Topic
Hardware
2 articles
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AgentsAnthropic's Lab Hardware Standard Brings Back the Manifest
Anthropic opened the research preview of the Model Hardware Standard on 27 August, letting agents drive microscopes, liquid handlers and the lasers inside a quantum computer. The MHS driver auto-generates a per-device file listing capabilities and safety limits, enforced at the device rather than requested of the model. That is a static, inspectable manifest, the exact artifact that has been dissolving on the software side of the agent stack all year.
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HardwareThe Memory War: AI Is Eating Every Chip on Earth
Data centers will consume 70% of the world's memory chips in 2026. DRAM prices surged 80-90% in a quarter. The AI boom has a hidden tax, and consumers are paying it.