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OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

OpenAI has unveiled details about its Jalapeño chip, an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) developed in partnership with Broadcom, designed specifically for AI inference—the process of run

Meet Silicon Data, the startup helping Wall Street price AI compute

Silicon Data has closed a $30 million Series A funding round to help Wall Street put a price on AI compute. The startup aims to become the reference price for GPU rental and create an index that a Wal

Nvidia's push to make compute an investable asset class draws scrutiny

Nvidia is partnering with major financial firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create $500 billion in financing to turn compute into an investable asset

Suno plans watermarks for AI-generated music to meet industry standards

Suno, one of the most prolific AI music generators, is adding watermarks to all audio outputs to address concerns about AI-generated content flooding streaming services. CEO Mikey Shulman announced in

Designing AI Agents That Can Self-Correct

A 2024 paper titled "Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet" found that LLMs don't reliably catch their own mistakes without external input, and sometimes make outputs worse by talkin

Measuring Performance of Transformer Inference

LLM inference performance involves multiple metrics beyond a single latency number. Key metrics include latency (total request time), time to first token (TTFT), time per output token (TPOT), throughp

Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

Samsung chip workers are leaving for rival SK Hynix, driven by a massive bonus gap between the two companies. SK Hynix is paying its employees approximately $476,000 each—funded by record profits from

Anthropic's Amodei clarifies: no ban on open-weight AI, but China remains key threat

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has clarified that his company has never advocated for banning open-weight AI models, responding to an open letter from Nvidia, Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral ur

Hugging Face breach revives AI alignment versus control debate

The breach at Hugging Face, involving OpenAI's model, has emerged as the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model. Security researchers have split into two camps on how to re

OpenAI releases Micro keypad for coders, leaves others puzzled

OpenAI has released Micro, a small hardware keypad with six "agent" keys and six command keys designed to work with ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex. The device connects via Bluetooth or USB and feat

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

Large diffusion transformers require 20-30 GB of VRAM in BF16 precision, making them inaccessible to most consumer GPUs. Most existing quantization backends like bitsandbytes, GGUF, torchao, and Quant

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic partnership

AMD announced it will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a new partnership aimed at expanding the AI company's computing power. Under the agreement, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatt

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

Apple filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging that OpenAI recruited former Apple employees to share confidential information. OpenAI responded that it is "not aware of any ev

OpenAI's first device is a ChatGPT smart speaker launching in 2027

OpenAI's first major hardware device will be a smart speaker enabling voice conversations with ChatGPT, developed in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive following OpenAI's nearly $6.5 bi

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

Anthropic has uncovered a hidden internal space within its AI models—called the "J-space"—filled with words that don't appear in output but influence how models reason through problems. The company de

The Download: South Korea's hottest bachelors and advances in eye transplants

Chip workers at South Korea's SK Hynix have become the country's most sought-after bachelors and bachelorettes thanks to AI chip boom profits. The semiconductor company agreed to pay 10% of operating

OpenAI is teasing new hardware for Codex, built with Work Louder

OpenAI is releasing a device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. A video posted to X on Monday shows a square-shaped device with several buttons alongside the caption, “Your fa

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

Google expert Richard Seroter, who leads developer experience at Google Cloud, explains that a "full-stack" AI approach integrates every layer of technology—from hardware and models to user interfaces

Apple Vision Pro executive reportedly leaving for OpenAI

An Apple Vision Pro executive is leaving the company to join OpenAI's hardware team, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The executive also reportedly led the development of AI-powered smart glasses

Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to nearly eliminate water use

Nvidia claims that its Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." The company says that by

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has privately warned executives at ASML, the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, that he believes one of the company's extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) mac

Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has shared fresh details about Apple's hardware roadmap through 2027, including camera-equipped AirPods, a second-generation folding iPhone, and a special 20th anniversary mode

This is your laptop… on AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his keynote this week to pitch a radical vision for the future of personal computing — one where laptops are rebuilt from the ground up to run AI models locally. Speaking

This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton

Nvidia has officially entered the consumer laptop processor market with its RTX Spark chip, drawing immediate comparisons to Apple's game-changing M1 debut in 2020. Announced at Computex 2026 and cove

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU market with a processor designed specifically for AI-powered

After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th

After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed Wednesday. The deal represents a substantial portion of Snowfl

Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year

Samsung and its semiconductor workers have reached a tentative agreement that could see some employees receive bonuses totaling $340,000 annually. The deal was struck after 48,000 Samsung workers thre

Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups

Nvidia reported another quarter of record-breaking financial results, with $81.6 billion in revenue for the period ending April 26, representing a 20% increase from the previous quarter. The company's

Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them

OpenAI's ambitious project to develop a custom AI chip with Broadcom has encountered a significant hurdle due to funding concerns. According to reports, Broadcom is hesitant to proceed with the produc

RingCentral adds Shopify, Calendly, and WhatsApp to AI Receptionist

RingCentral has made significant enhancements to its AI Receptionist (AIR) product, integrating it with popular platforms such as Shopify, Calendly, and WhatsApp. This move reflects the company's goal

The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory

Researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in AI systems, revealing that even basic tools and memory upgrades can expose sensitive information. This issue, dubbed the "AI Agent Security Surf

SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas

In a massive undertaking, Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to invest a staggering $55 billion in its "Terafab" chip manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas. According to public records, the company has filed

SpaceX may spend up to $119B on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

SpaceX has submitted a proposal to build a massive semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas, with a price tag of up to $119 billion. Dubbed the "Terafab" project, the facility would be a cutting-

OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks

In a major breakthrough, OpenAI has collaborated with industry giants AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to create a revolutionary new networking protocol called MRC (Multi-Regional Convergen

Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude

In a major development, AI research firm Anthropic has secured access to the massive Colossus-1 data center operated by SpaceX, which boasts an impressive 300 megawatts of computing power and a stagge

SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, is reportedly planning a massive investment in Texas. According to a recent filing with Grimes County, the company

Deepseek nears $45 billion valuation as China's state chip fund leads round

Chinese AI Lab Deepseek is on the cusp of securing a massive funding round, which could catapult its valuation to a staggering $45 billion. According to a report from the Financial Times, the latest i

How to Make Claude Code Validate its own Work

Meta AI's Large Language Model, Claude, has been enhanced with a new feature that enables it to validate its own output. This self-validation capability is expected to significantly improve Claude's p

OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream

OpenAI is making a significant foray into the hardware market with the development of its own smartphone, reportedly set to feature AI-powered features that could revolutionize the way users interact

What LG and NVIDIA’s talks reveal about the future of physical AI

LG and NVIDIA are in the midst of a high-level discussion about harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in the physical world. In a recent meeting in Seoul, LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madis

OpenAI is reportedly launching a phone for ChatGPT

OpenAI is reportedly accelerating plans to release its first hardware product, a smartphone, instead of a previously rumored device designed in collaboration with Jony Ive. According to supply chain a

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