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AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership - AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Lux is slated to come online fairly soon in early 2026, with Discovery following in 2029.

Go to Cartesia, click "Start for Free", explore the dashboard, and test voices in "Text to Speech" using Sonic 3.0 for best latency and clarity

Scroll to "Voice Agents", click "Text to Agent", describe your agent (e.g., "Pizza order assistant that greets customers, takes orders, confirms details, calculates totals")

Select voice preference, click "Generate", then test using the dialer at +1 (515) 800-8360 - verify response speed, order handling, and voice clarity

Click "Promote to Production" to get a working number, publish it on the site, and monitor performance in "Metrics" (calls handled, duration, credit usage)

Refine prompts as needed based on customer interactions - costs are roughly one credit per character for text-to-speech, $0.06/minute for voice calls

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