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…
Anthropic disclosed that the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns linked to SK Telecom's inclusio…
SpaceX unveiled the AI1 orbital data-center concept, a craft with an interchangeable compute payload averaging 120 kW and peaking at 150 kW, powered by a 150-kilowatt solar array and cooled by 110 squ…
Nvidia demonstrated an agentic robotics system called ENPIRE that taught fleets of robots to perform dexterous tasks, including handing a GPU to another arm and positioning it over a motherboard. The …
Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, the AI chip startup led by chip architect Jim Keller, in a deal that could value the company at $8 billion to $10 billion. The discussions, repo…
Silicon Motion is preparing a PCIe 6.0 consumer SSD controller for release next year, according to Senior VP Nelson Duann. The company and rival Phison posted record Q1 results driven by hyperscaler d…
Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72, announced at CES and detailed at GTC, promises up to 10x lower cost per token than Blackwell, but the headline figure depends on ideal conditions: mixture-of-experts models,…