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Pixel 11's Tensor G6 Trails Rival Chips by Wide Margins, Report Says
Report: Pixel 11's Tensor G6 trails Apple and Samsung chips by wide margins in benchmarks and gaming.
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Report: Pixel 11's Tensor G6 trails Apple and Samsung chips by wide margins in benchmarks and gaming.
Seoul shares jump 4.6% to a five-week high on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, while the won hits a near two-year high.
South Korea's exports to India jumped 30.8% on-year to $16.8 billion in Jan.-Aug., driven by strong chip demand, KOTRA said.
South Korean stocks opened sharply higher Monday, led by tech shares despite Middle East tensions, after OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra raised chip demand expectations.
SpaceX targets 2027 for orbital data centers; analysts see scale in 2030s.
AI data center investments have sparked a rural land rush across the U.S., sending property values soaring and drawing protests from farmers and residents.
Perplexity Engineering published a blog post explaining the GPU serving infrastructure behind pplx-embed, covering Ivy, Tulip and ROSE components and optimization techniques.
Gimlet Labs raised $300M at a $3B valuation for AI inference disaggregation platform and custom hardware.
Nvidia has unveiled a custom high-bandwidth memory, claiming higher bandwidth and lower power use. TechRadar's report asks who will get to use it.
Enterprise AI infrastructure is moving beyond VMs to distributed inference and workload fit, vendors said.
Nvidia confirmed a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face this week, while CrowdStrike and VMware expanded AI offerings and model labs kept up a fast release pace.
Leaked Exynos 2700 die shot shows deca-core CPU, Xclipse 970 GPU, and large NPU for Galaxy S27.
Astribot launches SmoothRL for async robot learning; Qujing and Moore Threads partner on domestic AI token systems.
Naver founder Lee Hae-jin and Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt held follow-up talks on a 1GW AI factory project, with Brookfield to invest up to $9 billion in the first phase.
Venture investors are turning more selective toward AI startups, warning that a shakeout in early-stage deals may come over the next 6-12 months as focus shifts to productivity and genuine value.
Ugreen unveiled a smart home ecosystem centered on local AI hubs, promising cloud-free privacy. Prices start at $1,799 for the HomeAgent and reach $20,000 for the Nvidia-powered MasterAgent.
Next MacBook Neo reportedly to feature A19 Pro chip, 12GB RAM and new AI features; release expected in 2027.
Jim Cramer's Thursday market preview points to a flat open as yields rise, with Snowflake surging over 24%, Broadcom slipping on light guidance, and Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Horizon Robotics says its Journey chip shipments surpassed 15 million units; a 20-company embodied-intelligence Tier-1 alliance was formed, and ZINOVA and LimX Dynamics demonstrated construction work with a dual-arm robot.
Nvidia agrees to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, expanding from chips into the developer ecosystem.
AI video chip SmarCo GC3 and 3D scene model WorldGen launch to ease content creation bottlenecks.
Samsung Electronics' HBM market share rose to 33% in Q2 from 21%, narrowing the gap with leader SK hynix, which fell to 50%, according to Counterpoint Research.
US AI data center boom relies on Chinese power components, raising supply concerns and prompting Trump action, CNBC reports.
Lei Feng Network reports that Hugging Face-backed Pollen Robotics’ 25-cm Microduck spotlights edge AI, but the real challenge is whether large language models can run efficiently on end devices.