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Microsoft launched its Build 2026 conference with a keynote focused on AI, unveiling new Surface hardware, an always-on assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models. The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, equipped wi…
The European Union’s €20 billion plan to build five AI gigafactories is faltering due to repeated delays and funding gaps, with the bidding process pushed to July and only two of the five centres eligible for subsidies b…
Dow Jones industrial average component Caterpillar and Nvidia chipmaker TSMC are trading in or near buy zones, signaling potential entry points for investors. The two industrial and semiconductor giants are showing techn…
Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with qubits 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, achieving a mean 20-second qubit lifetime compared to microseconds for competing approaches. Agentic A…
NVIDIA and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership at Microsoft Build to deliver a unified stack for agentic AI deployment across Windows devices, Azure cloud, and local systems. The collaboration includes new hardwa…
Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Cobalt 200, its second-generation custom Arm silicon for cloud-native and agentic AI workloads, at Build 2026. Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro are available on Cobalt 200 from the start of …
Perplexity AI announced a platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI inference between PCs and cloud servers in real time, acting as an "air-traffic controller" for AI tasks. The chip-agnostic system targets the cos…
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform and operating system for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional apps. The company is piloting two concept devices—a wearable badge and …
Microsoft unveiled an upgraded quantum chip designed to address persistent error problems in quantum computing by leveraging topological mathematics. Despite the advance, critics remain skeptical about the chip's ability…
AMD's MI300X accelerator, with 192GB of HBM3 memory and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, remains underutilized due to software incompatibilities. As of early May 2026, running vLLM with DeepSeek-V4-Flash on …
Microsoft announced Project Solara, a platform for AI agents, at Build 2026, demonstrating it on a smart display and a smart key badge reference device. The platform, built on a fork of Android, is designed to replace tr…
Microsoft released the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed for Windows developers, filling the void left by Qualcomm's canceled Snapdragon Dev Kit. The device combines Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm pr…
LEGO has launched Pokémon SMART Play sets that embed sensors, speakers, and LEDs into a 2x4 brick, enabling physical toy battles with reactive sound and light effects instead of silent plastic figures. The screen-free sy…
Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Build today, a desktop device powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip designed for sustained AI workloads like long-running training jobs and local model fine-tuning. The D…
Arm launched Arm AppReady for Windows, a program designed to help developers build native Windows on Arm applications by providing AI-enabled tooling, guidance, and access to Arm application experts. The initiative aims …
Marvell Technology has introduced a new switch silicon capable of 102.4 Tbps throughput, designed specifically for AI datacenter networks. The chipmaker claims the high-radix, low-latency, and low-power chip meets the de…
Nvidia announced new AI-powered PCs, positioning Dell as a potential major beneficiary due to its strong partnership and distribution network. The move is expected to boost demand for Dell's hardware, potentially driving…
Salesforce published a research paper acknowledging that approximately 30% of AI tasks do not require expensive GPU-based processing, contradicting the industry's prevailing assumption that all AI workloads demand high-c…
Nvidia shares rose after investor Cathie Wood expressed favor for the AI chip stock, signaling continued confidence in the company's growth prospects. The stock's performance is being closely watched by investors evaluat…
Intel's first 18A data center CPU, the Xeon 6+, delivers enhanced performance for server consolidation, according to a sponsored post featuring Intel's Kira Boyko. The chip aims to improve efficiency and total cost of ow…