University of Buffalo Awarded $40M to Buy NVIDIA Gear for AI Center

June 30, 2025 — Empire AI, the New York State-based research consortium that is advancing artificial intelligence for the public good, will receive $40 million for its supercomputing center at the University of Buffalo. The funding, announced by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday, will help launch the center’s second phase, known as Empire […]

National Lab’s Machine Learning Project to Advance Seismic Monitoring Across Energy Industries

A new initiative designed to revolutionize seismic monitoring and forecasting using real time, advanced machine learning (ML) technologies is coming to the West Texas/New Mexico area. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund awarded $1.8 million in funding to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The project is known as RECONNECT, or the Real-time […]

Palantir and The Nuclear Company Partner on Platform to Scale Nuclear Deployment

DENVER — Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) saw its stock hit record highs today after announcing a product partnership with The Nuclear Company, a builder of nuclear power plants in the U.S. The news comes as demand for clean power escalates from data centers as AI factories are planned for construction in the U.S. and […]

HPE Unveils AI Factory Solutions with Blackwell Infrastructure

At HPE’s big Discover event here in Las Vegas today, the company rolled out a series of news, including a high-end AI factory solution built with NVIDIA GPUs and networking targeting the exploding AI-at-scale market. The announcements are an expansion of its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio, a core component of which is HPE […]

Report Released on Enterprise AI Trust: 42% Don’t Trust Outputs

“…. the report finds that while 58% of organizations have implemented or optimized data observability programs – systems that monitor detect, and resolve data quality and pipeline issues in real-time – 42% still say they do not trust the outputs ….”

Voltage Park Partners with VAST Data

AI operating system company VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced that Voltage Park, the enterprise-grade AI factory company, has partnered with VAST to deliver the high-performance data services required for demanding AI workloads. Voltage Park has deployed ….

Datavault AI to Deploy AI-Driven HPC for Biofuel R&D

Datavault AI said it will develop an AI-driven multi-modal machine learning system for biofuel crop optimization. The initiative focuses on increasing fatty acid metabolism efficiency in Brassica napus (canola) using HPC modeling, supporting the EPA’s goal to replace up to 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day ….

OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency

OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]

AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture

AMD issued a raft of news at their Advancing AI 2025 event this week, an update on the company’s response to NVIDIA’s 90-plus percent market share dominance in the GPU and AI markets. And the company offered a sneak peak at what to expect from their next generation of EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs. Here’s […]

FedEx Deploys Hellebrekers Robotic Sorting Arm in Germany

Frankfurt a. M., June 13, 2025 — Federal Express said it has introduced an AI-powered sorting robot at its air network location in Cologne, Germany, the first of its kind in the European FedEx network. The Cologne air network location is the largest of seven FedEx air network facilities in Germany, employing over 900 team […]