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Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout’s big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limitations of copper

AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Meta have formed an Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop a standardized optical interconnect for AI data centers, with the aspiration to build a PHY capable of handling speeds of up to 3.2 Tb/s.

Amazon Alexa+ Goes Potty Mouth With New Adults-Only Mode

Amazon Alexa+ Goes Potty Mouth With New Adults-Only Mode
Amazon is letting Alexa off the leash with a new, sassy adults-only mode, whereby the AI assistant will dole out witty sarcasm and mild profanity. Part of us are thinking this might be an early April Fool’s joke, but the other part also hopes this catches on with Apple and Google, too.

Those of you with Alexa+ subscriptions will now see