7+ hour, 22+ min ago   (553+ words) Nvidia built its name selling the expensive chips that power AI. Now it is giving away the software that runs on them. The company released an open-source AI model called Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Aug 11, 2026. Nvidia calls it lightweight. The model…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (438+ words) Microsoft has been talking with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest chip foundry, about reserving space to make more than 300,000 of its latest AI processors, according to a report from The Information on August 10, 2026. The chips would be delivered…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (542+ words) If your phone went quiet on Saturday and you are a Verizon customer, you were not imagining things. The network went down for thousands of people across the country, and it did not come back right away. The trouble started…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (624+ words) Nvidia controlled the opening phase of the AI boom with the GPU, a chip designed for many jobs at once. AMD is wagering that the next phase will reward chips that are deliberately inflexible. Taalas makes chips for AI inference,…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (592+ words) An AI model tried to talk a real person into approving harmful code during a cyber test. The attempts failed, but the episode was still another example of a frontier AI system being tied to a cyber incident. The test…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (616+ words) Every big AI data center has a quiet traffic system. Optical transceivers turn data into light pulses and back into data, so information can zip between servers and across racks. They are small, but nothing moves without them. Chinese companies…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (499+ words) Anthropic is going beyond software. The company behind Claude is assembling an in-house group to design custom chips, according to a job posting and an official statement. A representative confirmed to Business Insider that Anthropic is forming a silicon team,…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (598+ words) China is the world's biggest maker of drones. Last year, DJI Technologies, headquartered in Shenzhen, accounted for roughly seven in ten commercial drones bought in the US. So when Beijing announced on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, that every drone shipment to the…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (528+ words) Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest product rollout of the year, and it is using a lottery to pick the behind-the-scenes team. US store employees can enter a drawing for roles at the September iPhone event, according to an…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (612+ words) The big names in AI are spending hundreds of billions on giant data centers that take years to build. A small company called Runware thinks the future might fit in a pod that you can ship anywhere. Most of the…...