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China imposed a temporary export ban on helium on July 10, 2026, citing foreign-trade rules amid Middle East conflict that threatens global supplies. The move aims to protect domestic semiconductor manufacturing, as heli…
Meta plans to begin production of its proprietary 'Iris' AI chip in September 2026 as part of a strategy to double computing power to 14 gigawatts by 2027 and deliver personal super intelligence to users. The chip, part …
The UK Ministry of Defence awarded a £2 billion, 15-year contract to Omnia Training, a consortium led by Raytheon UK and including Rheinmetall UK, to build an AI-powered collective training system for the British Army. T…
SK hynix listed its American Depositary Receipts on the Nasdaq stock market on Friday to expand its global capital markets presence and strengthen its role as a key supplier in the AI semiconductor ecosystem. The listing…
SK Hynix's American Depositary Receipts are indicated to open at $180, a 21% premium above its $149 IPO price, in the largest foreign listing in US history. The South Korean chipmaker raised $26.5 billion through the off…
Microsoft's annual sustainability report reveals a 29% increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 to 2023, driven largely by the construction of AI data centers, complicating the company's goal of becoming carbon-neg…
The five largest US tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle—have doubled their combined debt to $350 billion over five years to fund AI data centers, with interest payments more than doubling since 2…
Semantic caching optimizes LLM applications by caching responses based on query meaning rather than exact wording, reducing latency and API costs while maintaining accuracy. The technique distinguishes itself from tradit…
SK hynix opened its Nasdaq listing with a record $26.5 billion share offering, marking the largest US share sale by a foreign company. CEO Kwak Noh-jung said the listing brings the chipmaker closer to global investors an…
A developer building an AI-powered platform for rare disease diagnosis used SigNoz to add observability to a LangGraph-based multi-agent system. The system, which includes twelve components like an Orchestrator and Sympt…
StepFun, a Chinese AI unicorn, is developing its first agentic AI smartphone, signaling a shift in AI competition from data centers to mobile devices. The company, backed by electronics supply chain firms including Huaqi…
Bryan Oliver, a Thoughtworks Radar contributor and author, presented on chaos engineering for GPU clusters at a recent event, highlighting the complexity and scale of modern AI hardware such as NVIDIA H100 and GB200 Grac…
A record number of tech stock insiders are buying their own shares in 2026, with 28 executives at companies within the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF purchasing stock on the open market over the past six …
AI-enhanced cloud computing is transforming enterprise operations by embedding inference pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows into cloud environments, enabling context-aware decisions and redu…
Sunrun, the largest US residential solar provider, launched a pilot program to install AI compute nodes in customers' homes, paying homeowners to host the hardware and selling the compute power to enterprise clients. The…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training marketplace run by a 23-year-old CEO, is in talks to raise at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth in nine months despite a recent data breach that cost it Meta as a customer. …
The UK Ministry of Defence awarded a £2 billion contract to a Raytheon UK-led consortium to overhaul British Army training using AI, analytics, and simulation. The 15-year Army Collective Training System deal will train …
Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for its efficiency despite higher costs than local rivals, accessing the blocked service via VPNs. The launch introduces three models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Terra offering GPT-5.5…
China activated the Zhengzhou core node of its national supercomputing internet on July 10, 2026, adding a 100,000-card AI computing pool for large-model and scientific AI workloads. The network now aggregates over 3.5 m…
Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin to fund a $65 million investment in a 150 MW AI data center project in the Midwest developed with Hunt Properties. The company, which rebranded from Volcon as a Bitcoin treasury firm in …