HPC News Bytes 20250728: US AI Action Plan; STMicro Sensors Acquisition; NVIDIA H20, TSMC and Shifting GPU Export Policy

Good July day to all! The HPC-AI sector rolled forward over the past week generating its usual harvest of news, here’s a fast (6:33) review of recent developments ….

HPC News Bytes 20241028: US Chip Fab Beats Taiwan, Tech and Danish Royalty Unveil AI Supercomputer, White Houe Initiative on AI National Security Risk

Good Halloween Week to you! From the always-active world of HPC-AI here’s a quick ….

DOE and NNSA in Effort to Harness AI National Security Mission 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, the White House issued a national security memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence. “Recognizing that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and foreign policy, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are leading work to help understand and mitigate the risks […]

The White House Meets with 7 Big Tech Companies – Releases Commitments on Managing AI

The White House has just announced that that it accepting pledges from a number of high-profile tech companies for the safe development of AI. The Fact Sheet for today’s meeting can be found here. Seven companies — Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection — convened at the White House today to announce the voluntary agreements.

Transcript: Randy Bryant from the White House OSTP Discusses the NSCI Initiative

In this video from the 2015 HPC User Forum, Randy Bryant, from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) discusses National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Established by an Executive Order by President Obama, NSCI has a mission to ensure the United States continues leading high performance computing over the coming decades. As part of the effort, NSCI will foster the deployment of exascale supercomputers to take on the nation’s Grand Challenges.