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Colibrì Runs 744B- to 2.8T-Parameter MoE Models on 25 GB Machines by Streaming Experts From Disk

Sep 13, 2026

GitHub

Colibrì now runs MoE models as large as Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion parameters on machines with just 25 GB of memory by streaming routed experts from disk, though cold GLM-5.2 inference falls to 0.05–0.1 tokens per second.

Foundation Models Hardware

OmniVoice Generates 24 kHz Speech in 600-Plus Languages From 3-Second Voice Samples

Sep 11, 2026

GitHub

OmniVoice now generates 24 kHz speech across 600-plus languages from 3–10-second voice samples, though cross-lingual clones retain the accent of the reference speaker’s language.

Audio & Voice Foundation Models Hardware

Mach adds $600 million after beating eight buyers for Exquadrum

Sep 11, 2026

TechCrunch

Mach Industries raises a $600 million Series C extension after paying $50 million in cash and equity for Exquadrum, outbidding at least eight suitors and expanding into solid rocket motors through its new Mach Energetics unit.

Defense & Warfare Funding Business Hardware

Apple Says S11 Secure Enclave Deletes Live Rewind Audio Immediately

Sep 11, 2026

The Deep View

Apple says its upcoming Live Rewind feature captures the previous 15 seconds after a Digital Crown double-press, then uses the S11 chip’s Secure Enclave to process and immediately delete the audio, while Siri Recap offers toggleable high-level conversation summaries without transcripts, speaker labels, or timestamps.

AR/VR & Wearables Privacy Hardware

Apple Embeds AI Across Entire Product Lineup, Unveils New Chips and Privacy-Focused Audio Intelligence Features

Sep 10, 2026

The Deep View

Apple embeds AI across its entire product lineup, unveiling the S11 and A20 Pro chips alongside privacy-focused Audio Intelligence features like Siri Recap and Live Rewind, which deliver conversation summaries and on-demand transcripts without recording audio.

Consumer Products Hardware Privacy Audio & Voice

Qualcomm and Amazon Strike $4 Billion AI Chip Deal, Targeting Nvidia's Data Center Dominance

Sep 09, 2026

CNBC

Qualcomm and Amazon ink a landmark $4 billion AI chip deal, with AWS gaining warrants to purchase 25 million Qualcomm shares as part of a multi-generational partnership targeting Nvidia's dominance in the data center market, potentially unlocking up to $60 billion in chip purchases.

Hardware Funding Data Centers Cloud Computing

Humanoid Robots Box, Dance, and Play Soccer at IFA 2026 as AI Closes Gap Between Sci-Fi and Reality

Sep 09, 2026

The Deep View

Humanoid robots are boxing, dancing, and playing soccer at IFA 2026, with models now available for purchase up to $99,999 as AI rapidly closes the gap between science fiction and reality.

Robotics Hardware Consumer Products

Ray Kurzweil Joins Neurotech Startup Developing Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface Via Nasal Spray

Sep 08, 2026

Fortune

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil joins neurotech startup Subsense as an advisor, backing its groundbreaking noninvasive brain-computer interface that delivers charged nanoparticles to the brain via nasal spray, controlled by a magnetic headset — positioning the $27M-funded company as a consumer-friendly alternative to Elon Musk's Neuralink.

Hardware Funding Healthcare

Extropic's Z1T Chip Delivers 100x Energy Efficiency Over GPUs With New Sparse Transformer Architecture

Sep 07, 2026

Extropic

Extropic's new Z1T chip delivers over 100x energy efficiency gains compared to Nvidia's H100 GPU by using sparse, in-memory computing and a disaggregated inference pipeline, consuming just 294.52 nJ per token versus 40.9 µJ on the H100, while also achieving faster per-token latency — with open-source weights and training recipes …

Hardware Foundation Models Open Source

Nvidia CEO Declares 'AGI Has Arrived' After OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, But Experts Push Back

Sep 07, 2026

CNBCTV18

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang boldly declares 'AGI has arrived' following OpenAI's launch of GPT-6 Astra, a powerful model capable of advanced software engineering, cybersecurity, and scientific work — but AI researcher Gary Marcus pushes back, arguing the claim lacks a clear definition or supporting evidence.

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