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Shure launches IntelliMix Bar Pro with Microsoft Teams certification
Shure has released the IntelliMix Bar Pro, an all‑in‑one collaboration bar and touch panel for medium and large meeting rooms that is certified for Microsoft Teams. The device combines Shure’s IntelliMix View AI video…
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ASML’s EUV monopoly powers Nvidia’s AI chip demand
ASML, a Dutch company based in Veldhoven, dominates the market for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, which are essential for manufacturing advanced AI chips like those made by Nvidia. The company holds an…
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Lenovo launches AI Express pre-configured servers with Nvidia GPUs
Lenovo introduced Lenovo AI Express, an enterprise infrastructure program built with Nvidia hardware to speed up on-premises AI deployments. The systems offer pre-validated hardware configurations designed to reduce…
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ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B on $300M employee tender
ElevenLabs, the voice AI startup, announced a $22 billion valuation on Monday, double its $11 billion mark from February’s $500 million funding round. The company allowed employees to sell vested equity through a $300…
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Meta and OpenAI plan AI Tamagotchi-style devices by 2027
Meta and OpenAI are preparing to launch AI-powered physical devices resembling Tamagotchis, aiming to bridge the gap between software agents and hardware. Meta’s Muse Charm, a pendant-like device featuring its Muse…
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OpenAI’s dots run on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs, Geekbench data shows
A leaked Geekbench 7 result suggests OpenAI’s autonomous agents, called dots, run on a single nine-core slice of an AMD EPYC 9V74 processor with 9.73GB of memory. The pre-launch benchmark posted on X by INIYSA recorded…
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CScale raises $145M Series C for optical interconnects in AI data centers
CScale, a Palo Alto-based startup, has secured $145 million in Series C funding to develop optical interconnect solutions for gigawatt-scale AI data centers. The round, led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity…
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Cerebras CEO Feldman debates AI scaling limits at Disrupt 2026
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman will discuss AI hardware constraints at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Feldman, co-founder of the wafer-scale computing specialist, argues conventional chip architectures cannot keep pace…
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Artificial Analysis releases open-source tool to benchmark local AI agents on laptops and workstations
Artificial Analysis has launched AA-AgentPerf-Local, an open-source benchmarking tool designed to measure how fast AI agents perform on laptops and workstations. The tool replays real agent trajectories—eight recorded…
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Ollama cheat sheet guides local AI model management
Ollama simplifies running language models locally by pulling model weights and hosting an HTTP server on port 11434. It mimics OpenAI’s API, letting users deploy models on their own hardware without complex setup. The…
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OpenAI VP details Jalapeño ASIC’s AI-assisted design and efficiency focus
OpenAI’s VP of Hardware, Richard Ho, discussed the company’s custom Jalapeño inference ASIC in an interview with Tom’s Hardware, emphasizing efficiency and AI-driven design. The chip, revealed at Hot Chips 2026, cuts…
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AMD says PerfOpt in Linux 7.4 may boost AI/LLM performance on Radeon iGPUs by up to 23%
AMD reports that its new PerfOpt feature in Linux 7.4 could improve AI and LLM inference performance on Radeon integrated graphics by as much as 18% to 23%, based on internal testing. The feature, part of AMD's I/O…
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Netlist sues for US import ban on Micron chips in Google, Nvidia AI hardware
Netlist filed a new complaint on Tuesday with the U.S. International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of Micron’s DRAM chips and AI hardware from Google, Nvidia, and Broadcom. The company alleges Micron’s…
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Google to launch first Project Suncatcher satellite with TPUs on SpaceX Transporter-18 in October
Google is preparing to launch its first Project Suncatcher prototype satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-18 rideshare mission scheduled for October 1, 2026. The satellite, developed with Planet, carries…
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MachGen AI cuts video generation time by 6x with diffusion-focused infrastructure
MachGen AI, co-founded by Kismat Singh and Manoj Krishnan, specializes in optimizing inference and fine-tuning stacks for diffusion models—unlike existing infrastructure built for large language models. Singh, who…
