Matt Hamblen

Advances in AI reasoning models like a brand new one from Alibaba are coming fast and furious. | NeXt Curve analyst worries Chinese chatbots hosted in China could have bias or create privacy worries.

The name fits. | Efficient’s E1 embedded processor will be delivered in mid-2025 to offer infrastructure intelligence

Sweden-based ZeroPoint Technologies AB announced a new compression technology to tackle the exploding need for greater memory efficiency in data centers that are focused on AI compute, including La | ZeroPoint says it can expand effective memory capacity by up to 50%.

Teen inventor Ryan Honory recalls being traumatized by the deadly Camp wildfire in 2018 in Northern California. It killed 68 people and caused $16 billion in damage. | Ryan Honory, 17, founder of SensoRy AI, deploys wildfire detector in Orange County, California.

Intel remains “intensely focused on the search for a permanent CEO,” according to the company’s Chief Financial Officer and interim co-CEO David Zinsner speaking during Intel’s Jan. | The next Intel CEO faces a Herculean task, but a godlike manager overseeing an Intel foundry entity separate from Intel chip design is perhaps the new world order.

The global chip market reached its highest-ever sales for a year in 2024, topping $600 billion for the first time.  Meanwhile, the US chip industry is eagerly following  President Trump’s | Mature nodes including analog and sensors saw a 7% decline in 2024

President Trump’s explosive revelations about creating a Riviera of the Middle East on redeveloped Gaza land seemed ripe for an old-fashioned political cartoon. | A quick trip to the mobile ChatGPT illustration feature shows what’s available for free

Finding the probable cause of the fatal mid-air collision above the Potomac River next to Reagan National Airport rests  in the hands of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has pro | Various sensors are used in Black Hawks, but the one in the fatal crash had no TCAS

Updated with flight recorder and other details | President Trump said the crash appeared to be preventable, wondered why the control tower at Reagan National failed to tell the Black Hawk pilot how to evade the commercial jet.

President Trump said Thursday the federal role in the $500 billion Stargate Project  to build AI data centers nationwide will include a promise of “rapid approvals” for electricity generating | Remarks came during remote appearance at WEF event in Davos