JERUSALEM—Nvidia Corp. said it was building Israel’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer to meet soaring customer demand for AI applications. Nvidia, the world’s most valuable listed chip company, said on May 29 the cloud-based system would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and be partly operational by the end of 2023. Gilad Shainer, a…
Scientists Reveal How Powerful the Human Brain Is Compared to the Fastest Supercomputers in the World
It is a humbling thing to realize, in this age of information, that our human brain still remains such an enigma. As we spend millions on developing ever more sophisticated supercomputers and expend enormous amounts of energy powering our devices, the ever-handy, efficient, and affordable human brain outperforms our top technology in a litany of…
US Knocks Japan Off Top Spot in Race for World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The United States has reclaimed the top spot from Japan in the race to create the world’s fastest supercomputer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) massive Frontier supercomputer was declared the world’s fastest computer on May 30 on the TOP500 ranking, and is the first to achieve the exascale threshold of one quintillion calculations per second, the laboratory said in a…
This Day In Market History: World Chess Champion Defeats IBM Supercomputer
Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated IBM chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue. Where The Market Was The S&P 500 was at 647.98 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 5,503.32. What Else…
Russia’s Sberbank, Enhancing AI Offering, Unveils Second Supercomputer
MOSCOW—A second supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades form part of Sberbank’s enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software, Chief Technology Officer David Rafalovsky told Reuters on Wednesday. Russia’s largest lender is investing more in non-banking services as it shifts towards offering more technology systems, even last year dropping…
‘Military-Civil Fusion’ Information Secretly Removed by the Chinese Regime, Leaked Documents Shows
News Analysis A series of internal documents responding to a municipal internet censorship authority reveals that information related to the Chinese Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) strategy was removed from a local bureaus’ official websites in June 2018, only months after a trade war had broken out with the United States. The Epoch Times recently obtained documents…
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