Navigating Supply Disruptions Generated by Rising AI Waters

The GenAI boom has made hardware hot, both literally and figuratively. Unfortunately, the huge demand for infrastructure has completely disrupted the supply chain for chips, memory, and disk, making it nearly impossible to get the sort of hardware you need to run enterprise IT workloads–let alone HPC or AI jobs–without breaking the bank. So how…

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Microsoft releases open-source tools to operationalize AI agent safety

Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools aimed at bringing AI safety checks much earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools, called Rampart and Clarity, were announced this week as part of Microsoft’s broader push to operationalize safety engineering for agentic AI. “We built these tools because we believe that AI safety has to become…

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