania have launched the Keystone AI + Quantum Factory, a statewide network that pools high‑performance GPU/CPU and quantum resources. The initiative creates a shared computing infrastructure to accelerate AI and...
BCG Finds AI Will Transform Over Half of Jobs Within Three Years
Boston Consulting Group’s new report predicts that 50%‑55% of jobs will be significantly reshaped by AI within the next two to three years, while only 10%‑15% face full displacement over a longer horizon. The transformation focuses on automating routine tasks...
UCSD: AI-Enhanced Microscopy Produces Crisp, Real-Time Video Inside Live Cells
UC San Diego engineers have unveiled an AI‑driven upgrade to structured illumination microscopy called unrolled blind‑SIM (UBSIM). The algorithm delivers images twice as sharp as conventional microscopes and streams video at up to 50 frames per second. By embedding optical physics...
PyTorch Foundation Welcomes Helion as New Project for AI Kernel Development
The PyTorch Foundation announced that Helion, a Python‑embedded DSL for AI kernel development, is joining its portfolio alongside PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Ray and vLLM. Helion automates ahead‑of‑time autotuning and compiles to multiple backends such as Triton and TileIR, simplifying custom kernel...
JEDEC Announces May Forums on Next-Gen Memory for AI, Server, Cloud, and Mobile Computing
JEDEC will host two back‑to‑back forums on May 12‑13, 2026 in San Jose, focusing on next‑generation memory for mobile, edge, server, cloud and AI workloads. The events feature keynotes from industry giants such as AMD, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and...
AI Alliance Announces ‘Project Tapestry’ and Appoints Yann LeCun as Chief Science Advisor
The AI Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of more than 200 organizations, unveiled Project Tapestry, an open‑source platform designed for distributed, federated training of frontier AI models. The initiative aims to let institutions, industries, and nations collaborate on a shared base...
Kimia Raises $7M To Launch Its AI Knowledge Platform for the Chemical Industry
Kimia, a Sydney‑based startup, closed a $7 million seed round to launch an AI‑driven knowledge platform tailored for the chemical industry. The system pulls data from scientific literature, internal documents and supplier catalogs, structuring it for real‑time queries by commercial and...
MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v6.0 Benchmark Results
MLCommons unveiled the MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark suite, adding six new or updated datacenter tests and a fresh edge object‑detection benchmark. The release introduces an open‑weight GPT‑OSS 120B large‑language‑model test, an advanced‑reasoning DeepSeek‑R1 scenario, DLRMv3 sequential recommender, text‑to‑video generation, and...
ORNL Introduces ‘Photon’ Framework for Accelerating AI Vulnerability Discovery on Frontier
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s CAISER team unveiled Photon, a new framework that uses the Frontier exascale supercomputer to accelerate AI vulnerability discovery. By repurposing the DeepHyper training system, Photon runs thousands of jailbreak prompts in parallel, achieving over 95% GPU...
Optibrium Introduces Graphical Interface for QuanSA to Enhance Ligand-Based Affinity Predictions
Optibrium has released a new PyMOL plugin that adds a graphical user interface to its QuanSA ligand‑based affinity prediction tool. QuanSA uses physically‑motivated machine learning to deliver free‑energy perturbation‑level accuracy without needing a protein structure, dramatically lowering computational cost. The...