What Is the Model Hardware Standard — AI That Runs Lab Gear
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents like Claude safely operate lab robots, microscopes, and factory equipment — turning weeks of custom integration into minutes.
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Anthropic Unveils Standard for AI to Control Lab Hardware
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting Claude and other AI agents safely operate lab and factory equipment like liquid handlers and microscopes.
Read more →Nvidia Posts Record $96.2B Quarter, Sees 70% Growth Ahead
Nvidia's quarterly revenue more than doubled to $96.2 billion, and the company issued its first-ever full-year forecast: 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.
Read more →OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outpaces Nvidia in Inference Benchmarks
OpenAI published its first benchmark results for Jalapeño, an in-house AI chip built with Broadcom, claiming it beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin systems on inference speed and power efficiency.
Read more →Anthropic Hires Amir Salek, Founder of Google's TPU Program
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who built and led Google's Tensor Processing Unit program for nearly a decade, to help run its own in-house chip effort, Bloomberg reported.
Read more →SK Hynix Approves Record $28.6B Buyback After AI Stock Slide
SK Hynix will buy back and cancel $28.6 billion in shares, the largest such program in Korean corporate history, after its stock fell more than 50% in two months despite record AI memory demand.
Read more →Google Wins Right to Buy $12.2B Marvell Stake in Chip Deal
Marvell issued Google a warrant worth up to $12.2 billion in stock, tied to an expanded deal for custom AI chips in Google's TPU ecosystem, an SEC filing shows.
Read more →Robot-Safety Startup FORT Robotics to List on Nasdaq for $556M
FORT Robotics, whose safety systems certify robots for Google DeepMind and Zoox, is going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $556.6 million.
Read more →Cerebras Launches CS-4, Claims 30x Faster AI Inference Than GPUs
Cerebras unveiled its CS-4 rack-scale AI system on August 18, pairing three new wafer-scale chips to push inference speeds it says beat GPU-based servers by up to 30 times.
Read more →Unitree Unveils 'Superman' Robot, Claims Record Speed and Jump
Chinese robotics maker Unitree unveiled an experimental humanoid, Superman, claiming a 2-meter jump and a sprint speed that would top Usain Bolt's peak pace — figures the company has not independently verified.
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AI Chip Startup Etched Raises $700M at $21B Valuation
Inference-chip startup Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a month after Jane Street tested and bought its hardware.
Read more →OpenAI Unveils Ultrafast Mode for GPT-5.6 Sol With Cerebras
OpenAI has begun previewing Ultrafast, a GPT-5.6 Sol tier that runs up to 14 times faster on Cerebras' wafer-scale chips, reaching 750 tokens per second.
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What Is Quantum Computing — and How Could It Change AI?
A plain-language explainer on how quantum computing actually works, why it's so hard to build, and how it's already crossing paths with AI today.
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What Is a Follow-On Stock Offering — and Why Chipmakers Use One?
A plain-language guide to follow-on stock offerings: how a public company raises fresh cash by selling new shares, and why chipmakers are increasingly using them to pay for AI expansion.
Read more →Intel Raises $20 Billion in Stock Sale to Fund AI Chip Expansion
Intel priced a $20 billion stock offering on August 10, upsized from an initial $15 billion plan, to fund AI chip manufacturing and foundry expansion.
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What Is a Small Modular Reactor — and Why Does AI Need One?
A small modular reactor is a compact, factory-built nuclear plant under 300 megawatts. AI companies are betting billions on them to keep power-hungry data centers running around the clock.
Read more →Tesla, SpaceX Confirm $16.8B 'Terafab' Chip Plant Site in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8 billion in the first phase of Terafab, a Texas chip plant meant to supply AI compute for humanoid robots, robotaxis and orbital data centers.
Read more →AMD Acquires Taalas, an AI Inference Chip Startup
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches AI models directly into silicon, aiming to boost inference speed and efficiency across its chip lineup.
Read more →Anthropic Confirms In-House Chip Team to Power Claude
Anthropic said it is building an internal team to design custom AI chips for Claude, aiming to run its models faster and more cheaply without dropping its other hardware partners.
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What Is Silicon Photonics — and Why Does AI Depend on It?
Silicon photonics moves data with pulses of light instead of electricity, letting AI chips exchange far more data using far less power as GPU clusters scale to hundreds of thousands of chips.
Read more →Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-1, a 100,000-Hour-Trained Robot Model
Xiaomi released the code and checkpoints for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a vision-language-action model it says tops several robot-manipulation benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.
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