Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software purchasing habits, where success is judged by login…
The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer …
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…
Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …
For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developer…
People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A t…
Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind’s c…
ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages before trial production. CXMT could begin mass prod…
The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of a rack of Nvi…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Management, Point72, and Snowpoint Ventures also parti…