#AI hardware
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NVIDIA's New Vera Rubin Chip Does 30 Times More AI Work Per Watt Than Its Predecessor
Fresh benchmark data puts NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 far ahead on energy efficiency for the complex, multi-step AI tasks that companies are building into their products at speed.

Nvidia Just Posted $96 Billion in a Single Quarter. It Thinks $108 Billion Is Next.
The chip maker's data center sales more than doubled in a year, driven by relentless demand for AI hardware. Consumer GPU buyers are feeling the squeeze.

Nvidia's $20 Billion Groq Bet Goes Live: What It Means for AI Speed
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX racks are now in full production and will be online later this year, promising AI responses more than four times faster than OpenAI's current top speed.

OpenAI Built Its Own AI Chip. Here Is What That Means for Your Wallet and Your Wait Times.
OpenAI's custom silicon, called Jalapeño, promises faster responses and lower energy bills. Small volumes ship before the end of 2025, with a bigger push in 2027.

AI Companion Robots Are Moving In. Who Are They Actually For?
A new generation of home robots is designed less to fetch your shopping list and more to notice when you've gone quiet. Here's what that means for lonely adults, kids whose parents work away, and anyone living alone.

Nvidia Manager and Supermicro Staff Indicted in Taiwan Over AI Server Smuggling to China
Nine people face charges of document forgery and breach of trust after allegedly helping hide billions of dollars' worth of restricted AI hardware shipped to China.

Liquid AI Squeezes Its Small Models onto Phones and Raspberry Pis Without Losing Much Quality
A new training trick called Quantization-Aware Distillation lets Liquid AI's compact language models run on cheap hardware while keeping 97% of their full-precision accuracy.

Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to commercialize a cable technology that moves data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines, giving AI campuses more room to grow without paying a speed penalty.

An AI chip startup just tripled its valuation in six months. Here's who's paying and why.
Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by a Wall Street trading giant that actually tested the hardware first. The numbers are striking. The speed of the rise is even more so.

Apple's AirPods May Soon Have Cameras Built In. Here's What That Means for You.
A video buried inside Apple's latest software update shows AirPods identifying a book cover using AI. If the leak is real, your earbuds could soon act as a second pair of eyes.

French startup Kog says your company's existing GPUs can run AI ten times faster. Here's how.
Kog claims software alone can dramatically speed up AI inference on the chips businesses already own. The September demo will be the real test.

Nvidia's $500 Billion Data Center Plan Is Really About Keeping Old Chips Valuable
Six of Wall Street's biggest names have pledged up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. The headline number is striking. The real story is how Nvidia is betting its own money that its chips hold their worth over time.

This AI Ring Wants to Catch Your Best Ideas Before You Forget Them
A startup called Sandbar is betting a voice-enabled smart ring can do what AI lapel pins and pendants never quite managed. Here is what it actually does, and why that matters for anyone who has ever lost a great thought in the shower.

Humanoid robots could become a $370 billion market by 2040. Here is what is slowing them down
McKinsey puts the general-purpose robotics market on track for massive growth, but the software tools used to design these machines are still stuck in the past.

Trump's New 15% Tariff Targets a Key Ingredient in Chips and Solar Panels
Polysilicon, the material China dominates making, will cost importers more from December. Here's what that means for AI hardware and your energy bill.