Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than a top Intel server CPU
Fully homomorphic encryption chip speeds operations 5,000-fold — Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor editor. — SUMMARYLinkedIn:Samuel K. Moore.Forums:Hacker News,r/technews, andSlashd...
Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights
Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating …
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of badly informed decisions remains high
a trend linked with the phrase ‘The computer said to do this.’” [embedded post]
The US-led war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is “a bit panicked” about the memory chip shortage, and more supply may arrive in nine months; prices are up 80%+ in 2026
More supply could come to market in nine months, executive says — The chief executive of China's largest contract chip maker …
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers, such as electricians, in the US to keep up
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.
US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract
The head of a U.S. CHIPS and Science Act-funded center devoted to digital twins for chip manufacturing has informed its 121 members …
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion
Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior — Several recent studies have shown that artificial-intelligence …
Even Realities' G2 glasses hands-on: lighter than the G1 at 36g, subtle notifications that cross the eye line, and a “passive wearable” akin to the Apple Watch
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Data from 300K+ pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals
OpenAI's effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.
How researchers at Microsoft, IBM, and other organizations are using AI to speed up the search for new materials and chemicals for batteries
Microsoft and IBM pinpoint candidates from millions of options — Andrew Moseman is the online communications editor at Caltech and a freelance contributor to IEEE Spectrum.
Privacy startup Duality says it has developed a private LLM inference framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption to let LLMs answer encrypted prompts
Rina Diane Caballar / IEEE Spectrum :
Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles like battery life, reliability, safety, and low demand for large deployments
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum :
Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025
Baidu's autonomous vehicles will be available on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said in a statement Tuesday.
Researchers detail All-Topographic Neural Networks, claiming they better mimic human spatial biases and consume less energy than other machine vision networks
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A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, billed as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer
World-first biocomputing platform hits the market — Shannon Cuthrell is a freelance journalist covering business and technology.
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch that will be able to grab ~75% of its warehouse items, rolling out globally in the next few years
Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses
A look at the state of AI in 2025 across training and inference costs, carbon footprint, US vs. China, investment activity, bills proposed in the US, and more
If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming. AI is a bubble.
Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based Robotics and Robotics-ER, to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before”
Gemini Robotics also makes robots more dexterous, allowing them to perform more precise tasks, like folding a piece of paper.