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Cerebras Surges 90% on Trading Debut, Opens at $350 in Biggest IPO of the Year With $75 Billion Valuation

May 15, 2026

NBC News

AI chipmaker Cerebras explodes 90% on its Nasdaq trading debut, opening at $350 after pricing at $185, claiming the biggest IPO of the year with a $75 billion valuation amid overwhelming investor demand exceeding 20 times available shares as it challenges Nvidia's dominance.

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AMD Hits Record 46.2% Server CPU Revenue Share in Q1 2026, Challenging Intel's Dominance Across Markets

May 14, 2026

Tom's Hardware

AMD shatters records in Q1 2026, seizing 46.2% of x86 server CPU revenue and 38.1% of overall x86 CPU revenue, signaling a dramatic power shift as Intel's once-unshakeable dominance continues to erode across server and client markets.

Hardware Business

NV Energy Cuts Power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe Residents by 2027 as Data Center Demand Surges

May 14, 2026

Ars Technica

NV Energy is cutting power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents by 2027, driven by surging data center demand in Nevada, leaving Liberty Utilities scrambling for a new energy source amid a growing national backlash against AI infrastructure.

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RuView Turns WiFi Signals Into Real-Time Human Detection System Without Cameras or Cloud

May 14, 2026

GitHub

RuView is turning ordinary WiFi signals into a powerful real-time human detection system, tracking presence, breathing, heart rate, and room layout — no cameras, wearables, or cloud required — running on $9 hardware with sub-10ms edge processing and AI that adapts to new environments in under 30 seconds.

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NVIDIA Partners With AlphaGo Architect's AI Lab to Build Next-Gen Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

May 14, 2026

NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA is partnering with AlphaGo architect David Silver's AI lab, Ineffable Intelligence, to co-design next-generation reinforcement learning infrastructure on cutting-edge Grace Blackwell and upcoming Vera Rubin hardware, aiming to build AI agents capable of continuously learning from experience and driving breakthroughs across all fields of knowledge.

Hardware Agents Research

Modal Slashes GPU Cold Start Times From 2,000 to 50 Seconds With Serverless Inference Breakthrough

May 13, 2026

Modal

Modal slashes GPU cold start times from over 2,000 seconds to just 50 seconds using a breakthrough combination of cloud-buffered idle GPUs, lazy-loading filesystems, CPU memory snapshotting, and CUDA checkpoint/restore, delivering 4-10x faster serverless inference for LLM workloads across hundreds of organizations.

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AI Boom Hits Hardware Wall as Apple Opens Ecosystem, DeepSeek Surges to $45B

May 12, 2026

The AI Report

AI's explosive growth faces a critical hardware bottleneck lasting years, even as Apple shatters its AI exclusivity by letting 1.2 billion iPhone users choose rival models like Gemini and Claude, DeepSeek rockets to a $45 billion valuation, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun launches a $1 billion bet against large language …

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Elon Musk Merges xAI Into SpaceX, Creating New SpaceXAI Division to Oversee X and Grok

May 12, 2026

Not a Tesla App

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX, dissolving it as an independent company and creating a new internal division called SpaceXAI to oversee X and Grok, deeply integrating AI across SpaceX's operations and connecting it to the company's $119 billion TERAFAB semiconductor fab and upcoming Starship V3.

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Apple Reveals Major Siri Overhaul Powered by Google Gemini, Targeting Billions of Non-AI Users

May 12, 2026

The Deep View

Apple is set to unveil a massive Siri overhaul at WWDC on June 8, powered by Google Gemini, transforming Siri into a ChatGPT rival while targeting the 84% of the global population not yet using AI.

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SakanaAI Launches Open-Source Sparse LLM Kernels Promising Faster Inference and Lower Memory on H100 GPUs

May 11, 2026

GitHub

SakanaAI releases 'sparser-faster-llms,' an open-source repository of custom CUDA kernels for H100 GPUs that use sparsity to dramatically speed up LLM inference and cut memory usage, with pretrained models from 0.5B to 2B parameters now available on Hugging Face Hub.

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