Microsoft's new data center lease commitments exceed $130 billion

Microsoft disclosed that its new data center lease commitments not yet started exceeded $130 billion in the fourth fiscal quarter. Total lease commitments not yet performed reached $329.1 billion as of June 30, up from $196.6 billion in the previous quarter.

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From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

Researchers from UC Berkeley Sky Lab extended the K-Search evolutionary kernel optimization framework with an MLX backend for Apple Silicon. They developed a structured CUDA-to-MLX translation layer that transfers decades of CUDA optimization expertise to Apple GPUs, achieving near-expert performance on attention and Mamba SSM kernels.

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