OpenAI's data-center chief Chris Malone left the company last week amid an infrastructure reorganization, according to a report. The departure comes as the AI firm restructures its data-center operati…
SpaceX plans to launch Nvidia-based Starmind AI satellites in the fourth quarter of 2027, according to a company announcement. The satellites will use Nvidia's AI computing platform to enable on-orbit…
Taiwan's government raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 11.05%, the fastest annual pace since 1987, driven by artificial-intelligence infrastructure boosting semiconductor exports and factory inves…
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have issued about $220 billion of bonds in 2026 through Aug. 10, according to BNP Paribas data cited by Reuters, as they finance an artificial-intelligence…
New York has surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area as the largest U.S. tech talent market by headcount, with 394,300 tech talent jobs compared to 375,730 in the Bay Area, according to CBRE's 2026 Scori…
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said artificial intelligence has changed the memory industry's traditional boom-and-bust cycle by creating sustained demand for high-bandwidth memory and other data-center p…
Opposition to new local AI data centers reached 71% in a March Gallup survey and 61% in a June-July Annenberg survey, with majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents opposed, reshaping 2026…
SpaceX asked the Federal Communications Commission on January 30, 2026, for authority to operate up to one million AI satellites between 500 and 2,000 kilometers above Earth, a plan that would create …
OpenAI has added preview support for native transparent backgrounds to its GPT-Image-2 API, enabling developers to generate reusable assets without a separate background-removal step. The feature is e…
Anthropic plans to let enterprise customers store required safety-monitoring data in their own cloud environments, easing a June 9, 2026 policy that removed zero-data-retention access for its Claude F…
Adobe made Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects broadly available in Firefly on August 20, 2026, adding Google's Gemini Omni Flash to its model lineup. The tools use Adobe's Fir…
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) raised wafer prices after reporting second-quarter revenue of $3.006 billion, up 20% sequentially and 36.1% year over year, driven by AI-related …
SK hynix and its labor union reached a tentative 2026 wage agreement that raises base pay 6.3% and pays 60% of profit-sharing bonuses in company stock, with 40% in cash. The bonus pool is tied to 10% …
VDURA's August Flash Volatility Index puts a 30TB TLC enterprise SSD at $22,600, up from $3,460 in Q3 2025, while a comparable HDD costs $1,216, making the SSD 18.6 times more expensive. Western Digit…
Muon Space raised $250 million in a Series C round led by Eclipse Capital at a $1.5 billion valuation to scale satellite production, bringing total equity funding to over $386 million. The company has…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ, bringing total funding above $200 million. The company, which emerged from s…
Google is rolling out a dedicated student hub inside Gemini ahead of the 2026 back-to-school season, offering study notebooks, flashcards, practice quizzes, and planning tools that can add syllabus de…
Google LLC bid $10 million to buy Spirit Airlines' deidentified enterprise data, including 175,658 employee records, 100 million emails, and 500 million Microsoft Teams items, but the Association of F…
ByteDance and Tencent have each received roughly 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI accelerators in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the shipments cited by the Financial Times and reported by Tom's …
OpenAI announced on August 18, 2026, that ChatGPT Ads will expand to 31 European markets the following week, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austr…