Intel Arc Pro B70 Brings 32GB VRAM to Local AI for $949
Intel's Arc Pro B70 launched on March 25 with 32GB GDDR6 and 367 TOPS for $949, undercutting NVIDIA's RTX Pro 4000 by $850. The hardware case is strong. The software story is not.
Articles Tagged "AI Infrastructure"
Microsoft Commits $10B to Japan AI Infrastructure
Microsoft pledges $10B to Japan for AI data centers, cybersecurity cooperation, and workforce training from 2026 to 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet.
Anthropic Revenue Triples to $30B on Enterprise Push
Anthropic's run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion in 2026, tripling from $9 billion at end of 2025, as the company secures 3.5 gigawatts of next-gen TPU compute from Broadcom starting in 2027.
AutoKernel - AI Agents That Write Faster GPU Kernels
RightNow AI releases AutoKernel, an open-source MIT-licensed framework that runs an autonomous LLM agent loop overnight to produce optimized Triton kernels for any PyTorch model.
Meta's KernelEvolve Automates Kernel Tuning in Production
Meta's KernelEvolve AI agent autonomously generates and optimizes hardware kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, and MTIA chips, delivering over 60% inference gains in production.
AutoAgent Builds Its Own Harness, Tops Two Benchmarks
Kevin Gu's MIT-licensed AutoAgent lets a meta-agent engineer and hill-climb its own agent harness overnight, claiming the top GPT-5 slot on TerminalBench and first place on SpreadsheetBench.
Cloudflare Launches EmDash as Open-Source WordPress Rival
Cloudflare's EmDash is an MIT-licensed CMS built on Astro 6.0 that sandboxes plugins in isolated Workers, ships a built-in MCP server, and targets WordPress's 42.5% share of the web.
Arm Claims Agents Need New Silicon - Intel Disagrees
Arm says its 136-core AGI CPU is purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. Intel's data center chief - Arm's former head of solutions engineering - says the claim overstates what's actually new.
Microsoft Pledges $5.5B for Singapore AI and Cloud
Microsoft commits $5.5B to Singapore's cloud and AI infrastructure through 2029, one day after a separate $1B+ Thailand pledge, as Brad Smith tours Asia cementing Microsoft's position as the West's preferred AI infrastructure partner in the region.
OpenAI's $122B Round Adds Retail Access Before IPO
OpenAI closed its funding round at $122 billion and $852 billion valuation on March 31, with $3 billion going to retail investors via banks for the first time.
llm-d Joins CNCF - Kubernetes Gets a Native LLM Inference Stack
IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d to the CNCF at KubeCon EU, giving Kubernetes a production-grade distributed LLM inference framework built on vLLM.
Starcloud Raises $170M to Put AI Compute in Orbit
The 15-person startup that launched an H100 GPU into space last November just became the fastest Y Combinator company ever to reach unicorn status.
