DOE announced the Discovery and Lux supercomputers at ORNL to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Discovery and Lux will enable AI-driven research that fuels new advances in energy, manufacturing, medicine and cybersecurity.

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins.

CEO Huang says DGX Spark is "placing an AI computer in the hands of every developer to ignite the next wave of breakthroughs.”

AMD will power the next-generation Discovery supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs, partnering with the US Department of Energy, ready in early 2026.

The US Department of Energy partnered with AMD on a $1 billion initiative to build two advanced supercomputers.

There are many big names in a group of unlikely allies seeking a ban, for now, on AI "superintelligence" they say could threaten humanity.

Investors are pushing huge sums into building data centers to fulfil the promise of AI. But is this based on rosy assumptions?