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Anthropic Builds In-House Team to Design Custom AI Chips for Claude
Anthropic announced it is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, hiring engineers to…
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Alibaba Makes Qwen3.8-Max Widely Accessible Ahead of Open-Weights Release
Alibaba’s Qwen team made Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, broadly available through a hosted API compatible with OpenAI and DashScope…
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US Reviews Chinese Firms’ Offshore Access to Nvidia Chips After AI Breakthroughs
The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security is investigating how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips remotely through overseas data…
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AMD Posts Record Revenue as Data Center AI Sales More Than Double
AMD reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year, driven by data center revenue that more than…
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Samsung Unveils zHBM 3D Memory Architecture to Tackle AI Bottlenecks
Samsung unveiled zHBM, a next-generation 3D memory architecture, at the FMS 2026 conference, claiming it delivers roughly eight times the…
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OpenAI Removes Daily Chat Limits for Free ChatGPT Users, Sets GPT-5.6 Luna as Default
OpenAI has eliminated daily text chat limits for free ChatGPT users and switched their default model from GPT-5.5 Instant to…
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xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Region-Level Editing Tools
xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, adding a magic wand tool, multi-image reference inputs and smart-resize features…
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CrowdStrike Report Finds AI Now Embedded Across Adversary Cyberattack Operations
CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report finds that artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in cyberattack operations, serving as both a…
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xAI Plans Grok 4.6 Launch With 1.5 Trillion Parameters
Elon Musk said xAI plans to release Grok 4.6, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model, around August 7, 2026. The company describes the…
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Firmus Raises $2 Billion, Doubling Valuation to $10.5 Billion for AI Data Centers
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies raised $2 billion in a new funding round, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5…
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Suno Tightens Download Limits and Rolls Out Watermarking Amid Copyright Pressure
AI music generator Suno announced stricter download limits and new content-identification tools aimed at curbing bulk distribution of AI-generated songs…
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Microsoft to Merge Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Copilot Cowork Into a Single App
Microsoft is consolidating its various Copilot products into a single unified application, combining Copilot chat, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Cowork, and…