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Meta brings Muse agent to AI glasses, launches VR and audio models
Meta announced at Connect 2026 that it is integrating its personal AI agent, Muse, into its AI glasses. This update allows users to interact with Muse via voice and have it act on visual inputs, such as identifying…
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Googlebook OS to arrive on select newer Chromebooks, details pending
Google announced that some newer Chromebooks will support an upgrade to Googlebook OS, its AI-enhanced successor to ChromeOS. The company did not specify which models qualify but said eligible devices will be announced…
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Meta invests C$13B in Alberta data center to boost AI infrastructure
Meta announced plans for a C$13 billion data center in Alberta, its first in Canada. The 1-gigawatt facility, later scalable to 1.8 gigawatts, will support its growing AI operations. Capital Power will supply 250…
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SiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at $1.45B valuation to compete with Nvidia’s CUDA hardware
SiMa.ai, a startup specializing in custom chips for physical AI devices, announced a $150 million Series C funding round led by Fidelity and Amplify, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funds will accelerate…
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Crusoe builds Google’s Texas AI data center campus with wind-powered cooling
The project, which broke ground in June 2025, employs over 5,500 skilled workers daily and aims to power advanced AI infrastructure using renewable energy sources. The campus connects directly to Serena’s Goodnight 1…
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GMKtec launches Evo-X5 Pro mini-PC with 192GB RAM for $7,099
GMKtec released the Evo-X5 Pro, an AI-focused mini-PC powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processor and 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory. The model with a 2TB SSD costs $6,799, while the 4TB version is priced at $7,099.…
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Marvell raises 2027 revenue outlook to $12B as Google deal expands custom silicon
Marvell Technology raised its fiscal 2027 revenue outlook to $12 billion and expects 50% growth in fiscal 2028, citing robust AI-related demand. The company’s stock surged 7.24% last week and 6.86% over the past month,…
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Tom’s Hardware offers free AI Chip Design Week access until October 2
Tom’s Hardware Premium is giving free access to its AI Chip Design Week coverage from September 28 to October 2. The week includes an interview with OpenAI’s hardware chief Richard Ho about the company’s AI-designed…
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Ggml-org merges Vulkan kernel fusion for Qwen4exp's SCALE‑sigmoid‑SCALE chain
A pull request (29520) was merged into the ggml‑org/llama.cpp repository on Sep 28 2026, adding a fused Vulkan kernel that combines the SCALE‑SIGMOID‑SCALE‑hcpost operations used by the Qwen4exp model. The change was…
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Submer Group launches Corenix modular data centers for AI operators
Submer Group introduced Corenix, a modular data center company targeting AI operators, neoclouds, and hyperscalers. The new venture, headquartered in Houston, focuses on factory-built, integrated data center modules…
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TerraFlow and DG Matrix deploy VRFB-SST combo to power US AI compute
TerraFlow Energy and DG Matrix announced a commercial agreement on September 28, 2026, to deploy the first integrated vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) and solid-state transformer (SST) system in the US. The setup…
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IonQ Superion 256 to power NVIDIA quantum research center
IonQ announced on September 23, 2026, that its Superion 256 quantum computer will be the first quantum processor installed at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC). The system will be directly linked to…
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Thoughtful Things launches Engram AI sampler on Kickstarter
Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Engram, a hardware sampler and groovebox designed to generate experimental audio. Unlike consumer AI music tools that aim for polished,…
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[For 780M] Vulkan inference 12.9% faster: MMVQ tuning for AMD 780M/Strix in llama.cpp, Q4_0 ROCmFP4 models arriving one after another
By setting load‑mode to auto, the build now skips memory‑mapped I/O on iGPUs, preventing the model from being loaded twice and halving usable memory. New ROCmFP4 quantized models for Strix/Halo are appearing on…
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Meta’s Louisiana data center spurs housing boom for 7,500 workers
Meta is building its largest AI data center in northeast Louisiana, near Holly Ridge, with a $50 billion, multi-year project. The construction phase will employ up to 7,500 workers at its peak, while operational roles…
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UK’s £26bn AI supercomputer faces mid-2030s launch delay over power grid limits
