Syntiant Files for Nasdaq IPO to Scale 'Physical AI' Chips
Intel- and Microsoft-backed chipmaker Syntiant filed to list on Nasdaq under ticker SYTN, betting on demand for its low-power, on-device 'Physical AI' processors.
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Samsung's Q2 Profit Surges 19-Fold to $58 Billion on AI Memory Boom
Samsung Electronics said preliminary operating profit for the second quarter jumped roughly 19-fold as AI-driven demand pushed DRAM and NAND memory prices sharply higher.
Read more →What Is a Neocloud? The GPU Clouds Powering the AI Boom
A neocloud is a cloud company built to rent out GPUs for AI work — and it's why bitcoin miners are turning old mining sites into AI data centers.
Read more →Anthropic Signs $19 Billion Data Center Lease With TeraWulf
Anthropic will lease a 401-megawatt AI computing campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, from TeraWulf under a 20-year, $19 billion deal, with capacity coming online starting in 2027.
Read more →China's GLM-5.2 Rivals US Frontier AI at One-Sixth the Cost
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that matches GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks and trails Claude Opus 4.8 narrowly — trained entirely on Huawei silicon with no Nvidia hardware.
Read more →Meituan Reveals LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI That Secretly Led Global Charts
Chinese tech company Meituan has disclosed that "Owl Alpha," an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter rankings for two months, was its 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 — trained entirely on domestic chips and now free under an MIT license.
Read more →Unitree Robotics Wins Final Approval for $620M Shanghai IPO
China's top humanoid robot maker received China Securities Regulatory Commission clearance on July 2 to list on Shanghai's STAR Market, aiming to raise 4.2 billion yuan to fund AI model development and new products.
Read more →What Is a Humanoid Robot — and What Can Today's Models Do?
Humanoid robots — machines built to move and work like humans — have left the research lab and entered the factory floor. Here's what they are, how they work, and what to expect next.
Read more →South Korea Bets $880 Billion on AI and Semiconductor Dominance
President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a sweeping national strategy on June 29, committing at least $880 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix, and major Korean conglomerates to semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and data centers through 2035.
Read more →What Is AI Compute — and Why Is There a Shortage?
AI compute is the specialized processing power needed to train and run AI models. Demand has far outpaced supply — here is why the shortage persists and what it means for the industry.
Read more →Samsung Commits $648 Billion to AI Chips Over the Next Decade
Samsung Group pledged 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) at a South Korean government briefing on June 28, with over 350 trillion won targeting AI data centers and semiconductor factories across the country over ten years.
Read more →What Is High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) — and Why Does AI Depend on It?
HBM is a specialized memory technology that stacks chips vertically to deliver 10–20× the data throughput of conventional DRAM — making it the critical ingredient in every major AI accelerator today.
Read more →SK Hynix Plans $29 Billion Nasdaq Listing to Expand AI Memory
South Korea's leading chipmaker SK Hynix plans to raise $29.4 billion via a Nasdaq ADR offering — which would be the largest in history — to fund new AI memory production capacity.
Read more →Qualcomm Agrees to Acquire AI Software Startup Modular
Qualcomm has agreed to buy Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX platform, for a reported ~$4 billion, aiming to build a cross-hardware AI deployment stack.
Read more →Qualcomm Unveils Dragonfly Data Center Chip Family, Wins Meta as First Customer
Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
Read more →What Is On-Device AI — and Why It Matters
On-device AI runs machine learning models directly on your phone, laptop, or chip — without sending data to the cloud. It is the technology behind Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini Nano, and a new wave of ultra-small models like Liquid AI's LFM2.5-230M.
Read more →Liquid AI Ships 230M Open Model for On-Device AI Agents
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, a 230-million-parameter open-weight model that runs AI agent tasks at 213 tokens per second on a phone CPU and 42 tokens per second on a Raspberry Pi — without a cloud connection.
Read more →Agility Robotics Plans $2.5 Billion Public Listing Via SPAC
Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid robot, has entered a SPAC merger valuing the company at $2.5 billion — one of the first major public listings for a commercial humanoid robotics firm.
Read more →What Is an AI Inference Chip — and Why Are Companies Building Their Own?
An AI inference chip is specialized hardware built to run trained AI models quickly and cheaply at scale. Here is why every major tech company is now racing to design its own instead of buying from Nvidia.
Read more →SK Hynix Files for $29B Nasdaq Listing to Expand AI Memory Supply
The South Korean chipmaker behind more than half the world's HBM memory—the critical component inside AI accelerators—is seeking $29.4 billion on Nasdaq to fund four new semiconductor plants.
Read more →Qualcomm Buys AI Software Startup Modular for $3.9 Billion
Qualcomm will acquire Modular — creator of the Mojo language and MAX inference engine — in a $3.9 billion all-stock deal aimed at letting developers deploy AI on any hardware without rewrites.
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