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Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as CPU Demand Surges
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Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027
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Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M (Lauren Goode/Wired)
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Apple unveils the 2nm A20 Pro, featuring a 6-core CPU with two "desktop class" super cores, a 7-core GPU up to 40% faster, and 32 Neural Engine cores in total (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
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Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs
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D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion
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Lightbits set to release KV cache engine to boost GPU performance
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Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs
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S. Korea, France sign MOU to strengthen cooperation in AI, semiconductors
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Arm's CEO says AI could cure cancer, but data centers are creating a bottleneck
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NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
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OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres
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TSMC backs ASML’s plan for bigger masks so its newest machines can print AI’s biggest chips
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Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers (Financial Times)
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GPUThor breaks the error correction Nvidia recommended against Rowhammer
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Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon Join PyTorch Foundation, Ant Group Takes Gold Seat
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Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone
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How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times)
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Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
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AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
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Nanya plans a $6B spending surge in 2027 to ride the AI memory boom
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AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation with 96 cores, 2 MI350P
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Crusoe Signs Roughly $13 Billion AI Cloud Deal With Jane Street
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G42 gave up Huawei, then let Washington watch its data centres. Majority US ownership is reportedly next.
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Google to speed up chip rollout to stay ahead in AI, technology chief says
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Presentation: From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training
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DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
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Naver founder, Brookfield chief meet for follow-up talks on AI factory
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Redwood: A Frontier AI Accelerator Designed from Scratch in 2 Weeks by AI
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Sam Altman says he doesn’t like smart glasses: 'I find it very uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light’
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The Industrial Revolution Of Intelligence: The Rise Of The AI Factory
Forbes
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Cango’s EcoHash Begins Commercial GPU Compute at Georgia AI Facility
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A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (SemiAnalysis)
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