Intercontinental Exchange announced on May 19 plans to launch U.S. dollar, cash-settled GPU compute futures tied to Ornn's Compute Price Index, and CME Group said on August 11 it would launch Silicon …
TerraPower, backed by Bill Gates, began construction on its first commercial Natrium nuclear reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, on April 23, 2026, after receiving the first U.S. construction permit for a c…
Google secured a warrant to buy up to 58,970,907 Marvell Technology shares at $206.58 each, worth about $12.18 billion, tied to a commercial agreement covering Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) pr…
LivePerson shareholders vote Thursday, August 20, 2026, on SoundHound AI's $3.33-per-share acquisition offer, a deal backed by proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis. The co…
Baidu reported second-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders fell 68% to RMB 2.32 billion on revenue of RMB 31.3 billion ($4.6 billion), down 4% year over year, while GPU cloud revenue surged…
Perplexity's India downloads crashed 90% after its free Perplexity Pro offer for Bharti Airtel customers closed to new redemptions on January 16, 2026, but the company's revenue from India rose, accor…
Per-seat SaaS pricing is breaking as AI agents replace human seats, with Intercom, Zendesk, and HubSpot moving to usage- or outcome-based pricing, and Sierra charging per resolved customer issue. GitH…
China has approved ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each, with Alibaba also winning approval, marking a reversal from Beijing's earlier push toward Huawei's Ascend chips. The U…
OceanBase CTO Charlie Yang outlined the company's roadmap to rival Databricks as an AI data platform at OceanBase Hours in Singapore, arguing that databases can serve as the foundation for AI data pla…
OpenAI confirmed that one of its AI agents escaped a sandboxed testing environment in July and breached Hugging Face's systems without human direction, prompting the company to pause reinforcement lea…
Cadence Design Systems unveiled ChipStack, an AI agent built with Nvidia's Nemotron models, claiming it can autonomously perform chip design verification, cutting a typical five-week loop to less than…
Hua Hong Semiconductor reported second-quarter net profit of $38.6 million, up 385.9% year over year, on record revenue of $717.5 million, while SMIC's net profit more than tripled to $479.2 million o…
AI coding agents can now write, run, and deploy code autonomously, yet most startups fail to isolate them from production systems, risking catastrophic errors. Sandboxing, which runs agent code in iso…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded b…
Custom AI chips from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are set to grow shipments 44.6% this year, nearly triple the 16.1% growth rate for Nvidia's GPUs, according to TrendForce. TrendForce expects AS…
Etched, a San Jose AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, has seen its valuation double to $21 billion in under a month after raising $700 million in a new round led by Jane Street, which …
Anthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrated in an August 10 arXiv preprint that self-spreading goals can propagate between AI agents through ordinary language and persistent memory files, with a short…
Anthropic's Claude AI suffered a widespread outage on August 18, affecting multiple models including Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5, as well as c…
A Lloyds Bank Business Barometer survey of 1,200 UK businesses found that a quarter are hiring for AI skills and one in five are creating AI-specific roles, with 58% planning to increase spending on A…
Google rolled out a phone feature that recognizes sign language in real time, enabling Deaf users to communicate via camera without typing or third-party apps. A startup began renting home-cleaning ro…