The UK’s £26bn AI supercomputer project in Loughton, Essex, will not open in 2027 as planned. Nscale, the startup building the facility, says power supply issues mean the grid cannot handle its 90MW demand until at…
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PicoJool raises $27.5M Series A to scale optical VCSEL links for AI data centers
PicoJool, a Palo Alto-based startup, secured $27.5 million in Series A funding to commercialize optical connectivity solutions for AI data centers. Socratic Partners led the round, with participation from Hudson River…
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Microsoft drops Copilot+ PC branding from 2026 Surface systems despite meeting hardware requirements
Microsoft has removed the Copilot+ PC branding from its 2026 Surface laptops and tablets, confirming the devices still meet the original hardware requirements including an NPU with at least 40 TOPS, 16GB of RAM, and…
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NextEra Energy secures $1.9B DOE loan to restart nuclear plant for AI power
NextEra Energy’s subsidiary, Energy Resources, is positioning itself to meet AI labs’ growing energy demands. The company added 3.6 GW to its backlog in the second quarter, bringing its total to 35 GW across wind,…
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Alibaba unveils new AI hardware at Apsara Conference
Alibaba showcased a range of AI‑powered devices at its 2026 Apsara Conference, all linked through the Qwen ecosystem. The centerpiece, Qwen Book, is an agentic computer that runs on Alibaba’s Qwen Desktop OS and can…
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Alibaba Cloud expands European cloud regions and announces Qwen AI roadmap
Alibaba Cloud is adding cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland, and the Netherlands while increasing capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France, and Hong Kong. By 2032, the company aims for a total global data center…
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Alibaba outlines Qwen 4.5, 5 and Zhenwu V900 AI chip for 2027
Alibaba detailed its AI roadmap at the Apsara Conference, focusing on its Qwen models, custom chips, and agent services. The company confirmed Qwen 4 is in training and plans Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5, with models scaling to…
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CaoCao partners with Qwen AI Glasses to launch hands-free ride-hailing service
CaoCao Inc. announced on September 22 at the 2026 Apsara Conference a partnership with Qwen AI Glasses to roll out an AI‑powered, hands‑free ride‑hailing service. Users will wear the glasses, state a destination, and…
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Meta announced the AI device Charm featuring its Muse agent at Connect 2026
Meta announced at its Connect 2026 event that it has integrated its viral AI agent Muse into a small hardware device called Charm, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said should ship in time for the holiday shopping season. The…
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Crusoe drops $1.25B deal for Boom’s Superpower turbines
The deal, announced in 2023, would have included 29 turbines—each rated at 42 megawatts—with deliveries starting in 2027. Crusoe, which raised $3.9 billion earlier this year, now says it will use a mix of wind, solar,…
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Nscale raises $3.36B in convertible financing ahead of US IPO
Nscale, a British neocloud company, closed a $3.36 billion convertible note financing round on Friday. The round includes $2.36 billion available immediately and an additional $1 billion from existing investor Nvidia,…
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SemiAnalysis reveals China’s 24GW datacenter capacity, surpassing EMEA
China’s datacenter capacity now exceeds 24 gigawatts, surpassing EMEA and the rest of Asia combined, according to SemiAnalysis’ new China Datacenter Model. The report tracks over 1,000 facilities across 60+ operators,…
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SpaceXAI to add 660,000 GPUs, nearing 1.44 million total
Elon Musk announced on X that SpaceXAI will bring 220,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs online by next week, with another 220,000 arriving in November and a final batch of 220,000 by late December, contingent on luck. These…
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Ricursive Intelligence aims to cut chip design cycle from years to weeks
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, is building AI that can design semiconductor chips and learn from each iteration. The startup says its system could shrink…
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Nvidia DLSS 5 raises RTX 5090 power draw to 647W
QuasarZone tested the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition while running Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with DLSS 5 enabled. The 16‑pin (12VHPWR) power connector reached 91.7 °C on one side and 83.4 °C on the other, exceeding the…
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Meta plans encrypted AI chats for smart glasses to protect user data
