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OKX launched an open protocol on April 29 that enables AI agents to autonomously hire, pay, and dispute with each other on-chain, aiming to become the payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. The protocol, support…
AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation, snapshot-based rapid launch, and state preservati…
An engineer built an AI pipeline for a job platform that processed 10,000 daily listings, but the project was shut down when the API bill reached $3,000 per month for a single feature. The developer learned to use struct…
Chip stocks are heading for their best quarter ever, with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index soaring 81% in Q2, driven by AI demand. However, recent volatility and concerns about sustainability have inve…
AI agents are becoming colleagues in the workplace, with Gartner forecasting AI agent software spending to reach $376.3 billion by 2027. Experts from Fanatics and other firms advise benchmarking tools, staying open to ne…
Samsung and SK hynix reaffirmed plans to invest about 800 trillion won ($518 billion) to build new semiconductor fabs and AI data centers in Korea's southwest, citing surging AI-driven memory demand. The companies argued…
A new report highlights that AI code generation tools alone are insufficient for the full software development lifecycle, as developers spend only 16% of their time writing code. The article recommends five tools to bols…
Crypto exchange OKX launched a marketplace for AI agents to hire each other, settle payments autonomously, and build on-chain reputations, betting on a future where autonomous software drives a trillion-dollar 'agentic e…
Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI coding budget within four months, highlighting the challenge of consumption-based AI costs that are difficult to forecast and attribute. The company's COO noted the difficulty in drawing…
China announced the initial scale deployment of embodied AI in complex automotive supply chains, challenging Western dominance in high-value manufacturing. The move aligns with Beijing's 'Made in China 2025' strategy to …
Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro Computer's local office and affiliated sites on June 29, escalating a probe into allegations that Nvidia AI chips were smuggled into China via Super Micro servers. The investigati…
Scan Computers has evolved into a leading provider of AI, cloud and advanced computing solutions, including humanoid robots and cloud compute platforms, as one of only a handful of NVIDIA Elite Solution Partners in the U…
A developer at TokenBay argues that OpenAI-compatible APIs are becoming the de facto standard for AI app development, as developers prefer a unified interface to avoid rewriting SDKs and business logic when switching mod…
Sugon's ParaStor F9000 all-flash distributed storage system achieved the top score of 79,110 on the IO500 Production SC26 List at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg, more than doubling the second-ranked system. The ben…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix pledged 3,200 trillion won ($2.07 trillion) in investments to expand South Korea's memory chip production capacity, betting on sustained AI demand. The plan, supported by President Lee Ja…
Straiker, an agentic security startup, raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure AI agents in enterprises. The company's platform detects, tests, and monitors AI agents to prevent attacks, as traditional security …
Physical AI raised $55.8 billion in H1 2026, nearly double the full-year record from 2025, with 12 commercial humanoid platforms available and Figure AI delivering 350+ units. NVIDIA released new Vision-Language-Action m…
Deepseek's new DSpark framework boosts per-user AI response speed by 60 to 85 percent by using a small model to propose token candidates that a larger model checks in batches, reducing dependence on US high-end chips ami…
Anthropic introduced and open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that enables AI applications to communicate with external tools, resources, and systems in a standardized manner. MCP solves integr…
Ollama's new MLX engine enables local LLM inference on MacBook Air at twice the speed, making powerful AI accessible on consumer hardware without cloud dependency.