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Maryland is getting its first undersea internet cable, and it’s a monster. Amazon Web Services announced plans for “Fastnet,” a dedicated fiber optic system linking the state’s Eastern Shore to Ireland with enough raw power to stream 12.5 million HD films simultaneously. The project, set to be operational in 2028, represents AWS’s bet that customer…

Impel, an automotive AI company, announced a public showing of its LLM and the release of Archias, an expert model designed to advance AI safety standards on Tuesday.  Impel built its custom verticalized LLM in partnership with AWS. The LLM is designed for the automotive retail environment. The model will replace the existing third-party LLM…

Following the surprising surge of DeepSeek’s reasoning-savvy genAI, Big Tech companies skidded over renewed questions regarding enormous AI investments. But Amazon is responding to DeepSeek’s claims of cheaper AI training by massively increasing its capital expenditures. CEO Andy Jassy contended that lower technology costs do not translate into reduced spending, underlining the firm’s strategy to…

Amazon recently doubled down on its Anthropic investment with an additional $4 billion, while NVIDIA reported another quarter of remarkable growth with sales hitting $35.1 billion. Meanwhile, a debate emerged at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit about whether AI development is hitting a scaling wall, with industry leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Scale AI’s Alexandr…

Yes, questions remain about whether AI chipmaker NVIDIA can maintain its momentum in 2025. NVIDIA’s upcoming Blackwell AI chips have encountered thermal problems when integrated into server racks designed to house up to 72 units. Despite these recent technical hurdles, the company remains an innovation juggernaut. 1. Why NVIDIA is the R&D leader of 2024…