When AI Becomes More Than a Tool: Our Emotional Dependence on Chatbots AI isn’t just a calculator anymore—it’s increasingly becoming a confidant, advisor, or even a “digital spouse,” according to OpenAI users. Explore why this emotional reliance matters now more than ever. 1.  Emotional Bonds Run Deep—Stronger Than Expected Many users were emotionally devastated after […]

Chiplet Architectures in AI Accelerators: Breaking the Monolith Abstract The rise of artificial intelligence has created an insatiable demand for compute, memory, and scale. But the monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) approach that powered decades of semiconductor growth is reaching its physical and economic limits. Reticle boundaries, yield challenges, and thermal constraints make it increasingly impractical to […]

AI Attachment & Emotional Dependence 1.  Altman Reflects on Emotional Attachments to AI Attachment stronger than past tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman openly acknowledged that some users form unusually strong attachments to specific AI models. He noted this emotional bond is unlike anything seen with earlier technologies—and admitted that abruptly deprecating familiar models (e.g., GPT-4o) […]

UALink and the Battle for Rack-Scale GPU Interconnect Abstract Scaling AI workloads to tens of thousands of accelerators requires more than raw FLOPS — it requires the ability to connect GPUs into a coherent compute fabric. Nvidia has long dominated this domain with NVLink and NVSwitch, which provide high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects tightly integrated into its […]