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43 stories for“AI hardware”
The IMF and UNCTAD describe a widening split: economies tied to chips and AI infrastructure are gaining momentum while many energy importers absorb the war shock.
Aug 2, 2026
Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.
Oct 12, 2026
No company has ever been worth this much. Nvidia's climb past a four trillion dollar valuation shows how completely AI now drives the stock market.
Jul 14, 2025
OpenShell software and the Sentry hardware monitor, backed by more than 100 companies including Anthropic, Microsoft and SpaceX, pair a software boundary with an independent chip-level watchdog after a run of AI agents breaking out of their sandboxes.
Sep 29, 2026
WSTS is due to publish its second-quarter forecast update on August 3 after raising the 2026 semiconductor outlook. AI demand is strong, but concentration is the central risk.
Aug 2, 2026
PickNik's open-source MoveIt framework will stay free and hardware-agnostic even as it moves closer to Qualcomm's Dragonwing chips, with the software also headed to low-cost Arduino boards to widen access to robotics development.
Sep 27, 2026
Not your keys, not your coins is a slogan with real consequences on both sides. Self-custody removes counterparty risk and replaces it with your own operational discipline, which is not obviously the better trade.
Aug 10, 2026
Microsoft's new AMD systems and Google's surging cloud backlog show why AI infrastructure is moving beyond a one-chip, one-workload model.
Jul 31, 2026
The company that sells the hardware now owns the repository: three million models, half a million datasets, eighteen million developers. Jensen Huang promises it stays open and that Nvidia compute will not be required. What changes and what to watch.
Sep 8, 2026
Two rival clouds are making PyTorch code run on their own chips with minimal edits. Both launched at the PyTorch Conference, and both come with caveats worth reading.
Oct 21, 2026
Qwen has overtaken Meta and Google on cumulative downloads. In open weights, the number that decides the winner is not benchmark performance, it is how many things get built on top.
Aug 17, 2026
Training an agent to operate an operating system means running an operating system, watching the screen, taking an action and being scored, millions of times over. That work wants breadth across many machines rather than the largest possible GPU.
Sep 1, 2026
A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.
Jan 29, 2025
At the Open Compute Project summit in San Jose, Nvidia contributed rack and tray blueprints, new liquid-cooling specs and open software, while Meta and Cisco signed on to new networking.
Oct 13, 2026
Moonshot AI published the weights of a 2.8 trillion parameter model at no cost. The barrier that decides who can actually run it sits in a fab, not a licence agreement.
Aug 3, 2026
AI eyewear is becoming more capable and less conspicuous, but a celebrity revolt and fresh privacy fixes show that bystanders still get a vote on adoption.
Jul 22, 2026
A new frontier red team paper says open-weight models small enough to run on cheap gadgets may be months from spreading between them without a data centre, and lists what defenders can do now.
Oct 13, 2026
Surprise and Shine begins at 10am Pacific on Wednesday at Apple Park, a week after Tim Cook handed over. What is confirmed, which is almost nothing, and what is expected: a foldable iPhone above two thousand dollars, two Pro models and two watches.
Sep 8, 2026
Bloomberg reports that customers have been warned of rises above fifteen per cent on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping early next year. The cause is memory, and three companies control the supply of it.
Aug 25, 2026
The first orbital data centre nodes launched in January and multiple operators ran production workloads by February. The physics is genuinely favourable. The economics depend entirely on launch costs.
Aug 15, 2026
The RISC-V chip designer led by Jim Keller more than doubled its 2024 valuation and chose to stay independent, betting on servers that run open-weight models.
Oct 21, 2026
Reflection AI released Beam under Apache 2.0 while Meta shipped Muse Spark Open under a tighter licence, giving developers two Western rivals to China's open models with different trade-offs.
Oct 18, 2026
Homeland Security has used a supply-chain security law for the first time against an AI company, barring civilian agencies from buying or running DeepSeek and anything built on it.
Oct 22, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix both lost more than 11% in Seoul after Wall Street's worst day since July, and analysts and the IMF warned that Asia is heavily exposed to the AI boom.
Oct 15, 2026
The Vanguard and NXP joint venture inaugurated its first 300mm plant in Tampines on Monday, built in 22 months and aimed at power management, analog and interposer chips rather than leading-edge processors.
Sep 28, 2026
Goods and services trade added about $2 trillion in the first half of 2026. Much of the rise reflects higher prices, leaving a more uneven volume story underneath.
Aug 2, 2026
Texas land-management work shows how drones and spatial data are shifting from spectacular aerial tools to routine systems for monitoring soil, water and vegetation.
Jul 24, 2026
Meta priced $25 billion of stock at $625 on Tuesday as part of a plan to raise about $98 billion, with two of its biggest chip suppliers indicating they will buy up to $4 billion between them.
Oct 28, 2026
At its San Francisco event, Microsoft and Nvidia priced their RTX Spark flagship, promised local AI models and agent containment in Windows, and lined up four rival laptops for the same Friday.
Oct 7, 2026
At GTC Berlin the chipmaker named Ibiden, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Unimicron, Amkor, KYEC and SPIL, with prepaid reservations and a plan to raise substrate capacity 2.5 times.
Oct 23, 2026
The group wants open standards for testing quantum-resistance claims, while critics note that most founders run altcoin projects and that no machine can yet break bitcoin's cryptography.
Oct 18, 2026
Preliminary operating profit nearly nine times last year's could not lift Seoul's chip stocks, with US yields at 24-year highs and foreign investors selling Samsung for an eighth session.
Oct 8, 2026
More than 270 organisations signed a letter framing open model release as a competitiveness issue. Others want the same releases regulated. Both sides are right, because they are answering different questions.
Aug 7, 2026
The largest equity round ever by a European technology company values the Paris lab at 21 billion euros, up from 11.7 billion last September. Samsung leads, the EU's Scaleup fund and PSG co-lead, and the money goes into a gigawatt of European compute by 2030.
Sep 12, 2026
Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as one of the most exciting and transformative technologies of the digital era. By immersing users in virtual worlds, VR offers a unique and immersive digital experience that has the potential to revolutionize various industries, from gaming and entertainment to education and healthcare. In this blog post, we will delve
May 29, 2023
Beijing's Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 as a free, open-weight model built for coding and agent tasks, and the global developer world noticed fast.
Jul 24, 2025
Six thousand eight hundred exhibitors, two hundred thousand visitors and four hundred government entities across five days in December. The interesting part is what has been bolted onto the side of it.
Aug 14, 2026
One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.
Aug 15, 2026
The dive industry's annual trade show runs 3 to 6 November at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, with more than 500 exhibitors, Huish Outdoors back on the floor and launches already queued.
Nov 3, 2026
Tanks, troop carriers, anti-aircraft guns and a helicopter sit in ordered rows off Aqaba. It is the world's first underwater military museum, and the reasoning behind it is economic.
Aug 6, 2026
Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.
Aug 14, 2026
A team in Ottawa and Erlangen put a window sized lens in the sun, funnelled the light down a glass cone into a fibre the width of a hair, and got entangled photons at ninety four per cent fidelity. The Sun is not supposed to be able to do this.
Aug 25, 2026
Prices rose 0.4 per cent in August and 3.4 per cent over the year. Petrol is up 27 per cent, airfares 23. Core came in a tenth hotter than forecast, and futures moved from a coin toss to nine in ten for a quarter-point rise on 16 September. Stocks rose anyway.
Sep 12, 2026
