NVIDIA is a semiconductor company best known for its GPUs, which are the primary compute hardware for training and running AI models. Its H100 and A100 chips power the majority of AI data centers worldwide.
Amazon is developing a secret project codenamed Moonraker to give Alexa agentic capabilities, allowing it to handle complex multistep tasks like booking rides and messaging friends. Internal documents…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has prioritized artificial intelligence and semiconductor development as part of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to build domestic alternatives to US chips. The plan, …
CEOs announcing AI-first initiatives risk public backlash and internal toxicity if they fail to communicate sensitively, as seen in Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters' gaffe. With 64% of businesses s…
Nvidia announced its RTX Spark ARM-based chip at Computex, positioning it as a new category for thin laptops and mini PCs rather than a replacement for x86 gaming desktops. The chip, made with MediaTe…
Big Tech stocks, led by the Magnificent Seven, have rebounded 8% since late June, while semiconductor stocks have fallen 12%, indicating a rotation out of crowded hardware trades rather than a broad g…
Archer Aviation plans to launch its Midnight air taxi in Abu Dhabi as its first international market, citing strong financial support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, a favorable regulatory envir…
A developer advocates for running large language models locally using Ollama to ensure data security, especially when processing sensitive business data like production plans or financial details. Oll…
Amazon is developing a new Alexa AI project codenamed Moonraker to handle complex, multistep tasks, but internal documents reveal it is one of the most expensive initiatives, with projected GPU costs …
Nvidia inaugurated an expanded R&D center in Beersheba, Israel, on July 7, 2026, tripling its footprint to 3,000 square meters and housing over 150 employees. The center focuses on AI infrastructure, …
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…
Amazon returned to the bond market with a $25bn+ debt sale, its largest of the year, to fund AI infrastructure including data centers and custom Trainium chips. The offering, split across eight tranch…
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compi…
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…
Chinese AI startup Deepseek is developing its own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, boosting Hong Kong stocks. The Hang Seng Index rose nearly 3% and the Hang Seng Tech Index surged up…
SambaNova reached an $11 billion valuation after a funding round led by General Atlantic, highlighting investor appetite for AI chip startups challenging Nvidia's dominance.…
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…
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly pursue the manufacturing AI market, aiming to offer sovereign AI solutions to manufacturers in Europe and Asia. The partnership…
SK Hynix shares plunged 5.7% on Wednesday as a broad AI chip selloff overshadowed the company's upcoming Nasdaq debut, with South Korea's Kospi index falling 5.4% amid losses in Samsung Electronics 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…
Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the GLM series of open-source models, is exploring the development of a custom AI chip to address surging demand and US export controls. The company has initiated e…