A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat th…

CXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers
CXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers

Zhu Yiming got about $10bn richer on Monday. He has promised to give roughly $5.6bn of it away, and not to charity. The chairman of CXMT saw his fortune climb nearly 300% to $13.9bn when the memory chipmaker closed its Shanghai debut up 466%, according…

Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield
Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield

The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after delays and engine replacements pushed the attempt back. It…

CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company
CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company

China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported. That values the Hefei firm at 3.28 …

EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than gas car drivers in nearly every category, JD Power finds
EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than gas car drivers in nearly every category, JD Power finds

Electric vehicle owners are happier with their cars than drivers of combustion vehicles in nearly every category measured, according to JD Power’s 2026 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout study released this week. The survey of 78,514 owners …

New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling
New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling

Modern electric vehicles retain an average of 97 percent of their original range after three years and 95 percent after five years, according to a new analysis by EV data company Recurrent. For a 2026 model with a rated range of 325 miles, that means r…

Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility fro…

Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030
Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030

Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion spanning memory chips, foundry manufacturing and advanced packaging for artificial intelligence semiconductors. The deal, announced on Friday at an …

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable …

Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent
Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent

Intel posted second-quarter 2026 revenue of more than $16 billion, a 25 percent jump from a year earlier and the company’s fastest growth since late 2011. Adjusted earnings per share came in at 42 cents, double the 21-cent consensus estimate on Wall St…