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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North Carolina repealed the sales tax exemption on electricity for data centers while preserving equipment incentives, a policy shift driven by AI infrastructure's growing power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…
The Federal Reserve warns that AI-driven demand for DRAM and NAND memory chips is pushing up core PCE inflation by 30 basis points, with May 2026 core PCE at 3.4% and headline PCE at 4.1%. Apple has raised prices on MacB…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed co-lead of the Federal Reserve's Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, tasked with evaluating AI's impact on labor markets and monetary policy, just two days after Xbox anno…
Meta shares surged nearly 15% last week, their best performance since early 2024, driven by new AI product launches and a strategy to fully automate ad creation by 2026. The company's massive AI infrastructure spending, …
Citi reiterated a Buy rating on Nvidia with a $300 price target after speaking with the company's investor relations team, confirming its AI product roadmap remains on track amid rumors of delays. Nvidia also plans a $20…
A developer released a CUDA-native AI guardrail kernel written in C++20 that uses physical memory address binding and branchless multi-dimensional scanning to achieve zero-latency adversarial input detection, bypassing t…
The U.S. Department of Commerce has relaxed export restrictions for the United Arab Emirates, allowing Apple and seven other U.S. companies to bring advanced-computing chips, servers, and controlled technology into the U…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor IDE, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, 2026. The acquisition raises concerns about Cursor's model neutrality, as SpaceX's xAI division may …
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (max) achieved the highest Presentation Elo score in Artificial Analysis's AA-Briefcase benchmark, outperforming competitors like Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (max) in presentation quality. The model a…