Anthropic and Accenture today announced a partnership expansion intended to help enterprises move from AI pilots to full-scale deployment in a deal that makes Accenture one of Anthropic’s largest enterprise customers, according to Anthropic. Roughly 30,000 Accenture employees will be trained on Anthropic’s Claude flagship AI model. Elements of the announcement include: Accenture and Anthropic […]
The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories
December 5, 2025 by
By David Flynn, CEO, Hammerspace The age of AI factories is upon us. What once seemed like a niche blend of research computing and cloud services is converging into a new infrastructure paradigm—one tailored to the demands of high-throughput model training and refinement, massive inference workloads, and continuous data feedback loops. This article will explore […]
MLCommons Releases MLPerf AI Training v5.1 Results
November 14, 2025 by
Today, MLCommons announced new results for the MLPerf Training v5.1 benchmark suite, highlighting the rapid evolution and increasing richness of the AI ecosystem as well as significant performance improvements from new generations of systems. Go here to view the full results for MLPerf Training v5.1 and find additional information about the benchmarks. The MLPerf Training benchmark suite comprises […]
Google Cloud Announces GA of Ironwood TPUs
November 7, 2025 by
Google today announced GA on the Google Cloud Platform of three products built on custom silicon built for inference and agentic workloads: – Ironwood, Google’s seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, will be generally available in the coming weeks. The company said it is built for large-scale model training and complex reinforcement learning, as well as […]
News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52
October 14, 2025 by
A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….
Wall Street and the Impact of Agentic AI
September 26, 2025 by
As enterprise AI systems become more advanced, they are moving beyond task automation toward workflow intelligence. On Wall Street, this evolution is playing out where milliseconds can mean millions and decisions can ripple across markets. Financial institutions are beginning to embed agentic AI into core operations to surface insights and accelerate decision-making.
Podcast: The Annual Stanford AI Index Reveals a Fast-Changing Industry with Enormous Business and Social Impact
August 26, 2025 by
We’re delighted to again welcome Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University to discuss the latest edition of the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool. Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford in addition to being a fellow at the ….
The AI Superfactory: NVIDIA’s Multi-Data Center ‘Scale Across’ Ethernet
August 22, 2025 by
Tying multiple data centers together into an integrated whole is a hot topic in data center circles. The goal is to achieve performance beyond what a single data center or AI factory can deliver. But with power demands rising, integrating data centers across multiple location where there’s available power makes sense. But combining data centers […]
AI Agent Finance Startup Ramp Raises $500M
July 31, 2025 by
AI financial operations staartup Ramp announced its Series E-2, raising $500 million at a $22.5 billion valuation. With this round, New York-based Ramp has raised $1.9 billion in total equity financing. The company said it began generating cash flow earlier this year. ICONIQ led the round, with continued support from existing investors including ….
Steering Through the AI Storm: Enterprise Risk Leadership for the Automation Era
July 29, 2025 by
Organizations that integrate AI into their strategic core, supported by risk-aware leadership, will define the next chapter of business innovation. Success won’t belong to those with the flashiest tools, but to those with the clearest purpose, strongest governance, and boldest leadership.
