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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…
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…