Meta announced plans to extend its Private Processing encryption technology to its smart glasses, aiming to secure AI-powered conversations. At Meta Connect 2026, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Pritam Shah (director of trust…
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Piotr Wilkin adds int8 coopmat1 matmul implementation for AMD RDNA3 and RDNA4
Piotr Wilkin committed a new int8 coopmat1 matmul implementation for AMD RDNA3 and RDNA4 in the llama.cpp repository. The change adds a quantized matmul shader that supports multiple quantization formats such as IQ4XS,…
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Logitech releases Yeti 2 mic with 3D tracking and AI denoising
Logitech has launched the Yeti 2, the long-awaited successor to the original Blue Yeti microphone released in 2009. The new device features a 3D proximity sensor that tracks audio and automatically adjusts gain,…
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WiCi One unveils wireless Wi-Fi 7 eGPU with built-in 4TB SSD for local AI
WiCi One has introduced a wireless external GPU that uses Wi-Fi 7 to connect to client machines, allowing the GPU to be shared across multiple devices. The device includes a built-in 4TB PCIe 5.0 SSD to store AI model…
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CyberPowerPC gets RTX 50‑series Founders Edition cards for Walmart pre‑built pcs
CyberPowerPC has secured Nvidia’s rare Founders Edition GPUs and is selling pre‑built gaming PCs containing them through Walmart’s retail platform. The units are part of Nvidia GeForce Week, running from September 21…
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Cisco signs over $10bn AI infrastructure deals amid competition from Nvidia
Cisco says it has signed AI‑infrastructure contracts worth more than $10bn this fiscal year with hyperscalers and emerging "neocloud" providers. President and chief product officer Jeetu Patel explained that the…
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Google adds 400‑frame Magic Capture to Pixel 11 camera
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 family at its Made by Google 2026 event, alongside the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag and updated Pixel Buds. The company says the new hardware delivers the biggest camera…
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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chipset for audio wearables
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, the second generation of its Snapdragon Sound Elite line, as a chipset aimed at audio wearables, or “hearables.” The company says the SoC can deliver up to 2 ×…
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Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip and plans 20-gigawatt data center expansion by 2032
Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 AI chip at its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, stating it delivers three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. The company also revealed plans to expand Alibaba…
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Microsoft shows Snapdragon X2 Surface laptops running AI workloads locally
Microsoft demonstrated Snapdragon X2-powered Surface laptops at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, showcasing local AI capabilities for creative workflows. Demos included haptic feedback in the touchpad and pen, Phone Link…
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Microsoft releases Snapdragon X2 Plus-powered Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch
Microsoft and Qualcomm have revealed the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with the Snapdragon X2 Plus chip, an upgrade from the 2024 Snapdragon X Plus models. The devices were shown at Qualcomm's…
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Qualcomm launches two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips built for on-device agentic AI
Qualcomm announced two flagship smartphone processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both built on a 2-nanometer process. The chips feature custom Oryon CPUs, rearchitected…
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Arduino opens pre‑orders for ventuno Q edge AI board for robotics
Arduino S.r.l., now a Qualcomm subsidiary, announced pre‑orders for the VENTUNO Q board, its first product aimed specifically at robotics. The board combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ‑8275 processor that delivers up to…
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Anthropic appears to block Huawei's 950DT and Amazon's Tranium3 chips with Opus 5.5
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 model includes classifiers that can cause the system to fall back to Opus 5. According to the model’s support document, these classifiers limit frontier‑LLM kernel development on a small set…
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NVIDIA validation engineer Sakeena Fiza describes hardware testing for AI data centers
Sakeena Fiza is a validation engineer in NVIDIA’s data‑center systems engineering lab. She says her job is to look for every way a new system could fail, treating each issue like a mystery to solve. Her work starts the…
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