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Taalas was building hardware for fixed AI models, and AMD has acquired it before the company’s first product reached customers.
The thread treated the deal less as a talent acqui-hire than a bet that bandwidth—not compute—is the limiting factor for some inference workloads.
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The one thing actually new in the box is a set of AMD developer 'playbooks,' positioned as an answer to Nvidia's DGX Spark documentation.
Owners are blunter than the review: at the same price as a Spark, just buy the Spark, which is faster with better software.
Disclosure ran 124 days, when the fix was essentially adding an 's' to a couple of URLs. The eventual "signature verification"? A CRC32 checksum — which any attacker can trivially recompute.
Known security voices reframed it: AMD never denied it was a vulnerability, only that it was in scope — and at big vendors, bounty teams are measured on payouts. The dark comedy: the updater may be too broken to exploit.
