DeepSeek releases DeepGEMM Ascend, using DeepJIT runtime kernel compilation to avoid CUDA builds at installation and a fused Mega MoE kernel that overlaps NVLink transfers with tensor-core computation.
StayLameBro releases the pre-release Backburner, which uses an iPhone 17 Pro Max over 10 Gb/s USB-C as memory for an Apple Silicon Mac, pushing local Qwen3.8-27B AI context beyond 64,000 tokens to an estimated 196,000-229,000 tokens.
Former Groq engineers Joshua Rubin and Benjamin Serebrin sue to challenge Nvidia’s $20 billion transaction, alleging shareholders are denied a required vote as $17 billion funds a technology license and $3 billion goes to restricted stock for employees joining Nvidia.
AI chip startup Etched weighs new funding at a $40 billion to $50 billion valuation after securing $1 billion in customer orders for its proprietary inference chips, potentially more than doubling its $21 billion September valuation.
Redis adds SSD-backed Redis Search to Redis Flex in preview for Redis Cloud Pro, letting customers place large indexes on SSD and set RAM usage from 10% to 50% as server DRAM prices roughly double.
Federal prosecutors arrest California businessman Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., for allegedly sending roughly $300 million in Nvidia AI-chip servers to China from 2023 to 2024 without required U.S. export licenses.
Amazon launches thinner, lighter Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft e-readers without AI, adding edge-to-edge displays and book-opening speeds up to 30% faster.
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform to quarantine AI agents that breach their boundaries within milliseconds, using OpenShell on its Vera AI CPU and a separate Sentry chip to monitor and enforce access limits.
China is considering approving Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chip imports for Alibaba and ByteDance, with ByteDance prepared to order 1 million units—potentially reopening millions of sales previously restricted by Beijing.
NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing OpenShell with the Sentry reference design on BlueField-4 DPUs to independently monitor and quarantine AI agents within milliseconds, while Salesforce brings approval and audit controls into Slack.