Not everything Disney (NYSE: DIS) touches ends in a happily ever after. The media giant's short-lived partnership with ChatGPT parent OpenAI is over before it had a chance to begin. OpenAI is shutting down Sora , its controversial and disruptive text-to-video generative AI model. The end of Sora also ends Disney's plan to invest $1 billion in OpenAI. That deal -- signed in December -- would eventu...
Not everything Disney (NYSE: DIS) touches ends in a happily ever after. The media giant's short-lived partnership with ChatGPT parent OpenAI is over before it had a chance to begin. OpenAI is shutting down Sora , its controversial and disruptive text-to-video generative AI model. The end of Sora also ends Disney's plan to invest $1 billion in OpenAI. That deal -- signed in December -- would eventually allow Sora users to access some of Disney's iconic characters for its AI output. No Sora, no deal. Continue reading
Iran To Attack Logistical Hubs In Israel, Gulf After Its Tallest Bridge Destroyed Earlier we reported there are signs that the US and Israel are expanding attacks on Iran civilian infrastructure, after reports emerged Thursday that fresh airstrikes hit a highway bridge connecting Tehran and Karaj, according to Fars News Agency. Several people were injured, and multiple areas of Karaj were also str...
Iran To Attack Logistical Hubs In Israel, Gulf After Its Tallest Bridge Destroyed Earlier we reported there are signs that the US and Israel are expanding attacks on Iran civilian infrastructure, after reports emerged Thursday that fresh airstrikes hit a highway bridge connecting Tehran and Karaj, according to Fars News Agency. Several people were injured, and multiple areas of Karaj were also struck. The bridge was actually just constructed, having been inaugurated earlier this year. Fars identified it as the B1 bridge, dubbed the highest bridge in the Middle East . Tehran also continues to get pummeled hard, amid reports that the prior 24 hours saw the biggest wave of Iranian missiles and cluster munitions on Tel Aviv to date. In response to the bridge attack, Iran state media says the country's armed forces are preparing a retaliatory escalation, with plans to hit Israel's core logistical backbone . Tehran's strategy focuses on crippling three critical arteries that sustain Israel's war machine, per state media reports reference in Newsquawk . At the top of the list are key north-south rail chokepoints , among them the Yarkon Bridge - which reportedly handles the vast majority of heavy IDF military transport. There's also the Jezreel tunnel - described as the sole route for moving fuel and ammunition from Port of Haifa inland. At the same time, Iran is eyeing the alternative logistics lifeline: the overland corridor running from Jebel Ali through Saudi Arabia and Jordan toward Israel. * * * ReadyWise Spring Sale - ends April 10 . Stock up. * * * With maritime routes under threat, this desert supply chain has become increasingly vital to Israeli military logistics. Also, from Tehran's perspective, these locations highly vulnerable to precision strikes that could disrupt fuel flows and strain Israel's air power. Additional targets reportedly include high-value infrastructure such as the Port of Haifa itself (Haifa's oil refinery has already been hit a couple times)...
Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ:LITE) has emerged as a defining infrastructure play of the AI era. The San Jose-based optical and photonic products maker supplies the laser components, transceivers, and optical circuit switches that let hyperscale data centers move data at the speeds modern AI demands. As models grow larger and server interconnections denser, optical solutions fill ... Lumentum’s Path t...
Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ:LITE) has emerged as a defining infrastructure play of the AI era. The San Jose-based optical and photonic products maker supplies the laser components, transceivers, and optical circuit switches that let hyperscale data centers move data at the speeds modern AI demands. As models grow larger and server interconnections denser, optical solutions fill ... Lumentum’s Path to $1,000 per Share Runs Straight Through the AI Optics Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) reports first-quarter 2026 results on April 16, before the market opens. With AI demand still running hot and management guiding for another strong quarter, the real question is not whether TSM beats, but by how much. Momentum Meets a Higher Bar TSM closed out 2025 on a strong note. Q4 2025 ... How Big Will Taiwan Semiconductor’s Beat Be on April 16?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) reports first-quarter 2026 results on April 16, before the market opens. With AI demand still running hot and management guiding for another strong quarter, the real question is not whether TSM beats, but by how much. Momentum Meets a Higher Bar TSM closed out 2025 on a strong note. Q4 2025 ... How Big Will Taiwan Semiconductor’s Beat Be on April 16?
Storm Erminio has caused widespread destruction across several regions of Greece, including the Attica region, where a man lost his life in Nea Makri. On the Mediterranean island of Crete, skies turned an eerie orange on Wednesday as winds of up to force 9 on the Beaufort scale carried dust from North Africa, forcing several flights to be rerouted Continue reading...
Storm Erminio has caused widespread destruction across several regions of Greece, including the Attica region, where a man lost his life in Nea Makri. On the Mediterranean island of Crete, skies turned an eerie orange on Wednesday as winds of up to force 9 on the Beaufort scale carried dust from North Africa, forcing several flights to be rerouted Continue reading...
Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago , is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4 , which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has ...
Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago , is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4 , which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so it's dumping the custom Gemma license. Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean plenty of things, of course. The two large Gemma variants, 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense, are designed to run unquantized in bfloat16 format on a single 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU. Granted, that's a $20,000 AI accelerator, but it's still local hardware. If quantized to run at lower precision, these big models will fit on consumer GPUs. Google also claims it has focused on reducing latency to really take advantage of Gemma's local processing. The 26B Mixture of Experts model activates only 3.8 billion of its 26 billion parameters in inference mode, giving it much higher tokens-per-second than similarly sized models. Meanwhile, 31B Dense is more about quality than speed, but Google expects developers to fine-tune it for specific uses. Read full article Comments
d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition of GigaIO's data center business, a systems engineering organization with deep expertise in rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnects.
d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition of GigaIO's data center business, a systems engineering organization with deep expertise in rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnects.
Microsoft (MSFT) says it’s on a path to developing high-powered frontier models, an acknowledgment that it is looking to wean itself off of its dependence on partner models from OpenAI (OPAI.PVT).
Microsoft (MSFT) says it’s on a path to developing high-powered frontier models, an acknowledgment that it is looking to wean itself off of its dependence on partner models from OpenAI (OPAI.PVT).