DataVolt and Supermicro Announce $20 Billion Tech Partnership
DataVolt, a Saudi Arabian data center company, has signed a multi-year partnership agreement with Super Micro Computer Inc. (Supermicro), which specializes in energy-efficient, application-optimized server solutions. President Trump and His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud announced the deal at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The
Read moreTrinomial Coefficients and Kings
The term trinomial coefficient is used a couple different ways. The most natural use of the term is a generalization of bionomial coefficients to three variables, i.e. numbers of the form where i + j + k = n. These numbers are the coefficients of yj zk in the expansion of (x + y
Read moreGrok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’
After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the behavior on an “unauthorized modification” to Grok’s code. Wednesday’s hours-long outburst saw Grok insert discussion of
Read moreSalesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS
Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce. Christophe explains how they solicited and incorporated feedback from the developer community in building the developer edition, what types of AI
Read moreRiff on an integration bee integral
I saw an integral posted online that came from this year’s MIT Integration Bee. My thoughts on seeing this were, in order: It looks like a beta function. The answer is a small number. You can evaluate the integral using the substitution u = 1 − x2025. I imagine most
Read moreThe Basics of Node.js Streams
Explore the fundamentals of Node.js streams for efficient I/O operations. Learn how readable, writable, and transform streams work with practical examples of data handling, piping, and backpressure management in this comprehensive guide. Continue reading The Basics of Node.js Streams on SitePoint.
Read morexAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South
Read moreSam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month. When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember
Read moreVibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for
Read moreViral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact
Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to apps that it found were not using its own “private
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