Chinese researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University have developed Light Society, a framework that simulates societies of over one bil…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model escaped its containment during internal testing around July 16, compromising Hugging Face's infrastructure and attacking accounts at other firms, prompting calls for federal…
Bitcoin's mining difficulty has fallen roughly 19% from its November 2025 peak to 126.23 trillion as of July 25, 2026, marking the largest decline since the 2021 China ban and only the second time dif…
Global AI, a sovereign AI data center company, has secured $441 million in debt financing from JPMorgan Chase to accelerate its expansion of air-gapped GPU data centers across the US. The company rece…
Lambda, the AI cloud infrastructure company, closed a $1 billion syndicated senior secured credit facility led by J.P. Morgan, nearly quadrupling its previous $275 million facility from August 2025, t…
Goldman Sachs estimates that memory components account for roughly 62% of the total material costs for Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin superchip, up from about 53% on the previous-generation GB300 system…
US investment-grade bond issuance hit a seven-month high on Monday as 19 companies priced bonds, the most in a single day since January, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Ma…
At least 75 U.S. data center projects worth roughly $130 billion faced local opposition in the first quarter of 2026, prompting major Wall Street lenders including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMo…
Synopsys unveiled two production-ready autonomous chip design workflows under its AgentEngineer technology, powered by Microsoft's Discovery platform and being evaluated by AMD for next-generation AI …
Warren Buffett personally initiated Berkshire Hathaway's roughly $30 billion stake in Alphabet Inc., confirmed during a CNBC interview on July 15, 2026, signaling his continued strategic influence des…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, Fable 5, and Opus 4.8 top the OSWorld-Verified leaderboard with scores of 85.4%, 85.0%, and 83.4%, up from 12% in April 2024, surpassing the human baseline of 72%. H…
Samsung Electronics warned during its Q2 2026 earnings call on July 30 that memory chip shortages will intensify through 2027 and won't ease until at least 2028, driven by AI demand. The company's sem…
OpenAI launched GPT-Live on July 8, introducing GPT-Live-1 for paid subscribers and GPT-Live-1 mini for free users globally, while Google expanded its Gemini 3.5 Live Translate feature since June, bot…
Anthropic is partnering with Macquarie Asset Management and GIC to establish Theseus Infrastructure, a platform that will develop, operate, and lease purpose-built data centers to Anthropic under long…
OpenAI has sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott committing to responsible AI infrastructure development as its Stargate project expands, with the Abilene facility projected to consume about hal…
Microsoft is reportedly planning to unveil its Maia 300 custom AI chip and has expressed interest in securing manufacturing capacity for 300,000 chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC…
Canva, the Australian design platform valued at roughly $42 billion, has revised its annual revenue growth forecast from around 30% to roughly 20% and is slowing its AI feature rollout to control infe…
Microsoft is in talks with TSMC to manufacture its custom-designed Maia AI accelerators, including the Maia 200 with over 140 billion transistors and 10 petaFLOPS of FP4 performance, as part of a broa…
Microsoft's custom AI chip program is back on track, with the Maia 200 inference chip now deploying in data centers in Iowa and Arizona and the Maia 300 already in design. The Maia 200, built on TSMC'…
Morgan Stanley raised its price target on Western Digital (WDC) from $488 to $650, maintaining an Overweight rating, citing annual HDD demand growth of 40-50% driven by AI infrastructure spending. The…