SoftBank Group is reportedly preparing to raise up to $60bn in fresh debt to fund its swelling bet on OpenAI, a target that would eclipse any previous bond sale by the Japanese conglomerate. The plan …
Arm architecture powers the world's most advanced and energy-efficient supercomputers, with the TOP500's new #1 system LineShine becoming the first to exceed two exaflops of sustained double-precision…
AGIBOT, a robotics company founded three years ago, has moved from demonstrations to deploying humanoid and quadruped robots in industrial environments, with Arm providing the common compute foundatio…
AMD and Intel have co-authored the ACE (AI Compute Extensions) specification, a jointly owned matrix ISA for x86 that freezes a new instruction set aimed at inference-friendly formats and outer-produc…
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son mocked AI critics at the Softbank World event, saying those who dislike AI have refused their own evolution and those who condemn AI are spitting against the wind, according…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI users pay a 'double cost' of money and 'unique knowledge,' validating Japan's industrial policy of pursuing domestic AI to control data sovereignty and intel…
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group has released a whitepaper and specification for ACE (AI Compute Extensions), a new accelerator type for Intel's AMX instruction set that introduces outer product instr…
PyTorch 2.13 has been released with performance improvements including FlexAttention on Apple Silicon with up to 12x speedups, a CuTeDSL backend for Inductor, and fused nn.LinearCrossEntropyLoss reduc…
WILDLABS and Arm announced the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2026 on July 7, 2026, distributing $360,000 across 16 conservation technology projects. The awards support innovations such as AI-powered …
Google Cloud and Valtech released the open-source core of Nexus SDV, a connected-vehicle platform integrating Gemini models, Android Automotive OS, Arm-based compute, and Bigtable. The platform suppor…
Google Cloud and Valtech launched Nexus SDV, an open-source, AI-enabled connected vehicle platform built on Google Cloud to secure and scale software-defined vehicles. The platform integrates Gemini A…
Vulkan 1.4.356 introduces the VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types extension, adding support for Open Compute Project Microscaling MX data types (MXFP4, MXFP6, MXFP8, MXINT8) to improve machine learni…
Arm-based innovations in June 2026 include Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 VMs for cloud-native AI, a generative AI solution for low-light image enhancement, Unreal Engine MegaLights and Nanite optimizatio…
China's CPU-only LineShine supercomputer, built on the Arm architecture, claimed the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list, achieving 2.198 Exaflops of sustained FP64 performance with over 13 million cores…
US technology stocks fell sharply, with the Nasdaq dropping 2.2% and the S&P 500 declining 1.4%, as investors questioned whether massive spending on artificial intelligence will ever yield returns. Th…
AI infrastructure is entering a new phase focused on rack-scale system composition for agentic AI workflows, where CPUs play critical orchestration roles alongside accelerators. The shift from single-…
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech companies launched the Appia Foundation to create modular specifications that help enterprises demonstrate their AI systems comply with global standards and r…
AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Arm, and Qualcomm are selling datacenter CPUs into the AI buildout, but the instruction set architecture (ISA) matters less than the coherent link to the GPU. The coherent host soc…
Spotify reported 250% better performance on Google Cloud Axion processors built on Arm architecture, as hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft, and Google shift to Arm-based compute for AI workloads. Arm's …
London Tech Week has been accused of masking structural problems in Britain's tech sector, with venture capitalist Adam French calling it 'complacency in conference form'. French criticized politician…