OpenAI and major tech giants including Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, and Intel unveil MRC, a groundbreaking open networking protocol using 'packet spraying' to dramatically boost AI GPU cluster speed, reliability, and energy efficiency — already live in major supercomputing sites — as the industry races to combat a looming compute shortage.
Apple is in early talks with Intel and Samsung to manufacture its main processors on U.S. soil, signaling a major strategic shift away from its longtime reliance on Taiwan's TSMC.
California startup Span is partnering with Nvidia and PulteGroup to install silent, liquid-cooled AI computing nodes on residential homes, turning houses into mini data centers while rewarding homeowners with discounted electricity and internet bills.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems is targeting a massive $4 billion IPO with a $40 billion valuation, with formal marketing set to launch as early as Monday amid surging investor demand for its shares.
TALOS-V2 brings AI inference to FPGA hardware, running Karpathy's microGPT at a blazing 50,000 tokens per second on a DE1-SoC Cyclone V board using fixed-point arithmetic and SystemVerilog RTL, complete with real-time controls and token output on onboard displays.
OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent platform, rockets to 250,000 GitHub stars in just 60 days, overtaking React as GitHub's most-starred project while NVIDIA rushes to address security vulnerabilities by launching NemoClaw, a hardened reference implementation, as autonomous long-running agents drive a 1,000x surge in inference demand and reshape industries from …
Apple's Mac revenue surges 6% to $8.4 billion in Q2, beating Wall Street expectations as explosive demand for running local AI models on Mac mini and Mac Studio devices outpaces supply, with CEO Tim Cook warning shortages on AI-focused Mac models could persist for months.
Self-hosting large language models is a hardware-intensive, patience-demanding endeavor requiring at least 16GB of VRAM for even modest models, with operational friction from RAG pipelines, prompt template mismatches, and latency issues making it far from a seamless API replacement.
Google is now selling its custom AI chips, Tensor Processing Units, directly to customers for use in their own data centers, marking a major strategic shift that intensifies competition with Nvidia while Amazon simultaneously challenges the chip giant with its own lineup generating over $20 billion in annual revenue.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a powerful open multimodal AI model unifying vision, speech, and language in one system, topping six leaderboards and delivering up to 9x faster throughput than competing models, now available on Hugging Face and OpenRouter.