AI Infrastructure

SK Hynix completed a record $26.5 billion US share sale and signaled it may issue more if returns remain strong, potentially diverting institutional capital from cryptocurrencies toward AI infrastructure. The chipmaker's…

OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic released a flurry of new AI products and models over 72 hours, including OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family and GPT-Live voice model, Meta's Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1, and SpaceXAI's Grok 4…

KTern.AI, an SAP digital transformation platform, built and deployed agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to autonomously orchestrate SAP transformation workflows, including reverse engineering and code analysis. The s…

NVIDIA released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a single model that eliminates the need for a separate draft model in speculative decoding, achieving 6.82 accepted tokens per forward pass in self-speculation mode. The 8B varian…

AWS introduced disaggregated prefill and decode (DPD) for LLM inference on SageMaker HyperPod, separating compute-bound prefill and memory-bound decode onto different GPU pools connected via EFA RDMA to eliminate interfe…

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won announced a strategic pivot to Memory-as-a-Service (MaaS), using CXL interconnect technology to sell pooled memory on demand rather than physical chips. The move aims to create recurring re…

Cloudflare introduced temporary accounts that let AI agents deploy Workers without authentication, with deployments expiring after 60 minutes unless claimed by a human. The feature aims to remove automation bottlenecks f…

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller argued that America's $700 billion AI infrastructure buildout will lower consumer prices, but other Fed officials warned the massive investment could fuel persistent inflation.…

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) unveiled an AI accountability agenda on Friday, a package of bills requiring data centers to obtain FCC certification proving they will not harm the public interest, mandating bias audits for hig…

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest foreign listing in US history, driven by AI demand for memory chips. AI-driven shortages are raising consumer prices on electronics and contributing to inflation, creating a p…

A computer engineer argues that the true complexity of AI lies not in model architecture but in the underlying data pipeline, storage, and compute infrastructure, which consumes 80% of time and 90% of budget. The piece d…

Slimbook launched the Nexus AI Workstation Series, offering two configurations (Ryzen AI and Threadripper AI) designed for local AI development and deployment. The workstations target professionals and businesses seeking…

Blaze raised the price of its Super Pocket handheld gaming device, citing increased demand for AI components that has driven up manufacturing costs across the industry. The company said it had absorbed rising expenses fo…

Britain has signed a £2bn contract with a consortium led by Raytheon UK to train its army using an AI-powered Combat Laboratory, a digital platform that simulates modern warfare. The 15-year deal, which includes German f…

Morgan Stanley chief US equity strategist Mike Wilson warned that semiconductor stocks are overbought, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 96% year-to-date and trading 35% above its 50-day moving average, the wi…

Skipper has added HD camera quality profile switching, allowing the system to autonomously determine optimal camera settings. The update also centralizes runtime config defaults for improved organization and introduces A…

Vercel AI SDK 6 introduces an agent framework where an agent is essentially a while loop that repeatedly calls a model and runs tools until a stopping condition is met. A developer demonstrated that without the `stopWhen…

Sam Bhagwat, CEO of Mastra, identified three production patterns for AI agents—customer-facing, internal enterprise, and developer platform—each with distinct harness, eval, and rollout strategies. Speaking at Arize Obse…

The bill of materials for the iPhone 18 Pro Max is expected to rise by nearly $300 compared to the iPhone 17 Pro Max, driven by a memory chip shortage linked to AI hardware demand and Apple's shift to a 2nm chip. Counter…

Microsoft integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 as the default model for its 365 Copilot suite on July 9, 2024, enhancing complex multi-step tasks across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The deployment raises transparency concerns amo…