NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel compete in the 2026 AI GPU market, with NVIDIA's Blackwell RTX 50-series, AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700, and Intel's Arc Pro B70 targeting local LLM inference. VRAM capacity and mem…
France's antitrust regulator is finalizing an investigation into Nvidia over alleged anti-competitive practices tied to its GPU dominance and CUDA software ecosystem, with potential fines of up to 10%…
A Fortran developer proposes adding a RESIDENT locality specifier to DO CONCURRENT to prevent implicit offload copying in systems with separate memory address spaces, allowing selective host-only para…
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova released third-party benchmarks showing its heterogeneous compute platform, combining Nvidia H200 GPUs and SambaNova SN50 RDUs, achieves 763 tokens per second on…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of C4N, its first network- and block-storage-optimized Compute Engine instance, delivering up to 400 Gbps network bandwidth and 95 million packets per s…
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…
Paris startup ZML, backed by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, released free software called ZML/LLMD that runs open-source language models across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Intel, and Apple chips, aiming to break Nvi…
Nvidia's forward price-to-earnings ratio fell to 22.22x, its lowest since June 2019, despite record revenue of $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026, as investor focus shifts to other AI sectors like memory a…
Intel has archived its Quantum Intrinsics open-source project, a C++ front-end for the Intel Quantum Compiler, along with other AI-related projects like OAP-MLLIB, as part of ongoing restructuring. Th…
AMD released ZenDNN 6.0, an open-source deep neural network library for accelerating inference on Ryzen and EPYC CPUs. The update arrives before the official Zen 6 debut and includes improvements to t…
Semiconductor stocks plunged, erasing $1.3 trillion in market value, as Wall Street grew concerned about slowing AI spending growth, putting pressure on Intel, Micron, and AMD amid rising interest rat…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chip…
Vendelux, a live events information platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Tribeca Venture Partners to help B2B marketers determine which events to attend and track ROI. The startup u…
ZML released ZML/LLMD on July 8, 2026 as an alpha inference server for LLaMa, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral models across NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI and Apple Metal targets, aiming to r…
Perplexity has become one of the first major AI companies to adopt Nvidia's new Vera CPU, planning to run its agent workloads on the chip. The AI search firm reports Vera runs agentic coding tasks abo…
French AI startup ZML released a free inference server, ZML/LLMD, that enables open-source large language models to run at peak performance across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU…
SambaNova is closing in on a funding round of up to $1 billion at a valuation near $10 billion, roughly five times its valuation from four months ago. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the talks, highlig…
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an …
SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion in a funding round at an $11 billion valuation, signaling strong investor demand for alternatives to Nvidia in AI hardware. The Palo Alto-based startup, which build…
Oil prices surged over 2% after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, while Asian shares were mixed. Brent crude rose to $76.09 a barrel and U.S. benchmark crude to $72.25. Markets remain volatile amid A…