Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count these facilities as neighbors are now facing water shortages and straine [...]

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s [...]

5% GPU utilization: The $401 billion AI infrastructure problem enterprises can't keep ignoring

For the last 24 months, one narrative justified every over-provisioned data center and bloated IT budget: the GPU scramble. Silicon was the new oil, and H100s traded like contraband. Reserve capacity [...]

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis

1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organiz [...]

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl [...]

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darli [...]

The attack dominating financial services doesn't steal passwords. It resets MFA and steals the token.

The attacker who hit the most financial services organizations over the past 12 months never phished a password. They called an IT support line, convinced an employee to reset their MFA, and registere [...]

Protect your enterprise now from the Shai-Hulud worm and npm vulnerability in 6 actionable steps

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer workst [...]