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Technology
AMD said in an Oct. 1 X post that “another AMD Helios system enters the wild” and that Vamsi Boppana and Uday Ruddarraju visited for a lab tour last week. The post tagged OpenAI, but it did not establish that OpenAI is operating the system.
Technology
AMD says Signal65’s RAG testing, hosted via TensorWave, found the MI355X had roughly twice the concurrent-user headroom before breaching the evaluated SLA.
Gaming
IGN says AMD users reported many bugs and visual artifacts following the game's September 29 release, while it seemed to work well on Nvidia graphics cards.
AI
A user calls Vera a decent headnode CPU but favors AMD or Intel for reinforcement-learning (RL) and agent sandboxes.
Technology
AMD shared CTO Mark Papermaster’s perspective on agentic AI: autonomous agents can run tasks in parallel.
Technology
VideoCardz reports that Microsoft says its limited Surface portfolio is the main reason there are no AMD-powered Surface PCs.
Technology
AMD’s published EPYC 9006 Venice server CPU lineup covers 31 Zen 6 models, spanning from the 8-core EPYC 9016 at $700 to the 256-core EPYC 9996 at $14,904 across SP7 and SP8 platforms.
World & Business
A market watcher says finding tight spots in leading names on pullbacks has helped them withstand volatility. They see AMD holding a bullish gap as a sign of strength.
World & Business
Politico describes tech companies stepping up outreach to the administration as they lose ground in Congress, where concern about AI’s risks is growing.
AI
World Labs says advancing spatial and physical intelligence means scaling its efforts and reach while getting closer to hardware.
AI
TechCrunch reports that World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. World Labs says joining AMD will help it scale its work on spatial and physical intelligence.
AI
A post says AMD acquired World Labs to pursue “world models” that help AI understand 3D space and physics.
Technology
A reply says the first gigawatt would begin in 2027 and describes AMD as challenging Nvidia in AI compute and data center chips.
AI
Grok says Fei-Fei Li would join as chief scientist under the reported World Labs deal.
AI
World Labs co-founder Fei-Fei Li says joining AMD will bring its spatial AI work closer to hardware. She plans to become an AMD executive vice president and chief scientist.
Technology
Fortune reports that AMD, led by Lisa Su, became the first company with a female CEO to be worth more than $1 trillion.
World & Business
Fortune reports that AMD, led by CEO Lisa Su, became the first company with a female CEO to be worth more than $1 trillion.
World & Business
Reuters says the all-stock deal would give AMD a foothold in research on physical AI systems that can understand and simulate the world. Nikkei Asia says Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
AI
World Labs says Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, working directly with CEO Lisa Su. The company says the move will bring its spatial AI research closer to the hardware.
Technology
World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li says she will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. AMD says the deal would bring researchers and model experts into its work on future AI infrastructure.
Technology
CNBC reports, citing sources, that Hugging Face also drew potential acquisition interest from AMD and Salesforce before Nvidia agreed to buy the open-source platform.
Technology
A separate post calls the safety effort Nvidia’s “Open Agent Safety Platform” and claims it monitors AI agents’ actions to block unauthorized operations.
World & Business
A market roundup says AMD announced the deal after the September 28 close, following a 3.6% decline in its shares during regular trading. Another post frames the acquisition as a bet on physical AI.
Technology
VideoCardz reports MINISFORUM’s MS-S1 MAX-P495 launches at $7,399 with 192GB of memory, and presents it as the first AMD “Gorgon Halo” PC with a Max+ PRO 495.
AI
A post asks whether AMD still gives Hugging Face exclusive access to next-generation hardware and whether Hugging Face will make Nemotron3 Ultra work on the MI455X.
Technology
BGR says checking a motherboard’s BIOS for one setting could help aging RAM eke out a little more capability.
Technology
VideoCardz reports that new performance builds and a launcher reduce the speed and setup barriers for community-made Radeon support.
Technology
The rack-scale system combines more than 18,000 CDNA 5 compute units with 4,600 Zen 6 CPU cores for large AI workloads.
AI
AMD says its code walkthrough takes developers from a baseline GPU kernel through optimizations including asynchronous memory transfers and Tensor Data Movers, showing how each technique affects performance.
World & Business
A user's September 17 market recap says the Dow fell more than 600 points while Intel, AMD, HPE and Dell moved higher.
