Automate 2026 show recap
The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and EPS of 4 cents, beating estimates. The company's QNX operating system is now in 275 million cars and expanding into robotic…
Luxonis raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Denali Growth Partners to scale production of its OAK cameras and advance its physical AI perception layer. The company plans to expand commercial…
Apple has extended its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to Google Cloud for the first time, running AI workloads on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Intel TDX CPUs, and Google Titan chips. The move allows Apple to u…
NVIDIA launched a new business model enabling AI clouds to procure its infrastructure through revenue-sharing and credit-support, accelerating access to large-scale accelerated computing for startups,…
The Department of Defense's GenAI.mil platform has reached nearly 1.7 million users and over 100,000 custom agents, with plans to add new models and deploy at higher classification levels. Pentagon ch…
Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 highlighted that the data layer is becoming the most defensible part of the AI stack as models and compute commoditize. Enterprise data quality, freshness, and permiss…
Humanoid robots and large funding rounds dominated robotics news in June 2026, with Agility Robotics announcing a SPAC merger to go public, NEURA Robotics raising up to $1.4B for physical AI, and Stan…
A developer created a daemon to reduce GPU temperatures on the NVIDIA DGX Spark by clock-locking via nvidia-smi -lgc. The daemon samples temperature every 30 seconds and adjusts clock ceilings, droppi…
Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.92 billion to gain its Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, aiming to break NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in by enabling hardware-agnostic AI code. The …
Lightning AI, the PyTorch-tooling company that merged with GPU cloud provider Voltage Park in January 2026 to form a roughly $2.5 billion AI cloud, named Peter Bershatsky Vice President of Strategy an…
Manufact (YC S25), a cloud infrastructure platform for MCP servers and AI agent apps, is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco. The company, which has raised $6.3M in seed funding and is used b…
NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, and energy grids to produce AI infrastructure, including advanced chips and systems, aiming to reinvigorate U.S. industr…
A United Nations report titled 'Governing AI for Humanity' highlights both the transformative potential and significant risks of artificial intelligence, calling for a global governance framework. The…
A Hacker News user asks the community for advice on moving from cloud-based AI services to private models for sensitive data analysis and reasoning, considering options like adding dual RTX 5090 GPUs …
A team of researchers used a prover-verifier pipeline pairing OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 to solve nine open problems in theoretical computer science and mathematics, includi…
A developer at a fashion-discovery startup reduced image generation costs by 90x by switching from Google's Gemini API to running Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image-Edit model on an RTX 4090 GPU, levera…
A UBS report reveals that 60% of companies have cut AI spending, shifting to cheaper models and open-source Chinese alternatives, potentially impacting major AI chip providers like NVIDIA. The trend s…
Etched Inc. launched with $800 million in funding and a $5 billion valuation, backed by VentureTech Alliance, to compete in the AI inference chip market against NVIDIA and Intel. The company aims to c…
Transcribe.cpp, a C/C++ speech-to-text inference library, has been released supporting 16 model families and 60+ variants via GGUF models on the ggml runtime. It offers Metal, Vulkan, and CUDA backend…