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Meta’s USDC pilot draws fire as Senator Warren demands stablecoin transparency

9 May 2026 at 00:30
Warren’s letter asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain by May 20 which stablecoins and wallets Meta is using, how it selects issuers like Circle, what data it collects from linked wallets and how it will separate social and financial businesses. Senator…

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AMD Has Begun Sampling MI450 GPUs & Also Engaged With Customers On MI500, Largest AI Deployments Are For Inference

6 May 2026 at 02:30

AMD Has Begun Sampling MI450 GPUs & Also Engaged With Customers On MI500, Largest AI Deployments Are For Inference

AMD's MI450 GPUs are now being sampled to customers, and there's already huge interest in the MI500 series within AI Inference data centers. Customers Are Lining Up To Deploy AMD's MI450 GPUs As Sampling Begins, Next-Gen MI500 Also Gains Traction In The "AI Inferencing" Segment During the Q1 2026 earnings call, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed that they have started sampling the first Instinct MI450 GPUs to "lead" customers, and the chips remain on track for deployments at various data centers in the Helios rack, which will see production shipments commence in the second half of this year. Several […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/amd-sampling-mi450-gpus-engaged-with-customers-on-mi500-largest-ai-deployments-are-for-inference/

xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550,000 NVIDIA GPUs, While Meta and Google Squeeze Out 43-46% From Their Fleets

3 May 2026 at 16:25

xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550,000 NVIDIA GPUs, While Meta and Google Squeeze Out 43-46% From Their Fleets

xAI is reportedly able to utilize just over 10% of its entire NVIDIA GPU fleet, as report suggests lackluster AI software stack optimizations. AI Software Stack Bottlenecks Are An Industry-Wide Problem, As xAI Is Only Able To Utilize 11% of Its Entire NVIDIA GPU Installation. The Information has reported that Elon Musk's xAI, the software firm behind Gorq and other key AI-based components, is only able to utilize a small chunk of its total installed GPU capacity. Currently, xAI runs around 550,000 NVIDIA GPUs, which are a combination of H100s and H200s. These are deployed within xAI's Memphis and Colussus […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-meta-google-squeeze-out-much-more/

Musk v. Altman is just getting started

1 May 2026 at 18:00
Elon Musk spent the better part of three daysΒ on the witness standΒ this weekΒ in his lawsuit against OpenAI, andΒ it’sΒ already getting messy. Emails, texts, andΒ his own tweetsΒ are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the β€œnonprofit for the […]
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