AI Infrastructure

Asian shares mostly rose on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, while the Japanese yen hit a 39-year low against the U.S. dollar, trading near 162 yen. South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan rebounded from earlier losses, with …

A developer built a Hugging Face MCP server that enables AI agents to perform deep audits of model repositories directly from an IDE, eliminating the need for manual browsing. The tool allows agents to inspect file struc…

LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, introduces a hierarchical routing mechanism and hybrid parallelism to scale model capacity while maintaining deployment feasibility. The archit…

DeepSeek is introducing peak-hour surcharges for its API services, reversing its earlier price cuts that triggered a price war among Chinese AI companies. The surcharge doubles the cost of accessing its V4 models during …

Ottawa-based defence tech company Dominion Dynamics raised $139 million CAD in Series A financing, led by Georgian with participation from Valor Equity Partners, OMERS Ventures, and others. The round, Canada's largest de…

TurboPrefill introduces intra-prompt pipeline scheduling for multi-GPU prefill, achieving up to 2.7× faster performance than llama.cpp on Llama-3-70B by overlapping GPU stage execution. The PoC shows gains of 87-135% acr…

An autonomous AI agent named Alice Spark, running on a Windows VM, recovered from a system crash and shipped a product by noon. The agent fixed its own environment, migrated a website to a permanent free host by using an…

Ferrari and BMW have begun replacing copper wiring with aluminum in their electric and hybrid vehicles, challenging the demand thesis that has driven copper prices to record highs. The shift, driven by aluminum's lower c…

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives raised Apple's 12-month price target to $400, the most bullish on Wall Street, driven by AI services monetization that could add $75-$100 per share. The bull case assumes AI features generate $15…

Han Seong-sook, Korea's soon-to-be prime minister, is expected to accelerate the country's AI transformation as President Lee Jae Myung pushes to make Korea a top-three AI power. The parliamentary committee approved her …

LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center directly under its CEO, consolidating commercialization, sales, and operations for home, industrial, and commercial robots. The move, reported by Korea Herald and…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated Han Seong-sook, currently minister of SMEs and startups, as prime minister nominee, citing her IT and startup experience as suited to lead an 'AI transformation.' If confirm…

American employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the steepest monthly figure since January and the worst May since 2020, with artificial intelligence tied to 38,579 of the cuts, roughly 40% of the total. Meta, A…

Amazon is offering an 18% discount on the Gigabyte AERO X16 laptop, reducing its price to $1,699. The ultra-portable laptop features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and …

Anthropic's access controls for its AI models have created a global supply chain where individuals in lower-income countries are paid under $30 to complete biometric verification, enabling proxy access for developers in …

China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June 2026, beating expectations as AI-driven demand boosted high-tech manufacturing to 53.5, while the broader economy remained fragile due to a sluggish property market…

A developer building CliGate, a local AI control plane, discovered that AI assistants fail when they cannot operate outside of chat sessions. To solve this, they implemented background assistant runs with delayed wake-up…

President Lee Jae Myung traveled to Gwangju to launch South Korea's 'artificial intelligence industrial revolution,' backed by massive investments from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in chips, AI data centers, and rela…

India proposes Reforms 3.0 to build sovereign AI infrastructure, including open-source LLMs, low-cost AI tokens for researchers, and expanded domestic data centers. The plan aims to boost AI-driven productivity for 8%+ G…

A developer outlines the five pillars required to build production-grade AI agents: reliability, security, scalability, observability, and governance. The guide emphasizes that production-grade systems must degrade grace…