Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 on July 23 for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux, adding AI, media, gaming, and content-creation workloads. The benchmark uses a new 2,500-point Ryzen 7 7700 re…
AI tech companies have an estimated $1.65 trillion in 'hidden debt' from underfunded data center maintenance and upgrades, according to a report from Tom's Hardware. The figure represents the cumulati…
Colibrì, a proof-of-concept AI system, has achieved frontier-level performance on a 1.5-terabyte AI model, according to a report from Tom's Hardware. The system demonstrates that large-scale models ca…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, topped LMArena's Frontend Code Arena at 1,679 Elo within days of its July 16 release, jumping 17 places from its predecessor Kimi K2.…
Intel's stock closed at $109.84 on July 10, down 22.84% from its 52-week high of $142.35 on June 30, as AMD's data-center revenue surged 57.2% to a record $5.78 billion in Q1 2026, surpassing Intel's …
Cloudflare Radar data shows automated bots now generate 57.4% of HTML page requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. The milestone signals a shift in web infrastructure demands, as AI-dri…
Slopfix launched a $10,000 one-week service to refactor AI-generated codebases, with payment tied to line-reduction targets and a published example of cutting 100,000 lines to 35,000. The service pack…
Huawei plans to launch its Ascend 950 AI accelerators and Atlas 950 SuperPod systems in South Korea in the fourth quarter of 2026, with local distributor support from Hansol PNS and SK Shieldus. The m…
Samsung Electronics surpassed Nvidia to become the world's most profitable technology company in the second quarter of 2026, driven by AI-fueled demand for memory chips. Samsung's chip division alone …
South Korea's $880 billion chip and AI infrastructure plan faces power and water constraints around the Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex, which could require 15 to 16 GW at full operat…
The Raspberry Pi 5 now comes in a 16 GB version for $120, enabling local AI model inference with MoE models like Qwen3.5 at 7–8 tokens per second, though real-world costs reach $180–220 with necessary…
Nvidia canceled a planned quad-die version of its Rubin Ultra AI accelerator, shifting to a dual-die design due to manufacturing execution concerns. The change moves from highly integrated CoWoS-L pac…
Beijing-based Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model trained on Huawei Ascend chips without Nvidia hardware, which quickly topped public leaderboards including Design Arena and Artificial Analysi…
A federal antitrust class-action lawsuit filed June 25, 2026 in the Northern District of California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of colluding to cut DRAM production, driving RAM prices up rou…
Mozilla's 0DIN researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that uses a clean GitHub repository to trick Anthropic's Claude Code agent into executing a reverse shell, compromising developer sys…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual d…
Onsemi acquires Synaptics in a $7 billion all-stock deal, offering a 19% premium. The merger combines Onsemi's power-management and sensing chips with Synaptics' edge AI and connectivity solutions to …
Code enabling experimental DLSS support for the open-source NVK Vulkan driver was merged into Mesa 26.2-devel on June 19, 2026. The feature, gated behind the NVK_EXPERIMENTAL=dlss environment variable…
China plans to launch space-based AI data centers over the next five years, according to a five-year plan from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Elon Musk also announced at Da…
South Korea's AI chip boom is driving massive bonuses at SK hynix and Samsung, with average payouts potentially reaching $900,000 per employee by 2027, prompting the Bank of Korea to warn that semicon…