CEO Asha Sharma Dispels Rumors Regarding Xbox Sale Amidst Its Latest Challenges Xbox's CEO Asha Sharma has clarified what the real deal is amidst all the rumors about the possibility of selling Xbox. Player One · Oct 1
Apple considers Nvidia tech for return to server market: The Information Apple is developing an enterprise AI server for AI developers, businesses and governments that could come in versions featuring either two or four planned M8 Ultra chips, its highest-performance processors, the Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The Economic Times · Sep 16
GPT-6 is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it OpenAI's next big model, Astra, a.k.a. GPT-6, is done with training and ready to launch, but CEO Sam Altman's warning and recent reports on the model's inscrutable nature have us worried. TechRadar · Sep 3
Why are AI safety experts alarmed by reports OpenAI’s Astra model uses “recurrent depth”? OpenAI’s chief scientist says the company is committed to ensuring its models’ reasoning remains interpretable. Fortune · Sep 3
New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a rule to close a loophole around remote access to advanced AI compute, and it could be shared with trade groups as early as September. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 28
Nvidia Already Dominates The AI Chip Market. Now It Will Reportedly Own Hugging Face Too. The reported $12.9 billion price would be nearly three times Hugging Face's valuation in its 2023 funding round. International Business Times · Aug 27
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia's open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals Nvidia reportedly plans to buy Hugging Face at a price that exceeds its revenue by over 80 times, making it a major strategic investment in AI ecosystem. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 27
Elon Musk's Tortured AI Logic Stuns Critics After Arguing Uncontrollable Tech Is Totally Inevitable Elon Musk warns Cursor employees about the uncontrollable nature of AI while urging SpaceX to catch up with rivals, highlighting a paradox in the AI development race. International Business Times UK · Aug 26
Nvidia Could Double Down on Perplexity. AI Startup Seeks $30 Billion-Plus Valuation. The potential financing from Nvidia would represent a jump of more than 50% from the $20 billion valuation Perplexity finalized about a year ago as a result of the AI agent Perplexity Computer. International Business Times · Aug 24
Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap' Nvidia has rejected a report published by The Information that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 21
Nvidia denies report it is rolling out China AI chip by year-end "The reporting in The Information on Nvidia's LPU is incorrect. We have no LPU sales in the China market today, and no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap," an Nvidia spokesperson said. The Economic Times · Aug 21
Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4 [Updated] Nvidia is reportedly testing at least three Rubin Ultra configurations that pack as little as 192 GB of memory, as opposed to the 1 TB of HBM4E originally announced. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 10
Microsoft plans to unveil its new Maia 300 AI chip this fall: The Information Microsoft is planning to publicly unveil its new Maia 300 chip this fall, potentially as soon as next month, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the plans. The Economic Times · Aug 10
Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 7
International Business Times · Jul 28 China's DUV Chip Tool Push Shakes Markets. ASML's Dominance Faces Scrutiny, But Major Hurdles Remain China has reportedly begun producing homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, marking another step in its drive for semiconductor self-sufficiency as technology restrictions reshape the global chip industry.
Barchart · Jul 28 Nasdaq Futures Plunge as Chip Selloff Rages On, FOMC Meeting and Earnings on Tap September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are down -1.07% this morning as investors continued to ditch chipmakers amid concerns over the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 21 Google reportedly developing 'Frozen v2' chip with Gemini's architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than latest TPUs Google is developing a server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2," that would etch part of its Gemini model's architecture directly into the silicon.
Fortune · Jul 16 Exclusive: Marc Lore says Wonder is gearing up for an IPO after raising $650 million at a $9 billion valuation Wonder, which owns Grubhub and Blue Apron, is betting robotics, AI, and a nationwide expansion can reshape restaurant delivery before going public.
The Economic Times · Jul 15 Apple chasing AI chip company deals, The Information reports Apple is reportedly exploring acquisitions of chip companies to enhance its AI server processors. The tech giant faces performance challenges with its current in-house M2 Ultra chips. A planned future AI server chip, internally codenamed Baltra, has experienced delays. Apple previously struggled to run Google's Gemini models on its own…
International Business Times · Jul 3 ChatGPT's Guest Traffic Now Runs On Far Fewer GPUs After Internal Optimization. Yet The Bigger Question Is Whether Those Savings Extend To Paid And API Workloads. OpenAI inference cost reduction cut ChatGPT guest traffic from tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to just a couple hundred, using software optimization alone. Engineers achieved more than 50% savings with techniques analysts believe include KV cache reuse, quantization, and smarter GPU request batching, as OpenAI pursues a 52% gross…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 26 OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos
The Economic Times · Jun 26 OpenAI spices things up with Jalapeno chips: Why the Sam Altman-led AI startup is building its own processors OpenAI said it designed the chip from scratch in nine months. Broadcom handled silicon implementation, networking, and connectivity, while Celestica developed the physical computing hardware of the chip, including its circuit board, hardware frame, and system integration.
Tom’s Hardware · Jun 16 Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion Qualcomm is in talks to buy RISC-V-based AI accelerator and CPU developer Tenstorrent for $8 billion - $10 billion.
Player One · Jun 15 Microsoft Reportedly Considers Spinning Out Xbox to 'Make It Easier to Sell' Microsoft wants to overhaul its struggling Xbox, and one of the options the company is considering is making it its wholly owned subsidiary.
PC Gamer · Jun 12 Microsoft is looking to speed up development of future Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games A new report suggests Microsoft may also be giving thought to spinning off its Xbox division or selling it entirely.