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Altera, the world's largest pure-play FPGA provider, returned to growth with roughly 20% annual revenue growth and more than doubled operating income, driven by demand for its programmable chips in AI, robotics, and edge…
MLCommons added an Agentic Inference benchmark to MLPerf on July 8, 2026, measuring how LLM serving systems handle multi-turn agent tasks with growing context and tool use. The benchmark uses 490 coding and 500 workflow …
AI-related free cash flow is shifting from Big Tech hyperscalers to chipmakers, according to Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre. The trend highlights a divergence in AI investment returns, with chipmakers…
A VentureBeat survey of 107 enterprises found that 54% have experienced an AI agent security incident or near-incident, with 69% using shared credentials across bots and only 30% sandboxing high-risk agents. The findings…
A KPMG survey of 2,145 senior executives across 20 countries found that 29% do not know what is driving their organizations' rising AI expenses, and one-third say limited understanding of AI economics hinders implementat…
An engineer building an autonomous AI organism with a constitutional safety model discovered that its tamper-evident hash-chain log was vulnerable to race conditions and lacked external anchoring. The log had two writers…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, pricing it over 60% cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model features a 500K token con…
PingCAP argues that Databricks' newly introduced LTAP architecture is not a breakthrough but a validation of the HTAP architecture that TiDB has provided for years. The company states that AI agents, which mix transactio…
Meta is transitioning from an ad-driven giant to a vertically integrated AI hyperscaler with its custom 'Iris' AI chip scheduled for production in September 2026 and the launch of 'Meta Compute,' a new cloud unit selling…
Acxiom Chief Cloud and Data Modernization Officer Ankur Jain argues that organizations must modernize their data infrastructure before building agentic AI, warning that legacy systems create immediate scalability and per…
Empery Digital Inc. sold 1,400 Bitcoin for $87.1 million since May 7, reducing its BTC treasury by nearly half. The firm used $10 million to repay debt, allocated funds for a $65 million AI data center property acquisiti…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its U.S. listing on the Nasdaq, the largest ever by a foreign firm, to expand capacity for AI data center demand. The company's ADRs priced at $149 and rose to over $173, as memory prices…
Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent have accessed advanced AI services from Google and OpenAI through their Singapore-based subsidiaries, according to a Financial Times report. The access e…
Altera, the programmable chip maker spun out of Intel, is growing roughly 20% annually and more than doubling operating income as it prepares for an eventual public listing, CEO Raghib Hussain said. The company is positi…
Dubai-based physical AI startup Ahoy is relocating its R&D hub to Montréal, planning to hire 200 people for research, engineering, and go-to-market roles. The company, which develops AI infrastructure for physical-world …
Galaxy Digital completed Phase I of its Helios data center campus in West Texas, delivering 133 megawatts to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. CEO Mike Novogratz pivoted the site from a distressed bitcoin mine to an AI po…
North Carolina repealed the sales tax exemption on electricity for data centers while preserving equipment incentives, a policy shift driven by AI infrastructure's growing power demand. The change, part of the state's 20…
Aweb.ai launched Library, an open-source tool that lets teams create, manage, and evolve AI agent profiles as versioned files. The platform enables teams to adopt blueprints, run agents in tmux, and approve profile chang…
Enterprise knowledge is becoming more valuable than AI models as organizations realize that model choice matters less than access to trusted, organized internal data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that gro…
NVIDIA and Google researchers have developed a host offloading technique in JAX that reduces high-bandwidth memory bottlenecks during LLM training, achieving up to 57% throughput improvements on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system…