Microsoft AI hardware director joins OpenAI
Microsoft's senior director of AI systems hardware architecture has left to join OpenAI, per Data Center Dynamics. The move signals OpenAI's continued buildout of custom AI hardware capability.
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ASML sees AI chip boom beyond 2028 as financing risk grows
ASML expects AI-driven chip demand to keep booming past 2028, while warning that financing risk is rising across the sector.
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HCLTech taps Anthropic to boost enterprise AI offerings
IT services firm HCLTech is partnering with Anthropic to expand its enterprise AI play, per Mobile World Live. Financial terms and scope were not disclosed.
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Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip, claims 40% more efficiency
Microsoft is challenging Nvidia with its new Maia 300 AI chip, which it says delivers 40% greater efficiency.
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Musk says Grok can shop from a credit card photo; Visa warns on fraud
Elon Musk said uploading a credit card photo lets Grok shop for you, while Visa flags rising fraud risks in agentic payments. The claim highlights gaps in agent commerce safeguards.
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Visorway raises pre-seed at CHF 3M valuation
Visorway raised an angel-backed pre-seed round at a CHF 3 million valuation to scale AI-native procurement services.
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Intel to phase out SGX after Xeon Diamond Rapids for TDX
Intel will discontinue SGX after Xeon Diamond Rapids, shifting focus to TDX for cloud, enterprise and agentic AI security needs.
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The Information reports OpenAI's plan to revive Sora
The Information details OpenAI's plan to revive its Sora video generation product. Specifics are behind a paywall.
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Ex-Plaud Peter Mo raises $26M for Ambi AI assistant
Peter Mo, formerly of Plaud, raised $26 million for Ambi, an always-listening AI assistant.
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Thurrott declares Nvidia RTX Spark era has arrived
Thurrott.com piece heralds the arrival of Nvidia's RTX Spark era, following Microsoft's new AI chip news.
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Aidan Guo builds AI desktop assistant startup attracting investors
A young entrepreneur named Aidan Guo is building an AI desktop assistant, and his startup has already attracted backing from investors, according to The Economic Times.
Hardware.co launches custom AI hardware and private AI infrastructure
Hardware.co announced custom AI hardware and private AI infrastructure solutions, powered by DEV.co, aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own systems.
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Fedstack named an OpenAI Select Partner
Fedstack, a Smoothstack company, said it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner, a designation within OpenAI's partner program for companies building on its models.
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Musk touts Grok shopping purchases from a credit card photo
Elon Musk promoted how easily Grok can complete shopping purchases for users, saying you can just take a picture of your credit card to have the AI buy items.
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Review weighs ChatGPT work tasks for small businesses
A News Anyway piece assesses ChatGPT tasks aimed at small businesses, describing real productivity gains alongside caveats about reliability and oversight.
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Unitree founder says GPT-6 could spark robotics breakthrough
Unitree's founder said OpenAI's GPT-6 may lead to a robotics breakthrough as soon as next year, according to the South China Morning Post.
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Frore LiquidJet Diamond coldplate cools 2,300W Nvidia Rubin chips
Frore's bespoke LiquidJet Diamond coldplate uses diamond-infused watercooling to tame 770 W/cm2 hotspots on 2,300W Nvidia Rubin AI servers, cutting temps by up to 22C.
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Broadcom and Intel CEOs say capital is AI's next bottleneck
The CEOs of Broadcom and Intel said capital, not chip supply, is now the AI industry's next bottleneck, as infrastructure spending outpaces available funding.
AI industry spends billions on midterm election influence
The AI industry is flexing political muscle in the midterms with a multibillion-dollar spending spree, according to The Business Journals.
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip, targets 2027 launch
Microsoft announced the Maia 300, its newest homegrown AI accelerator focused on inference, with plans to deploy multiple gigawatts of capacity next year and launch in 2027.
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River AI launches inference pricing 20% below DeepSeek and Z.ai
River AI opened an inference service priced 20% below DeepSeek and Z.ai rates, adding pressure to the already competitive AI model price war.
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Ali Qwen launches QwenGyre online RL framework for agent tasks
Alibaba's Qwen launched QwenGyre, an online reinforcement learning framework for long-term agent tasks, per KuCoin.
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HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership
HCLTech and Anthropic signed a Global Premier Partnership to scale governed agentic AI across global enterprises, extending Anthropic's enterprise reach.
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Salesforce Agent Allowlist raises questions on AI commerce control
A Yahoo Finance piece examines what Salesforce's new Agent Allowlist means for controlling AI agents in commerce, letting firms govern which agents can act on their systems.
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DeepSeek backs ex-Tencent scientist's robotics startup Winverse AI
DeepSeek backed Winverse AI, a robotics startup founded by a former Tencent scientist, according to Bloomberg via Investing.com.
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Intel and Broadcom CEOs warn capital crunch is AI's biggest bottleneck
The CEOs of Intel and Broadcom warned that access to capital could emerge as a major constraint on the artificial intelligence boom.
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Nvidia's next move could spell trouble for software workers
TheStreet and Yahoo Finance report that Nvidia's next move could threaten software workers, suggesting AI tooling that automates coding and other software tasks.
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Mistlabs launches Ambi, an AI that thinks ahead
Mistlabs launched Ambi, described as a new type of AI that anticipates and thinks ahead, with the aim of enabling AI-to-AI communication.
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Microsoft announces third-generation Maia 300 AI chip
Microsoft unveils Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, designed as the primary AI inference system for its products and more capable of handling latest workloads.
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AMD debuts Helion rack-scale design for agentic AI servers
At OCP Global Summit, AMD unveiled Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI supporting up to 32,768 Zen 6 'Venice' CPU cores.
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HARTING joins Nvidia MGX ecosystem for AI infrastructure
HARTING announced it is joining Nvidia's MGX ecosystem to build next-generation AI infrastructure hardware.
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Pax8 finds small businesses adopt AI faster than they govern it
Pax8 research reports small businesses are building AI faster than they can govern it, highlighting a growing governance gap.
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Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip to cut Nvidia reliance
Microsoft revealed its Maia 300 AI chip, aiming to power more of its AI products with homegrown silicon and reduce dependence on Nvidia and AMD as every major Nvidia customer becomes a competitor.
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Cerebras stock swings on OpenAI chip report, Altman comment
Cerebras shares fell on a report about OpenAI's chips, then rose 9% after Sam Altman weighed in.
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Perplexity AI agent builds GeoGuessLM to pinpoint photo locations
A Perplexity AI agent autonomously built GeoGuessLM, a tool that identifies where a photo was taken from visual clues alone.
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Nvidia nears $6 trillion market cap on record AI chip demand
Nvidia's market capitalization approached $6 trillion as relentless AI chip demand powered record growth.
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Anthropic's Claude gains ability to refuse tasks as disciplinary agent
Anthropic's Claude is described as acting as a disciplinary agent, gaining the ability to walk away from or refuse certain tasks.
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Karpathy says external world has seen only AI preview
Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says about 75% of the world has barely touched LLMs, while roughly 5,000 people access internal frontier systems.
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Anthropic urges data center partners to speed capacity buildout
Anthropic reportedly called on its data center partners to accelerate capacity buildout to meet AI compute demand.
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App turns any historical moment into an interruptible AI podcast
A new app lets you type any topic, person or moment and produces a researched two-host podcast with sources and artwork that you can interrupt.
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