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AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/amd-c… techmeme.com/250331/p22#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Nuclear energy is hot again. Can AI help manage the power plants? on.wsj.com/426MT6v

A look at Energy Department's Argonne National Lab's PRO-AID, an AI-based tool that can assist with nuclear reactor design and help operators run nuclear plants (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/nucle… techmeme.com/250412/p16#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

New Mexico, home to some of the top defense laboratories, is placing a bet on a different area of national defense: quantum computing on.wsj.com/4lFNBzi

A look at New Mexico's efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/new-m… techmeme.com/250423/p8#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Nvidia’s agent-building platform relies on open-source models like those from Meta Platforms and Mistral on.wsj.com/44BHXbe

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doubled down on the need for companies to have their own data centers for AI, emphasizing their importance for American job creation on.wsj.com/4jW0OCn

IBM CEO says AI has replaced some HR workers, leading to increased hiring in programming and sales on.wsj.com/3Yyqgpl

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company used AI agents to replace the work of 200+ HR employees and, as a result, hired more programmers and salespeople (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/ibm-c… techmeme.com/250507/p11#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Exclusive: Databricks is acquiring database startup Neon in a deal valued at about $1 billion on.wsj.com/4mbNf3T

OpenAI is making a big push into one of the most popular AI domains: software engineering on.wsj.com/3SCvoW2

Nvidia has created DGX Cloud Lepton, a new service to make its AI chips directly available to developers across a variety of cloud platforms on.wsj.com/4knGgTt

A new generation of more humanlike customer-service voice bots is here, spurred by advances in AI and a flood of investment on.wsj.com/44Od5Vo

CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/ai-vo… techmeme.com/250526/p10#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Exclusive: The next time you book a plumber, AI might be taking your call or returning your message. Or, it might reach out because it knows your air conditioner needs an upgrade well before the summer. on.wsj.com/4kFMyi9

Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/snowf… techmeme.com/250602/p19#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Shield Technology Partners, which provides an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, launches with over $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners (Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/thriv… techmeme.com/250605/p43#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

IBM says it has a “road map” of how it will build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029, offering greater detail on how it will wrangle the problems inherent in the powerhouse computers. on.wsj.com/3Thrsu8

Nvidia and Perplexity are partnering to make AI local and “sovereign” in Europe on.wsj.com/440z7lz

Listen 🎧: Artificial intelligence is coming to the physical world. Belle Lin discusses who stands to make big money on physical AI. Alex Ossola hosts on.wsj.com/3o375VH