Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Digital Twins Collaboration with Siemens and Nvidia

DEVENS, Mass. (January 6, 2026) — Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) today announced collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine that will apply artificial intelligence, data and project management tools to accelerate commercial fusion. The digital twin will leverage troves of data from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of […]

HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia’s Photonics Quantum Chip

A happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here’s a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including ….

Jan. 11 Pre-registration Deadline for IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference Student Innovation Challenge

ORLANDO, FL (Jan. 5, 2026) – The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), has extended the deadline for the Student Innovation Challenge for ECTC 2026. Six winning student teams will have the opportunity to attend ECTC 2026 with financial assistance, including travel costs up to a specified amount. Eligible participants currently enrolled in an […]

HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia’s $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure

A happy holiday break to all! Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal ….

Argonne Names 5 Distinguished Fellows for 2025

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin Heitmann, Ken Kemner, Robert Ross and Temitope Taiwo.

HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI ‘Doomers’ Speak Out

Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin ….

AlphaTON Capital in Agreement with atNorth for Data Center in Sweden

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) announced it has entered into an enterprise colocation service agreement with atNorth AB, a European data center operator. This agreement represents AlphaTON’s first major data center colocation contract. Under the terms of the 60-month agreement commencing February 1, 2026, AlphaTON will secure: 2,230 kW […]

FriendliAI Partners with NVIDIA on Nemotron 3 for Agentic AI Inference

Redwood City, CA – FriendliAI, an AI inference platform company, announced a partnership with NVIDIA to launch the Nemotron 3 model family, available on FriendliAI’s Dedicated Endpoints. Developers can deploy Nemotron 3 models on FriendliAI’s inference platform. Highlights include: Up to 13× faster token generation via hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and multi-token prediction (MTP) technique MoE routing […]

Genesis Mission: DOE Announces Agreements with 24 Organizations

The U.S. Department of Energy announced agreements with 24 organizations interested in collaborating to advance the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use the power of artificial intelligence to support discovery science, national security and energy innovation. The organizations that have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) as of today have either expressed interest to DOE […]

3 National Security Labs, 1 Federated Learning AI Model

Sandia National Laboratories released information today spotlighting what the labs call a significant milestone in advancing artificial intelligence for national security. Over the past year, Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories ….