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TONTOU Attack Bypasses Spectre v2 Defenses on AMD and Intel
MIT CSAIL researchers show a new attack, TONTOU, that uses timed interrupts to re-poison branch predictors and bypass Spectre v2 defenses on AMD and Intel CPUs.
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DeepSeek Signals Major API Price Hike Amid Surging Demand
DeepSeek plans a significant increase in API prices as demand for V4-Flash surges, ending the era of ultra-cheap access for developers.
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Longsys Shows Edge AI Storage Fusion at FMS 2026
Longsys is combining high-bandwidth memory, SSDs, and cache software to target the bandwidth and capacity limits of local AI systems.
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Olares Brings Personal AI Cloud to IFA 2026
Olares will show its RTX 5090M-powered personal AI cloud at IFA Berlin, putting local models and user-owned data at the center of its European debut.
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Kioxia GP1 SSD Hits 10 Million IOPS for AI Workloads
Kioxia's GP1 Series PCIe 6.0 SSD reaches 10 million IOPS so flash can act as a GPU memory extension for AI, with samples due by year end.
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Anthropic Will Design Its Own Chips to Power Claude
Anthropic confirmed it is building a custom silicon team to co-design chips and models, a step that reduces its reliance on Nvidia as Claude demand grows.
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SpaceX and Nvidia Team Up on Starmind AI1 Satellite Compute
SpaceX and Nvidia are designing Starmind AI1, a satellite compute payload with Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, as SpaceX commits exclusively to Nvidia.
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Nvidia Open-Sources cuFile for Direct GPU Storage Access
Nvidia is open-sourcing cuFile, the API that lets GPUs read and write storage directly, with Google, Intel, and Meta as founding maintainers.
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Memory Bandwidth Is the New Bottleneck in AI Hardware
AI accelerators are running out of memory bandwidth before they run out of compute, and the whole stack is being rebuilt around it.
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The Second Hand Hardware Market Is Booming
Used and refurbished hardware is becoming a first choice for businesses and enthusiasts, and the industry is reorganizing around it.