Alex Woodie

As part of its Advancing AI launch event last week, AMD unveiled ROCm.ai, a new “developer experience” that introduces AI coding agents into AMD’s ROCm development tools for GPUs. According to AMD, ROCm.ai will dramatically lower the time and effort required to develop highly tuned and performant code. But will have an impact on the […]

An interesting thing happened last week, just a few days after the launch of two highly performant open-weight models from China: All of a sudden, the vast majority of the American AI industry came out in favor of open-weight models. Could this signify a permanent shift in our approach to AI?

The International Supercomputing Conference, ISC High Performance 2026, drew a record 4,035 attendees and 188 exhibitors from 64 and 26 countries, respectively. I have always found ISC to be thoughtfully planned with ample opportunities to network and reconnect with beloved colleagues. I hadn’t been able to attend ISC since 2019, and it was a joy […]

Amanda Randles Amanda Randles, a biomedical engineer and computer scientist, has been promoted to be a full professor in Duke University's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

The capability to weather disruptions is a hallmark of the IBM i platform and a major reason why so many companies around the world rely on it to run their businesses. To that end, IBM has enhanced the platform’s resilience capabilities as part of the recent Technology Refresh announcements with updates to Migrate While Active and the BRMS facility, as well as bringing a new VTL to IBM i.

As you have likely already heard, IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will retired last week after a 41-year IBM career, and was succeeded in that role by Kris Whitney, who previously was the IBM i platform’s chief engineer. But this is just one change among several in IBM i leadership in recent months.

The performance numbers that AMD shared during its Accelerating AI 2026 launch event two weeks ago are gaudy.

The key value (KV) cache has emerged as a major obstacle to rolling out AI services to customers, whether that's children creating animated cat videos or chemists hoping to accelerate scientific discovery.

As part of its Advancing AI launch event two weeks ago, AMD unveiled ROCm.ai, a new “developer experience” that introduces AI coding agents into AMD's ROCm development tools for GPUs. According to AMD, ROCm.ai will dramatically lower the time and effort required to develop highly tuned and performant code. But will have an impact on the market, which is dominated by CUDA, Nvidia's popular development environment?

Anthropic and OpenAI are two of the leading AI model labs, developing what are widely considered to be planet Earth's most capable AI models. So it was a little bit concerning when both companies recently announced that AI models undergoing cybersecurity testing in supposedly secure labs broke out of their sandboxes and attacked innocent third-parties on the Internet.