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AMD buys Taalas to hard-wire AI models onto silicon

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Anthropic builds custom silicon team for Claude chips

Ars Technica AI • 4 days ago

ASML's dominance in chipmaking equipment is weakening

FT AI • 3 Aug 2026

SpaceX and Tesla to Build $16.8B Texas Chip Factory

AI Business • 3 days ago

SK hynix Approves $39 Billion for Two AI Memory Fabs

Unite.AI • 4 days ago

Bipartisan backlash threatens AI data center expansion

WIRED AI • 4 Aug 2026

Nvidia and Amazon Fund Massive Texas Power Projects

The Decoder • 2 days ago

US awards GlobalFoundries $300M for silicon photonics

AI Business • 3 Aug 2026

DeepSeek Backs Unitree to Build Humanoid Robot Brains

AI Business • 3 days ago

Auterion supplies Ukraine with 50,000 AI drone kits

Ars Technica AI • 3 Aug 2026

Apple lobbies US to source iPhone RAM from China's CXMT

Computerworld AI • 23 hrs ago

Ati Robotics offers China-free robots to Western buyers

WIRED AI • 4 Aug 2026

Valar Atomics raises $1B for data center reactors.

Unite.AI • 3 Aug 2026

Situational Awareness Invests $400M in Source Foundry

TechCrunch AI • 1 day ago

OpenAI and Jony Ive plan $300 smart speaker for 2027

The Verge AI • 4 days ago

d-Matrix buys Wallaroo to orchestrate chip inference

Unite.AI • 3 Aug 2026

Amazon Backs Texas Gas Plant With Record Emission Permit

The Verge AI • 1 day ago

HD Hyundai Wins $673M Engine Order for US Data Centers

Unite.AI • 1 day ago

Firebird Plans 2-Gigawatt Global AI Factory Network

Unite.AI • 2 days ago

Firebird Launches the CIS Region's Largest AI Factory

Unite.AI • 3 days ago

NVIDIA launches nvmath-python v1.0 for math scale

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

Antora raises $550M for AI data center batteries

Crunchbase News • 30 Jul 2026

Meta details FBTriton compiler validation system

PyTorch Blog • 30 Jul 2026

NXP in talks to buy self-driving chip designer for $3B

FT AI • 31 Jul 2026

NVIDIA's Vera processor beats x86 CPUs in benchmarks

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

NVIDIA and Applied Materials speed up chip simulation

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

Citylink to heat Polish homes with data center waste

Computerworld AI • 3 days ago

NVIDIA warns of cluster errors causing 53% lag

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

Airbnb Engineer Shows Valkey Can Slash AI Latency

InfoQ AI • 5 days ago

Enterprise AI shifts to in-house GPU orchestration

Hugging Face Blog • 30 Jul 2026

NVIDIA shares architecture for shared GPU clusters

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

EON raises $10.7M for space-based laser network

TechCrunch AI • 4 Aug 2026

NVIDIA launches Video Codec SDK 13.1

NVIDIA Developer Blog • 4 days ago

Autonomous Key uses AI to curb screen addiction

TechCrunch AI • 1 Aug 2026

AMD buys Taalas to hard-wire AI models onto silicon

AMD has agreed to acquire Canadian startup Taalas, a move that could radically accelerate AI inference by hard-coding specific models directly into...

The Decoder|3 days ago

Anthropic builds custom silicon team for Claude chips

Anthropic is building an in-house custom silicon team to design proprietary chips for its Claude models, aiming to boost performance and reduce its...

Ars Technica AI|4 days ago

ASML's dominance in chipmaking equipment is weakening

The long-standing dominance of photolithography giant ASML over the semiconductor manufacturing equipment market is showing signs of weakening,...

FT AI|3 Aug 2026

SpaceX and Tesla to Build $16.8B Texas Chip Factory

SpaceX and Tesla are investing $16.8 billion to build a massive semiconductor factory in Texas, aiming to secure their own supply of advanced chips...

AI Business|3 days ago

SK hynix Approves $39 Billion for Two AI Memory Fabs

SK hynix approved 54 trillion won for two new fabrication plants to secure the high-bandwidth memory and enterprise SSD supply chains essential for...

Unite.AI|4 days ago

Bipartisan backlash threatens AI data center expansion

A surging bipartisan backlash against AI data centers is uniting environmentalists and right-wing populists, threatening the physical infrastructure...

WIRED AI|4 Aug 2026

Nvidia and Amazon Fund Massive Texas Power Projects

As artificial intelligence workloads demand unprecedented amounts of electricity, Nvidia and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to secure...

The Decoder|2 days ago

US awards GlobalFoundries $300M for silicon photonics

The US Commerce Department has awarded GlobalFoundries $300 million to advance silicon photonics, a move aimed at boosting domestic AI infrastructure...

AI Business|3 Aug 2026

DeepSeek Backs Unitree to Build Humanoid Robot Brains

Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has invested $2.8 million in robot maker Unitree’s Shanghai IPO to co-develop embodied artificial intelligence models...

AI Business|3 days ago

Auterion supplies Ukraine with 50,000 AI drone kits

US-based Auterion is supplying Ukraine with 50,000 AI-powered Skynode S kits to upgrade cheap Shrike drones, enabling autonomous target tracking even...

