Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads — Sambanova claims SN50 chip is three times more efficient than Nvidia B200

SambaNova says its SN50 AI accelerator platform is about five times faster and three times more efficient than Nvidia’s B200. In addition, the company signs a pact with Intel to offer Xeon-based AI systems to enterprises a…

AI boosted US economy by ‘basically zero’ in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist — ‘We think there’s been a lot of misreporting of the impact that AI investment had on GDP growth’

The U.S. economy isn’t being propped up by AI investment, despite the common narrative. According to Goldman Sachs, despite hundreds of billions in investment announcements, AI has done little to uplift American financial …

Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M

A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lea…

New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools

New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams.

The New Era of Shopping raises $1.4M Pre-Seed to help brands win in the age of agentic commerce

The New Era of Shopping today announced the close of a $1.4 million Pre-Seed round to help traditional brands become discoverable, trusted, and purchasable inside AI assistants and agent-driven shoppi…

Google’s new plan to check if your AI is actually ethical

Google DeepMind researchers propose a new way to test whether AI chatbots actually understand morality or just mimic it, moving beyond current surface-level evaluations.
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OpenAI couldn’t finance its data centers, so it took control of the hardware instead — company’s chip design aspirations lag behind Google and Amazon

OpenAI spent much of 2025 trying to build its own AI data centers, only to find that it couldn’t secure financing on competitive terms.
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