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If you run foundation model (FM) workloads on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, you know the work is rarely a single task. It is a chain of dependent ones. An infrastructure team creates the network and control plane, attaches accelerator capacity, and installs cluster dependencies in the right order. It also prepares
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A Physical AI system, such as a robot or autonomous vehicle (AV) that translates real-world data into physical actions, can’t be built in a single training job. Instead, it takes a continuous pipeline: a loop of generating synthetic data, post-training perception and policy models, so the system understands its
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When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But migrating to Spanner without taking production services offline was a daunting engineering challenge: As the internal team responsible for the application,
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As a global media and technology company connecting hundreds of millions of users to finance, sports, and entertainment platforms, Yahoo operates a massive data infrastructure where analytics workloads must run continuously at high speed. In deadline-driven data environments, relying on fixed virtual machine (VM) configurations creates a brittle system; if
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Disaster recovery (DR) at scale is hard. When thousands of microservices span multiple AWS Regions, coordinating a reliable failover becomes a major operational challenge. At Intuit, we operate at this scale. We support products that millions of people rely on to run their businesses and manage their finances. These include
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For the last few years, AI engineering has operated under a surprisingly simple assumption: Bigger models are better models. More parameters. More training data. More GPUs. More compute. And to be fair, that strategy has worked remarkably well. Scaling has produced huge improvements in language understanding, coding, reasoning, multimodal capabilities,
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We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms of Use for details. As covered in the Daily Tech Insider newsletter this week, AI grew more powerful, more embedded, and harder
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Say a sad goodbye to unlimited Xbox cloud play, folks, because Microsoft will soon be enforcing strict monthly playtime caps for Xbox Game Pass subscribers while simultaneously opening up cloud access to non-subscribers. Beginning this November, Microsoft will end its unlimited streaming policy, shifting to a tier-based allowance system that
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In the packed halls of Gamescom with so many games to see, it's easy to get tetchy if a session goes on for too long when there's another appointment you have to rush off to see. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve was a rare exception
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Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans to invest another $250 million in India over the next three to four years as it pushes beyond gaming into AI, robotics, and deep tech. Announced Friday, the new commitment will take Krafton’s
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2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes Microsoft is upping the ante on Exchange Server security, warning that outdated on-premises systems will soon be blocked from sending email to Exchange Online. From the second week of September, Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 machines
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As long as you have enough memory, it is possible to run even a frontier large language model (LLM) on just about any hardware. Big, fancy GPUs aren’t needed. A somewhat modern CPU will do the job. To be clear, it wouldn’t do the job well (it would