Ars Technica AI|3 Aug 2026

Apple lobbies US to source iPhone RAM from China's CXMT

Apple is seeking White House approval to source memory chips from Chinese supplier CXMT, a strategic move to bypass a global DRAM shortage that...

Computerworld AI|23 hrs ago

Ati Robotics offers China-free robots to Western buyers

Following a US ban on Chinese-made robots, Indian startup Ati Robotics is leveraging its mostly China-free supply chain to offer Western buyers a...

WIRED AI|4 Aug 2026

Valar Atomics raises $1B for data center reactors.

Valar Atomics has raised $1 billion in Series B funding to mass-produce small, waterless nuclear reactors, offering AI data centers a way to bypass...

Unite.AI|3 Aug 2026

Situational Awareness Invests $400M in Source Foundry

AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness has invested $400 million in chip startup Source Foundry, signaling continued private backing for...

TechCrunch AI|1 day ago

OpenAI and Jony Ive plan $300 smart speaker for 2027

OpenAI is reportedly collaborating with designer Jony Ive on a $300-plus, doughnut-shaped smart speaker slated for 2027, marking the startup's first...

The Verge AI|4 days ago

d-Matrix buys Wallaroo to orchestrate chip inference

Chipmaker d-Matrix has acquired AI inference orchestration startup Wallaroo.ai to simplify the deployment of its Corsair accelerators alongside...

Unite.AI|3 Aug 2026

Amazon Backs Texas Gas Plant With Record Emission Permit

Amazon is backing a massive new natural-gas power plant in Texas to fuel its AI data centers, highlighting the severe environmental toll of the tech...

The Verge AI|1 day ago

HD Hyundai Wins $673M Engine Order for US Data Centers

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured a $673.8 million contract to supply 1,000 megawatts of HiMSEN engines to U.S. data centers, bypassing slow...

Unite.AI|1 day ago

Firebird Plans 2-Gigawatt Global AI Factory Network

Following the launch of its first AI factory in Armenia, Firebird is expanding its global infrastructure pipeline to two gigawatts to bring advanced...

Unite.AI|2 days ago

Firebird Launches the CIS Region's Largest AI Factory

U.S. cloud provider Firebird has opened the largest AI data center in the CIS region in Armenia, marking a major expansion of high-performance...

Unite.AI|3 days ago

NVIDIA launches nvmath-python v1.0 for math scale

NVIDIA has launched nvmath-python v1.0, bringing high-performance CUDA-X and NVPL math libraries to Python to accelerate scientific computing across...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

Antora raises $550M for AI data center batteries

Thermal battery startup Antora Energy has raised $550 million in Series C funding to accelerate the deployment of its carbon-block energy storage...

Crunchbase News|30 Jul 2026

Meta details FBTriton compiler validation system

Meta has detailed its FBTriton infrastructure, which uses AI agents and a three-tiered validation system to keep its custom GPU compiler fork...

PyTorch Blog|30 Jul 2026

NXP in talks to buy self-driving chip designer for $3B

NXP Semiconductors is reportedly in talks to acquire a designer of camera chips for self-driving cars in a transaction valued at over $3 billion.

FT AI|31 Jul 2026

NVIDIA's Vera processor beats x86 CPUs in benchmarks

NVIDIA's new Vera BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor significantly outperforms x86 CPUs in key storage benchmarks, promising to eliminate data...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

NVIDIA and Applied Materials speed up chip simulation

Applied Materials and NVIDIA have partnered to integrate GPU-accelerated platforms, slashing semiconductor simulation times by up to 55x to...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

Citylink to heat Polish homes with data center waste

Polish developer Citylink is partnering with energy firm Kogeneracja to channel waste heat from a new AI-focused data center in Wrocław directly into...

Computerworld AI|3 days ago

NVIDIA warns of cluster errors causing 53% lag

NVIDIA has detailed how minor configuration errors in advanced AI clusters can cause up to 53% performance drops, preventing systems from meeting...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

Airbnb Engineer Shows Valkey Can Slash AI Latency

Airbnb lead engineer Dumanshu Goyal has demonstrated how direct-access Valkey architectures bypass proxy bottlenecks to deliver microsecond-level...

InfoQ AI|5 days ago

Enterprise AI shifts to in-house GPU orchestration

As enterprise AI shifts from API-based models to in-house hardware, maximizing GPU utilization through active orchestration has emerged as the...

Hugging Face Blog|30 Jul 2026

NVIDIA shares architecture for shared GPU clusters

NVIDIA has detailed a new architecture combining KAI Scheduler and vCluster to let multiple teams run isolated Kubernetes clusters on a single shared...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

EON raises $10.7M for space-based laser network

Startup EON has emerged from stealth with $10.75 million to build a space-based laser network, aiming to bypass vulnerable undersea cables and link...

TechCrunch AI|4 Aug 2026

NVIDIA launches Video Codec SDK 13.1

NVIDIA has launched Video Codec SDK 13.1, introducing zero-copy transcoding, AV1 B-frame support, and frame-accurate seeking to dramatically boost...

NVIDIA Developer Blog|4 days ago

Autonomous Key uses AI to curb screen addiction

The newly launched $9 Autonomous Key uses physical NFC hardware and AI-driven insights to curb screen addiction, offering a highly affordable...

TechCrunch AI|1 Aug 2026