Blackstone and Google are launching a $5 billion AI computing joint venture powered by Google's Tensor Processing Units, with 500 MW of U.S.-based data center capacity expected online by 2027 and Google veteran Benjamin Treynor Sloss named as CEO.
NVIDIA is hand-delivering its first custom CPU, Vera, to top AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and 50% faster per-core performance designed for agentic AI workloads, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set to deploy hundreds of thousands of units at hyperscale starting in 2026.
A new open-source CLI tool called 'whichllm' instantly scans your hardware and recommends the best local AI models you can actually run, ranked by real benchmark data from top leaderboards with a single command.
Unsloth Studio launches in beta, enabling users to train over 500 open-source AI models locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS up to 2x faster while using 70% less VRAM, with features including reinforcement learning, multi-GPU support, and API inference compatibility with tools like Claude Code.
A new 1B parameter AI model called HRM-Text is making foundation model pretraining accessible to nearly anyone, requiring up to 900x less data and 600x less compute than traditional methods, bringing full pretraining costs down to roughly $1000 using a hierarchical recurrent architecture with strong benchmark performance across GSM8k, MATH, and MMLU.
NVlabs launches SANA, a groundbreaking open-source AI framework capable of generating stunning 4K images and video up to 100 times faster than competitors like Flux-12B, with multiple model variants, flexible deployment options including low-VRAM laptop support, and a fully open-sourced codebase under the Apache 2.0 license.
Google unveils Googlebook as a premium Gemini-powered laptop line that blends Android and ChromeOS, runs Android apps natively, and sits above affordable Chromebooks, though its shake-to-open Magic Pointer AI menu draws accessibility and accidental-trigger concerns.
Nvidia is partnering with Ineffable Intelligence, the $1.1 billion-backed AI startup founded by DeepMind reinforcement learning pioneer David Silver, to co-develop AI systems that learn through trial and error using Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips — pushing beyond conventional AI trained on human data toward systems that continuously discover new knowledge from experience.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems explodes 68% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $311.07 after raising $5.55 billion in the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 listing, pushing its market cap to roughly $95 billion as it aggressively challenges Nvidia with new deals from AWS and OpenAI.
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.