AI Infrastructure

SK Hynix, the trillion-dollar South Korean chipmaker, debuted on the Nasdaq at $170 a share on Friday, with its American depositary receipts rising nearly 20% to $18.61, signaling strong investor appetite for AI-related …

A developer built a tool that lets AI coding agents automatically sign up for third-party services, handle email verification, and securely store API keys in an encrypted vault, eliminating the last manual chore in AI-as…

Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base processed over 20 million agentic payment transfers in 90 days and 169 million total AI transactions as of July 2026, driven by the x402 protocol for stablecoin-settled machine-to-machine …

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned on July 10 that the global memory chip industry will face its worst-ever supply shortage starting in 2027, with demand outpacing supply until after 2030, driven by AI's insatiable appeti…

Meta Platforms shares surged approximately 15% in a week, the company's strongest showing since early 2024, driven by AI model launches and plans to build a cloud computing business that would compete with Amazon and Mic…

America's five biggest AI spenders—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle—have doubled their collective debt to $350 billion since 2021, betting on future AI revenue that has yet to materialize. The interest tab e…

General Fusion, a Vancouver-based fusion startup, will become the first publicly traded pure-play fusion energy company on NASDAQ under ticker GFUZ via a SPAC merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III, valuing the …

A new data-driven pipeline reduces GPU requirements for LLM adapters by 60% by predicting optimal resource allocation. The system uses a digital twin, a distilled machine learning model, and a greedy placement algorithm …

ARCQuant, a new framework for Large Language Model inference, uses the NVFP4 numerical format to achieve up to 3x speedup on GPUs while maintaining accuracy comparable to full-precision baselines. The method overcomes li…

Recent studies highlight that AI agents face efficiency challenges in memory, tool learning, and planning, which are critical for real-world deployment. Researchers emphasize balancing effectiveness with cost and latency…

The US Department of Commerce reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, easing export controls on advanced AI chips from Nvidia and other defense tech. The move unlocks license-free access for approved UAE entities, sup…

Elon Musk has directed Tesla employees to use Grok 4.5, an AI system from his own company xAI, and capped spending on rival AI tools at $200 per week per employee. The move raises conflict-of-interest concerns as Tesla h…

ZML released LLMD, a free inference server for open large language models that runs across Nvidia CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI and Apple Metal, aiming to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware. The J…

PC shipments are declining as surging demand for AI applications drives up memory prices, forcing major tech companies like Dell, Apple, and Microsoft to raise laptop prices, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Ho…

A developer explains how to overcome the 'Abstraction Tax' in Android Edge AI by using custom C++ operations via the NDK. The post details techniques like coarse-grained delegation and zero-copy data transfer with direct…

Cactus released version 2 of its on-device AI inference platform, featuring model confidence-based routing to cloud fallback, lossless 4-bit quantization, and GPU acceleration on Apple Metal. The platform processes milli…

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…