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Samsung Electronics reported a 19-fold surge in second-quarter 2026 operating profit to 89.4 trillion won, beating estimates, but shares fell up to 7.9% as investors questioned the sustainability of AI-driven memory dema…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced that artificial intelligence will be the 'central plank' of the city's economic development, guided by its first five-year blueprint and upcoming policy address. Speaking at t…
Chinese firms are shifting from Nvidia to domestic AI chips as Beijing certifies nine homegrown processors for state procurement, potentially collapsing Nvidia's China market share from 66% to 8% by 2026. Huawei's Ascend…
Apple now routes user data to Google Cloud for AI processing, undermining its privacy promises. Google automatically opted users into storing uploaded media for AI training. The partnership creates a data pipeline betwee…
A blog post on bawes.net describes the integration of spatial computing with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in an open virtual-world platform called Universe, where autonomous agents use MCP to access databases, APIs, …
Keyfactor announced a $1 billion-plus strategic growth investment led by Summit Partners on July 6, 2026, to expand trust infrastructure for AI and post-quantum enterprise security. The funding aims to address machine id…
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Naver signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an AI foundation model for defense applications, combining Naver's AI and cloud technologies with KAI's aerospace expert…
AMD has listed a Strix Halo mini PC powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU for $3,999, available starting July 10 through MicroCenter. The dev-kit system features 128 GB of shared memory and is designed for running large l…
AI programming agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf run on an AgentLoop analogous to a CPU's fetch-decode-execute cycle, but running them locally on laptops causes severe compute bottlenecks and session instabil…
An engineering team at an unnamed company audited its autonomous AI agent fleet and discovered 34 user-facing features that had silently failed, returning polite errors while dashboards remained green. The team identifie…
Asian equities slipped in early July 2026 despite Samsung's forecast of an 18-fold profit surge driven by AI chip demand, while the Japanese yen slid to 40-year lows near 162 per dollar, reshaping the macro landscape for…
Samsung Electronics reported a 19-fold surge in quarterly profit to 89.4 trillion won, beating expectations, driven by AI demand for memory chips. However, shares fell as investors worry about competition and overcapacit…
Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy3, a new reasoning model with 295 billion total parameters and 256K token context window, integrating it into products like WorkBuddy, Yuanbao, Marvis, and ima. The model is available via Tence…
Cerebras is running OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens per second on its WSE-3 chip, a 10x throughput improvement over Nvidia H100 clusters. This drastically reduces agentic workflow latency, but access is currently rest…
SK Hynix is listing American depositary shares on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY, giving U.S. investors direct access to the dominant HBM chipmaker. The $28.1 billion offering, the largest-ever U.S. stock sale by a foreign…
Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2…
Microsoft laid off about 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a shift toward engineering-led AI customer support. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2025 and coincide with the launch of Mic…
A developer successfully runs the Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 model locally on an Nvidia DGX Spark, achieving reasoning, tool use, and multi-token prediction at 256K context, and uses it to ship real code for an open-source project.…
Pi (Rust), a high-performance AI coding agent CLI written in Rust, has been released as a port of the original Pi Agent. It offers instant startup, stable streaming, and a smaller memory footprint compared to Node.js or …
Boris Tane argues that current AI agents are reactive, requiring human prompts to act, and announces his company's bet on proactive agents that autonomously find and execute work without human instruction. He identifies …