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Tom's Hardware AISiliconAI model gets a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled directly into its weights, then runs DOOM on it AI engineer Divyansh Agrawal has revealed the Qwenputer . Described in its most basic terms, Qwenputer is an experimental blend of the stock Qwen 3.5 4B AI LLM with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled and…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAnthropic confirms new Claude Code limits to prevent game cloning, users report blocking reverse engineering tasks Anthropic's recent move to have Claude Code deny video game cloning and possibly reverse engineering efforts has come under heavy fire from the software development community.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconElon Musk mocks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that PCs having RAM is terrible SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken to X, the social network that he owns, to mock OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's stance that it's "quite terrible" for home computer users to have DRAM in their machines.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconBrazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court's AI with prompt injection hidden in filing A Brazilian labor court fined two lawyers after it discovered that their latest filing contained hidden text that attempted to influence its AI tool. Prof.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ AI researchers at ycombinator and Olam Labs recently tested AI agent swarms in gaming scenarios. Minecraft and its various game modes were the sandboxes where 100s of agents were unleashed to work…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconFirm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs Darkbloom, a decentralized AI inference network that aggregates and sells spare compute capacity from Macs, told its members to expect revenues to fall as token prices continue to drop.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAnthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering Reverse-engineering games for converting them between systems is currently a hot topic , and it's getting messier by the day.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet controlled motorized surgery rig Exin Therapeutics, a biotech startup focusing on next-generation neurotherapeutics, claims it has successfully conducted brain surgery on a mouse using an AI agent.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconA primer on key AI LLM concepts — KV cache, weights, quantization, and how inference actually works As hardware for running local AI models continues to move to the forefront, such as Nvidia's RTX Spark, a new set of acronyms, definitions, and terminology is popping up.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconCisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months In a world where youth unemployment is growing as AI replaces more and more entry-level jobs, Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel is going for a different approach.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconGoogle hit with criminal probe over unapproved AI data center deforestation A criminal investigation into the environmental damage caused by Google’s Finnish subsidiary has been launched .
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAI demand triggers massive PCB shortage for PC makers as order books full until 2030 The AI industry continues to gobble up manufacturing resources that were once dedicated to serving PC, smart device, and gadget makers.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconDept of Justice reportedly probes Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face AI platform acquisition Nvidia is reportedly facing questions from the United States Department of Justice over whether its purchase of Hugging Face will have an impact on competition in the growing AI space.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconOur first step at defining a CPU benchmark for agentic AI Agentic AI has set off a firestorm in the world of CPUs over the past six months, yet it’s an area of performance that still doesn’t have solid, repeatable benchmarks to evaluate where the latest…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconFujifilm plans 5x production boost of 100TB magnetic storage tapes driven by skyrocketing AI storage demand Fujifilm plans to boost production of magnetic tape by as much as 5x as it works to keep up with demand for the data storage medium that has seen a jump in popularity amid ongoing global AI data…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAnthropic’s IPO filing shows most of its compute goes to R&D, not serving customers Anthropic spent less than a third of its $8.9 billion first-half compute bill on serving customers, with most of the rest going into training, research, and running Claude internally, its S-1 filing…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconMan granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work David Durman, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK), has successfully argued that using AI violates his beliefs as a humanist and has received Title VII religious accommodation…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconMalaysia seizes $12 million worth of advanced AI chips hidden inside 30 servers Malaysian customs have seized over $12 million (49.5 million Malaysian ringgit) worth of advanced AI chips in a single bust, as the country clamps down on a suspected semiconductor smuggling…
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAmazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive Amazon wants its engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconStandalone Nvidia Vera CPUs land in Oracle Cloud's multi-gigawatt deployment Nvidia and Oracle have announced general availability of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and Vera CPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters at Oracle AI World on Tuesday.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconJapan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in action on Japan's ANN News recently. The rail truck-mounted mech was being used by Japanese railway firm JR East to clear tree branches…
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