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Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production as it strives to maintain its dominance in the world of AI compute. The new chip, announced today at Hot Chips 2026, is described …
IBM is developing a dual-architecture chip to run Arm-native AI apps on Z mainframes and Linux servers
IBM Corp. said today at the annual Hot Chips 2026 conference that it’s developing a groundbreaking new dual-architecture processor in partnership with the British chip design firm Arm Holdings Ltd. that’s destined to power its next-generation IBM Z mainframes and LinuxONE systems. …
Sam Altman voices fears that control of AI could be centered in too few hands
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman is worried that artificial intelligence technology will end up being controlled by just a handful of companies or people in future, resulting in nobody else having any say about how it impacts society. Speaking in …
Google’s attempt to buy Spirit Airlines’ data might come unstuck
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence researchers had been salivating at the prospect of getting their hands on a trove of business data acquired from the defunct airline Spirit Airlines Inc. in an auction, but the proposed deal is being challenged by two separate …
Astromech raises $20M to build a biological operating system that can forecast evolutionary change
An artificial intelligence startup called Astromech that’s developing models that can predict biological change has raised $20 million in funding, lifting its valuation to $3.8 billion. The round was led by biotechnology investor Bob Nelsen and saw the participation of Peak 6, …
Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats
Anthropic PBC is privately hoping its upcoming initial public offering will match or even surpass the size of SpaceX Corp.’s record-breaking IPO as it doubles down on its bid to go public ahead of rival OpenAI Group PBC. Anonymous sources who are …
Dirac Labs to scale quantum positioning tech after raising $1.8M to build its first prototypes
Quantum navigation startup Dirac Labs Inc. has the money it needs to start building prototypes of its ultra-accurate quantum positioning sensor devices and test them in the field after closing on $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. Today’s round was led by TitletownTech, …
Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding
Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising $90 million in a seed funding round today. The round, which was first …
Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s going to eliminate the headaches and hassles that have slowed enterprise’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence with today’s launch of its new Cloudera Anywhere Cloud platform. It’s targeted at agentic AI workloads, namely the autonomous AI …
Rundoo raises $30M to expand its AI-native operating system for small supply stores
Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a $30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amount raised so far to $48 million. Today’s round was led by …