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OpenAI's first in-house AI chip, Jalapeño, outperformed Nvidia's GB300 in inference efficiency and speed per unit of power in initial benchmarks, signaling a growing challenge to Nvidia's dominance in AI chips. Developed…
An OpenAI researcher warned that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react, urging autonomous shutdown systems instead of simple monitoring. The warning coin…
Nvidia reported third-fiscal-quarter revenue above expectations and forecast a 70% revenue increase for fiscal 2028, reinforcing its position as the AI boom's bellwether. Separately, AWS acquired DuckLabs, the team behin…
NVIDIA reported $96.2 billion in revenue for fiscal Q2 2027, up 106% year-over-year, with net income of $59.7 billion and data center revenue of $89 billion, up 117%, undercutting speculation about a near-term default. T…
IBM announced a dual-ISA processor built on a 2nm node with 11 high-performance cores running above 5.7 GHz, each natively executing both Arm and IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions, including full hardware AArch64 v9.3 with …
Nvidia's data center revenue surged 117% year over year to $89 billion in the quarter ended July 26, with total revenue reaching $96.2 billion, and the company forecasts $108 billion for the current quarter. Amazon Web S…
The Trump administration is considering new tariffs on semiconductors, a move that could hinder the United States in the global AI race, according to POLITICO reporting. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and…
Apple's 2026 Mac mini, introduced this week with the new M6 and M5 Pro chips, offers up to four times faster AI performance and twice-as-fast graphics versus the 2024 M4 model, though ports, storage, and memory options r…
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for allegedly moving 47 shipments of Nvidia-powered AI servers into China via a route through multiple Asian transit points, which would be the first enfo…
Analog AI chips could solve the battery drain problem in edge devices by performing neural network computations directly in hardware using physical properties like voltage and current, rather than moving data between mem…
OpenAI has developed a new AI inference chip, reportedly named 'Jalapeno,' that outperforms Nvidia's offerings, according to a SemiAnalysis report. The chip is part of OpenAI's effort to reduce dependence on Nvidia and c…
NVIDIA and Google are racing to dominate the AI chip market, with NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin architectures and Google's TPU v8 and Ironwood v7 leading the shift toward energy-efficient 'tokens per watt' performance, as…
Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in August 2026, following a $20 billion acquisition of chipmaker Groq and enterprise analytics platform Kumo, consolidating control over AI …
OpenAI published first benchmark results for its custom AI inference chip Jalapeño, co-developed with Broadcom, showing 1.5 to 1.9 times greater peak performance per watt than Nvidia Blackwell systems in tests using Semi…
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China, potentially marking the first action against a transportation company for participating in the illegal s…
Intel's upcoming Datacenter GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, features a 480 GB LPDDR5X memory subsystem, the highest capacity of any GPU or AI accelerator, enabling it to run Deepseek-V4 Flash entirely from VRAM. The GPU,…
Kioxia Holdings plans to build a third chipmaking plant at its site in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, with manufacturing partner Sandisk, to produce high-density 3D flash memory chips for AI workloads. The investment responds …
Anthropic reportedly plans to spend about $45 billion renting AI cloud computing capacity from Nscale for a West Virginia data-center campus, with infrastructure expected to use NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips. The deal signals …
Cerebras Systems is demonstrating that its Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) architecture significantly reduces inference latency for large language models by keeping the entire model on a single silicon wafer, bypassing the memo…
Z.ai confirmed on August 26, 2026 that its anonymous model 'Ox Alpha' is GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 18 billion active parameters per token, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chip…