AMD bought Toronto startup Taalas, whose chips bake model weights directly into silicon instead of streaming them out of HBM; early demos hit up to 17,000 tokens a second. Terms undisclosed, but AMD says it is a real acquisition, not an acquihire.
U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July and the two prior months were revised down, per Friday’s Labor Department report. The unemployment rate eased to 4.1%.
Anthropic confirmed it is hiring a custom silicon team to design chips for running its models, after job listings surfaced. It is staying multi-chip — its own designs alongside other vendors’ hardware as it scales.
French economists, including recent Nobelist Philippe Aghion, measured what a specialised AI aeration-control system did once deployed across French wastewater plants — the environmental and cost savings from narrow ML in physical infrastructure.