The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output
Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd , @broximar , @zhugeex.com , @tprstl...
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints
Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go. Bluesky: @peat.org , @jenlucpiquant , @smcgrath.phd , and @sa...
A survey of 730 developers: 75% have tried AI, 35.6% are AI optimists, 38.4% are AI pessimists, freelancers use AI more, 50%+ of employers pay for AI, and more
We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd Bluesky: Scott McGrath / @smcgrath.phd : I...
AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models
why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI co-founder says AI is reaching “peak data” as it hits the limits of the internet Kylie Robison / The V...