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Amazon Is Taking Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Towns This Year
A sixfold expansion from 11 sites, with the MK30 limited to five-pound packages. That limit turns out to cover most of w...
Unitree Jumped 460% On Debut, And 8,000x Oversubscription Says Why
The first humanoid robot maker listed in mainland China raised US$904m. Both headline numbers measure constrained invest...
Nvidia H200s Are Reaching China Again, And Beijing Was The Blocker
ByteDance and Tencent have each taken around 10,000 of the accelerators. Washington permitted the chip because it is old...
Samsung Raised Foundry Prices Up To 15% While Losing Market Share
A supplier losing customers normally cuts prices. This one raised them, which means the lines are full — and the smalles...
River AI Raised US$1.1bn At Two Months Old, And Both GPU Vendors Are In It
An API in preview, no revenue to speak of, and an estimated US$5bn post-money. The detail worth reading is that Nvidia a...
ByteDance Is Building A Gigawatt In Brazil, And The Power Contract Is The Part Southeast Asia Cannot Copy
Construction has begun at Pecém in Ceará: 20 halls, 200 MW initial IT capacity, expansion toward 1 GW, backed by a 20-ye...
Etched Doubled to US$21 Billion After Its First Customer Led the Round
Jane Street tested the hardware, installed the first shipped system in its own data centre, then led the raise. The arch...
Marvell's Year Was Won by the Chips That Move Data, Not the Ones That Compute
A 181 per cent return ahead of Broadcom and Nvidia, driven by optical interconnect rather than the custom silicon the co...
Micron Raised a US$250 Million Fund to See Its Own Demand Three Years Out
A memory manufacturer investing across the AI stack is the smallest version of a pattern that now includes Nvidia's US$5...
GitHub Was Degraded for Three Hours and Build Pipelines Went With It
Archive downloads failed at around 50 per cent during the three-hour incident, which is what broke continuous integratio...
IBM Will Sell OpenAI's Models Through Its Consultants
A company with its own model family is putting a rival's frontier models into the platform its consultants use with clie...
Infleqtion Posted US$12.6 Million in Quantum Revenue, All of It Organic
Revenue up 116 per cent and entirely organic, against IonQ's larger partly-acquired figure. Infleqtion also counts in lo...
SK hynix Approved US$38 Billion of Fabs. The First Cleanroom Opens in 2028.
Memory prices have roughly doubled this year. The capacity that answers them breaks ground in 2027 and produces from lat...
Kioxia's Largest Shareholder Is Now a Vehicle Backed by a Rival
Toshiba sold enough stock to fall into second place behind a Bain vehicle financed by SK hynix. The Korean company holds...
Everyone Is Selling AI to Accounting Firms. This One Is Buying Them.
Thrive Holdings raised US$2 billion at a US$12 billion valuation to acquire accounting and IT firms rather than sell the...
A Quantum Company Reported Real Revenue. Read Which Part Is Quantum Computing.
Revenue up 287 per cent to US$80.1 million, a fifth consecutive record quarter, and a US$1.8 billion foundry purchase by...
AI Security Becomes Its Own Budget Line
Seven of the twelve cybersecurity funding deals announced between mid-July and early August went to companies protecting...
Applied Materials Had a Record Quarter. The Shares Fell Five Per Cent.
Revenue of US$9.12 billion, a beat on earnings, guidance nearly US$700 million above consensus - and the stock fell. Chi...
South Korea Has a New Chip Fund. Samsung and SK Hynix Are Not the Point.
Five trillion won goes to materials, components, equipment and fabless design - the layer under and alongside the champi...
2,000 Robotaxis, Five European Cities. One of Them Exists.
Pony.ai and Uber will put more than 2,000 robotaxis across five European cities. Four are unnamed and none has a date, s...
SMIC Is Running at 93.7 Per Cent. Prices Are Going Up.
Revenue passed US$3 billion for the first time and profit tripled, but the line that matters came from the earnings call...
Foxconn Now Earns More From AI Racks Than From Everything Apple
Cloud and networking hit 51 per cent of second-quarter revenue against 29 for consumer electronics - the first time AI s...
Microsoft Is Switching Off Teams Live Chat. Small Businesses Get Eight Weeks.
The feature launched in March 2025 and dies on 5 October. It was available only on the Business plans, so the migration...
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