AMD Helios: 2.9 EFLOPS, 31 TB of HBM4, and the Rack-Scale Bet Against NVIDIA
AMD officially launched Helios on August 21st — a rack-scale AI system with 72 liquid-cooled MI455X GPUs, 2.9 exaflops of compute, and deployments already underway at Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. »
100+ Tech Giants Warn: AI-Powered Cyberattacks Are About to Explode
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and over 100 companies signed an open letter on August 27th warning that AI-enabled attacks on critical infrastructure are imminent — and that the window to prepare is closing fast. »
Linux 7.3-rc1 Lands With AMD Zen 6, a Native Steam Controller Driver, and Apple Thunderbolt
Linus Torvalds dropped the first 7.3 release candidate on August 30th — it's nearly 41 million lines of code and brings AMD Zen 6 enablement, a long-overdue native driver for the original Steam Controller, and initial Apple M1–M3 Thunderbolt support. »
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches Today with 100× Hubble's Field of View
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off today on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a wide-field infrared imager that will survey billions of galaxies and hunt for dark energy signatures. »
Claude Opus 5 Just Solved Every IMO 2026 Problem — Without Any Tools
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored a perfect 42/42 on the 2026 International Math Olympiad without code execution or external tools, marking full saturation of one of AI's most demanding reasoning benchmarks. »