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1000x Resist dev says we need a universal video codec for games
9+ hour, 28+ min ago (731+ words) 'We're having to use some nasty codecs sometimes to make sure all platforms are supported.' Related: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints These CAPTCHAs are made interactive by what Liu calls "Semiotic Panic." He described it…...
Google Torch TPU enables native Py Torch AI execution
16+ hour, 18+ min ago (745+ words) Google has launched Torch TPU, an engineering stack enabling Py Torch workloads to run natively on TPU infrastructure for enterprise AI. The machine learning talent pool almost universally writes code in Python using the Py Torch framework. However, extracting maximum…...
Turbo Quant: How a Simple Spin Saves Gigabytes of GPU Memory
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (594+ words) Before we talk about AI, let me tell you about a busy restaurant Imagine you manage a popular restaurant. Every order gets written down in full Each order takes ~150 characters. On a busy Friday night with 500 orders, that's 75k characters, which…...
Samba Nova and Intel Announce Blueprint for Heterogeneous Inference: GPUs For Prefill, Samba Nova RDUs for Decode, and Intel" Xeon" 6 CPUs for Agentic Tools
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (203+ words) We are seeing AI Agents code output grow exponentially and as a result, Daytona is seeing the need for more and more sandboxes to run and compile this code, which runs on CPUs like Intel's Xeon" said Ivan Burazin, CEO…...
Google open-sources Torch TPU, a native Py Torch backend
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (185+ words) Switching off NVIDIA AI infra could be a lot easier with Google's new Py Torch backend. Google has officially confirmed and detailed its "Torch TPU" project, first reported back in December, that gives its TPU chips a native, open-source Py…...
Py Torch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (510+ words) To understand why Helion matters, it helps to know how GPU programming actually works - because it is considerably more involved than most people realize. Above the kernel layer sits Triton, a compiler developed by Open AI that makes it possible…...
Py Torch Foundation Announces Safetensors as Newest Contributed Project to Secure AI Model Execution
2+ day, 28+ min ago (174+ words) Apr 08, 2026, 03: 00 ET Safetensors is welcomed into the Py Torch Foundation to secure model distribution and build trusted agentic solutions As AI model development accelerates, security risks in the production pipeline inherently increase, necessitating secure, high-performance formats that can keep pace…...
High-Throughput GPU Inference Batching System Design
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (908+ words) Before designing anything, you need to nail down assumptions. Here are the key questions " and the assumptions we'll carry forward: Clarifying questions are not just a formality. Each assumption here directly shapes an architectural decision downstream. The batch size cap…...
Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (380+ words) Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source Open GL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
NVIDIA Unveils Mission Control Software for Blackwell AI Supercomputers
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (215+ words) Iris Coleman Apr 07, 2026 19: 19 NVIDIA's Mission Control bridges rack-scale GPU hardware with AI workload schedulers, enabling topology-aware job placement on GB200 and GB300 NVL72 systems. NVIDIA has detailed how its Mission Control software stack transforms the company's rack-scale Blackwell supercomputers from raw hardware into…...