Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Scienc…

Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund
Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund

AI chip startup Etched has raised $800 million and revealed that its backers include trading firm Jane Street and VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm with a strategic partnership with TSMC. The company, which designs chips specifically for running AI …

Taiwan raids Super Micro’s office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens
Taiwan raids Super Micro’s office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens

Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office raided Super Micro Computer’s local office on Monday, widening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China through the company’s servers. The raid also targeted the residences of six…

Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they’ve found a winner with Micron.

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, an…

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds

Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and…

Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent
Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent

Micron Technology posted fiscal third-quarter revenue of nearly $42bn, quadrupling from just over $9bn a year earlier and beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin. The results, reported on Tuesday, confirm that the company riding the AI memory bo…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders on Wednesday that if a commercial opportunity conflicts with US national security, the company would prioritise American interests. “National security comes first,” Huang said in a session shortly after the com…

xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly
xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly

xLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350m to build an xLight EUV light source that could loosen ASML’s grip on chipmaking. Days earlier, a Dutch rival took aim at Nvidia. Deep-tech chips are hot again. Th…

Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance
Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance

Qualcomm, the king of the smartphone modem, is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance. The move would help it escape a shrinking phone market. It also shows US chipmakers will not give up on China. Qualcomm wants to be a chip designer for the AI…