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AI Business

TSMC Pulls In $16 Billion for September as AI Chip Demand Keeps Climbing

The world's largest contract chipmaker recorded a 54.6% year-on-year sales rise for September, extending a run of strong monthly figures driven by demand for the chips that power artificial intelligence.

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AI Business

Sam Altman Called Cerebras a 'Close Partner' and Stopped a 20% Slide

Four sentences from OpenAI's CEO lifted Cerebras stock 6.3% in premarket trading. The margin numbers still need to improve before the rally means anything.

3 min read
A small glossy keychain device resting on a wooden table, its tiny rounded screen glowing softly with a simple animated face icon, surrounded by everyday object
Everyday AI

Meta's Muse Charm Is Basically a Tamagotchi for Your AI Agent

A keychain-sized gadget with a tiny screen and a talking avatar could be the cheapest bet Meta has ever made on AI hardware, and it might actually work.

3 min read
An urban morning commute scene with a four-legged robotic unit moving along a sidewalk, pedestrians stopping to observe, city buildings and traffic in backgroun
Robotics

I walked to work with a $4,000 robot dog. Here is what happened.

A journalist's morning commute with a quadruped robot drew crowds, barking dogs, and surveillance fears. What does everyday life with a consumer robot actually feel like?

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AI Business

OpenAI Pays Over $300 Million for Camera AI Startup Glass Imaging

Two former Apple engineers whose software sharpens smartphone photos at the moment of capture, not after, are now part of OpenAI.

3 min read
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AI Business

SK Hynix and Intel Are Talking About Making Memory Chips in the US

The South Korean chip giant is exploring a deal to manufacture RAM inside American borders for the first time, possibly by leasing space inside Intel's Ohio factory.

3 min read
A cutting-edge data center with advanced cooling systems prominently featured—liquid cooling pipes, thermal management equipment, and high-powered AI chips gene
AI Business

Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.

Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.

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A sleek server room with rows of modern computing hardware and cooling systems, with a Mac Mini positioned prominently in the foreground alongside enterprise-gr
AI Business

Apple Wants Back in the Server Room, and Nvidia Might Help It Get There

After 15 years out of the server market, Apple could return with powerful chips and an unlikely partner, and the Mac Mini shortage is partly why.

3 min read
Inside a state-of-the-art semiconductor fabrication plant, an enormous lithography machine with complex optical systems looms over a clean-room floor marked wit
AI Business

Samsung and TSMC sign up for ASML's $400 million chipmaking machine as AI demand grows

The world's two biggest chipmakers have committed to using ASML's most advanced chip-printing tool, a sign that demand for the complex chips powering AI is only heading one way.

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Inside a semiconductor manufacturing facility, technicians working with chip production equipment designed to maximize memory capacity, with industrial fabricat
AI Business

A Seven-Year-Old Chip Startup Just Raised $468 Million to Fix the AI Memory Shortage

Kepler Computing says it can squeeze more memory into existing chip factories, skipping the $20-to-$40 billion cost of building new ones. What that means for the AI bottleneck holding back everything from data centres to your favourite apps.

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A sleek laptop and compact mini PC sit side by side on a minimalist desk, their screens glowing with neural network visualizations and AI processing indicators,
Everyday AI

Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCs

New machines from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and others promise enough power to run AI entirely on your own hardware, no internet connection required. Prices will be steep.

4 min read
A manufacturing floor filled with industrial robotic arms of different generations—traditional mechanical units alongside newer AI-integrated systems—all workin
Robotics

Big Tech Is Buying Up Robot Startups. Here's What That Means for the Industry

Three major acquisitions in five months have reshaped who controls the future of robotics. A controller maker that bridges traditional and AI-driven robots explains what comes next.

3 min read
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AI Business

Nvidia's real AI edge is not the chip. It's everything around it.

After a year of flat share prices and growing GPU competition, Nvidia's latest earnings have shifted how investors see the company. The advantage was never just about making the best processor.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Meta patches its Ray-Ban smart glasses to stop secret recordings after public backlash

A software update will cut off the camera if someone covers the recording light mid-shoot, closing a loophole that let wearers film strangers without any visible warning.

3 min read
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Robotics

Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself

The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.

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