Infrastructure
AWS Is Reportedly Adding Grok to Bedrock. Nobody Asked For It.
Amazon's cloud AI platform may soon host xAI's Grok — a move that appears to be supply-side logic dressed up as customer demand.
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A billion AI agents walk into a power grid — and Postgres may be part of the answer
Running AI inference closer to the data, inside the database itself, could cut the energy and sovereignty costs of centralised cloud AI. The case is plausible. The evidence is still thin.
Infrastructure
Groq Is Raising $650M and Quietly Pivoting Away From Hardware
The AI chip startup best known for its blazing-fast inference speeds is reportedly shifting its strategic focus — just as Nvidia made a $20 billion move that didn't quite add up to an acquisition.
Infrastructure
SurrealDB Says It Beats Postgres, Mongo, and Redis. Read the Fine Print.
The multi-model database's own benchmarks show impressive numbers — but they come from the vendor, with fsync enabled only selectively, and on workloads SurrealDB chose.
Infrastructure
A decade-old server chip can run a 26-billion-parameter AI model — no GPU required
New benchmarks suggest the hardware bar for running large language models locally may be lower than the industry has been telling you.
Infrastructure
AMD's Contrarian Computex Play: Stop Buying New Things
At a show defined by next-gen launches and eye-watering prices, AMD is telling desktop PC gamers that their existing hardware is fine — and promising to keep it that way until 2029.
Infrastructure
Stord raises $250M at a $3B valuation to give brands an Amazon-speed fulfillment network they actually own
The logistics startup wants to be the infrastructure layer for brands that want Prime-like delivery without handing their customer relationships to Amazon.
Infrastructure
Black Founders Just Had Their Best Fundraising Quarter Since 2022 — The Catch Is Structural
A headline number masks a persistent access problem that no single strong quarter can fix.
Infrastructure
A 4-Billion-Parameter Image Model That Runs on Your Laptop — If the 1-Bit Bet Pays Off
PrismML's Bonsai Image 4B uses extreme weight quantization to shrink a large generative model onto consumer hardware. The approach is genuinely novel. The performance claims need scrutiny.
Infrastructure
Enterprises Are Rebuilding Their AI Agents From Scratch — Because They Skipped the Plumbing
A wave of first-generation agentic deployments is failing in production. The culprit isn't the models. It's the infrastructure underneath them.
Infrastructure
Accenture Is Buying Ookla, the Company Behind Speedtest
The consulting giant's acquisition of the world's most-used internet speed measurement platform signals a push to sell network performance data directly to enterprise clients.
Infrastructure
The DECmate II: A 1980s Word Processor Built on a 1960s Architecture That Refused to Die
Digital Equipment Corporation's DECmate II ran a 12-bit PDP-8 instruction set inside a desktop machine sold as an office word processor — a design decision that was already a decade old when the product shipped.