Microsoft has formally accepted Horizon 1, the first phase of IREN Limited's AI cloud deployment under a five-year contract worth approximately $9.7 billion, with IREN on track to deliver 50 MW of IT …
NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to build a compute financing platform targeting ov…
A Hacker News user argues that US sanctions on China, which prohibit NVIDIA chips from being sold there, are counterproductive, as they compel China to develop independent, affordable alternatives and…
A practical guide for teaching kids AI by letting them tweak local chatbots, using tools like Ollama and Open WebUI, turns passive AI use into active learning. The approach, which involves adjusting s…
GIGABYTE launched the AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI Box, a 16GB GDDR7 external GPU for AI inference priced at $699, featuring Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. The device targets AI…
At today's agent-focused talks, the consensus was that agent improvement now hinges on the trace—the record of an agent's actions—rather than larger models, with Grok 4.6 matching Claude Fable 5 on AA…
Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion compute agreement with Riot Platforms on August 11, converting the former Bitcoin miner's 700 MW Rockdale, Texas campus into AI infrastructure. This is Anthrop…
Lila Sciences, an AI-for-science company launched by Flagship Pioneering, has raised roughly $550 million, including a $200 million seed round from Flagship Pioneering with General Catalyst, March Cap…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Lovable, a vibe-coding platform that lets users build full-stack web apps from plain English descriptions, has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventur…
Coherent Corp. reported fiscal Q4 2026 revenue of approximately $2 billion, beating analyst consensus of $1.99 billion and exceeding its own guidance of $1.91 billion to $2.05 billion. The company gui…
Kubernetes 1.37, releasing August 26, brings pod-level resources to stable, DRA device taints to GA, and advances GPU partitioning, addressing the 5% average GPU utilization measured by Cast AI across…
Goldman Sachs and five other financial firms are part of a consortium mobilizing over $500 billion to support NVIDIA's AI infrastructure initiatives, according to a report. The financing targets NVIDI…
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), a 2.4T-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95B activated parameters per token, designed for long-context reasoning and agenti…
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter dense open-agentic model under Apache 2.0, designed for local agents with multi-step reasoning, tool calls, image understandin…
CoreWeave reported Q2 revenue of $2.08 billion, a 112% year-over-year increase, while Nebius Group saw a 684% revenue surge and turned adjusted EBITDA positive, despite both companies posting net loss…
An engineer explains that the pricing difference between input and output tokens in LLM inference stems from the distinct hardware bottlenecks of prefill and decode phases. Prefill is compute-bound, w…
NEAR AI Cloud now issues Intel-signed attestation tokens for confidential inference requests, adding an independent verification layer backed by Intel Trust Authority. The upgrade lets users verify AI…
NVIDIA published a guide for selecting full-stack observability tools for AI factories, outlining a decision framework that maps components such as GPUs, InfiniBand fabrics, and cluster schedulers to …
Engineers at an unnamed company cut inference cold start times from minutes to seconds by profiling their startup sequence and finding that 90% of the delay came from moving large files. They reduced …