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Chips & Hardware
Silicon, servers, fabs and the supply chains that decide who gets to compute.
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The AI Bill Comes Due: OpenAI Trims Its Raise as Meta Gets a Credit Warning
OpenAI reportedly cut its funding target by $10B, S&P put Meta on negative outlook and Intel fell 28%. Wall Street is still…
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Google’s Space Data Center Wrote a Haiku. Now Comes the Hard Part
Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype ran Gemma 4 on a TPU in orbit and sent back a poem. The real test is whether…
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Show Me the Money: Anthropic Opens Its Books as Broadcom, SpaceX and Meta Line Up AI Compute Deals
Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO with $16.3B in first-half revenue, OpenAI halves agent pricing with GPT-6.1 Terra, and Broadcom, SpaceX and…
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Commerce Puts $260 Million in CHIPS Money Into Fusion Chips for Helion and CFS
Commerce signed letters of intent for $389M in CHIPS R&D awards, led by $175M for Helion and $85M for Commonwealth Fusion Systems.…
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Nvidia Now Ships the AI Data Center in a Box: Meet the DSX POD
Nvidia’s DSX POD packs seven Vera Rubin racks into a truck-sized container and claims it can cut deployment from six months to…
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Week in Review: Gemini 4 Argon, Giant Open Models and AI in the Linux Kernel
Our first week of coverage: Google’s new frontier model, three huge open-weights drops, Torvalds tries Claude Code, TSMC prints money, and eight…
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Arrive With 128GB of Memory and a $2,599 Floor
Nvidia’s first Windows laptop superchip pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace Arm CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory.…
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TSMC’s Q3 Is So Good It’s Almost Boring: $46.7 Billion and a 66% Gross Margin
The world’s chip foundry posted 50.9% revenue growth, a 51.1% net margin, and guided even higher for Q4 as 2nm ramps. The…