Topic: AI Hardware
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Nvidia's Rubin Platform: The Future of AI Computing
Nvidia's Rubin platform aims to make advanced AI more accessible by dramatically reducing operational costs, promising up to a tenfold decrease in inference expenses and requiring far fewer GPUs than its predecessor. The platform's efficiency stems from an integrated design featuring six speciali...
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OpenAI's New AI Device: A Calmer Alternative to the iPhone
OpenAI's upcoming AI device, developed with Jony Ive, aims for a calmer, more focused user experience, contrasting with today's attention-grabbing smartphones through a straightforward, potentially screenless design. The device will feature advanced contextual awareness, learning user rhythms to ...
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Kevin Rose's AI Test: Would You Punch Someone Wearing It?
Kevin Rose avoids investing in AI hardware that violates social norms or privacy, preferring devices that foster emotional connection and social acceptance rather than intrusive technology. He is concerned about the societal impact of AI, drawing parallels to early social media missteps and highl...
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Nscale Partners with Microsoft on Major AI Infrastructure Deal
Nscale has partnered with Microsoft to deploy nearly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across data centers in Europe and the U.S., significantly expanding AI infrastructure and establishing Nscale as a key global player. The deployment includes 104,000 GPUs in Texas, 12,600 in Portugal, and additional un...
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CES 2026: Top 5 Tech Trends to Watch
CES 2026 will showcase AI's evolution from software into physical companions through a new generation of smart wearables and integrated digital assistants. The event will highlight transformative hardware like trifold smartphones and advanced home robots, signaling a shift toward more versatile a...
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Why Your Phone's AI Isn't Getting Smarter
The article highlights a disconnect between the marketing of powerful on-device AI chips (NPUs) in smartphones and the reality that most transformative AI features, like advanced chatbots, still rely on cloud servers. It explains that an NPU is a specialized processor within a phone's main chip, ...
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The Inevitable Rise of Wearable Tech
Major tech companies are aggressively expanding wearable ecosystems, pushing consumers to adopt multiple devices like smart glasses, rings, and watches simultaneously. The proliferation of wearables creates compatibility issues and physical limitations, as devices compete for space on the body an...
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Cerebras Raises $1.1B While Still Private a Year After IPO Filing
Cerebras Systems raised $1.1 billion in Series G funding, reaching an $8.1 billion valuation, co-led by Fidelity and Atreides Management, despite previous IPO plans for 2025. The company's growth is driven by strong demand for its AI inference services launched in 2024, leading to workforce expan...
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Meta's New Smart Glasses Launch This Week: Here's What to Expect
Meta's Connect conference will highlight new smart glasses with an embedded display controlled by gesture-detecting wristbands, alongside AI and metaverse updates. The smart glasses, developed under Project Hypernova, use sEMG technology for precise hand gesture control and are expected to retail...
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UK Invests $130M in AI Tech to Boost Sector Growth
The UK government is investing £100 million to purchase AI chips from domestic companies, providing guaranteed payments to support startups in key industries like life sciences and financial services. Modeled after the COVID-19 vaccine strategy, this "first customer" program commits to buying AI ...
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Tech & AI in 2025: The Year in Review
AI matured from a novelty to a core operational tool, driving productivity and reshaping business processes as it became widely integrated into daily workflows. Global regulatory frameworks, led by the EU's AI Act, came into full force, establishing strict rules and ending the era of unregulated ...
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Meta Hires Apple's Top Designers to Revamp Its Software UI
Meta has hired two top Apple designers, Alan Dye and Billy Sorrentino, to lead a major overhaul of its software and hardware design, aiming to fix its fragmented user experience. This strategic move is seen as critical for addressing Meta's fundamental software weaknesses and improving user reten...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: Key Updates Revealed
The 2025 OpenAI DevDay addresses ongoing public debates, including leadership, AI ethics, environmental impacts, and disputes with figures like Elon Musk. Key announcements focus on a consumer AI hardware project with Jony Ive, updates to the Sora video generator, and a potential proprietary brow...
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Nothing's AI Tool Builds Mini Apps From Prompts
Nothing has launched Playground, an AI-driven platform that lets users create widgets and small apps from text prompts for its Essential Apps ecosystem. The company secured $200 million in funding to pursue AI-integrated software and hardware, aiming to innovate where larger brands have been slow...
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Intel Goes Custom Chip Foundry, Nvidia Named as Key Customer
Intel has appointed a dedicated executive and secured a multi-year agreement to produce custom Xeon CPUs for Nvidia, positioning itself as a competitor in the custom chip design market. The company's custom silicon business, led by Srini Iyengar, aims to meet the growing demand for tailored proce...
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Humanoids, AVs & Beyond: AI Hardware's Future at Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco will host over 10,000 attendees to explore AI hardware advancements, featuring leaders from Waabi and Apptronik. The session will focus on integrating AI into physical systems like autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots, addressing challenges such as ener...
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Nothing Raises $200M from Tiger Global for AI Device Launch
Nothing secured $200 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.3 billion and bringing total funding to over $450 million, with strong investor backing. The company has achieved over $1 billion in total sales, shipping 5.1 million devices, and is focusing on AI integration and expandi...
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OpenAI's Audio Push: Silicon Valley's Screen-Free Future
OpenAI is consolidating teams to develop advanced audio AI models, supporting a new screen-free personal device launch within a year as part of an industry shift toward voice interfaces. Major tech companies like Meta and Google are enhancing audio capabilities in products, while startups are exp...
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CES 2026: The 5 Biggest Tech Trends to Watch
CES 2024 will showcase major trends, including advanced AI wearables, novel device form factors, and foundational semiconductor innovations. AI is being integrated into smart glasses and pins for proactive assistance, while smartphone design is evolving with foldable and trifold screens. The show...
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Unconventional AI Secures Record $475M Seed Funding
Unconventional AI, founded by former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao, has raised a record $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation, marking the start of a larger round targeting up to $1 billion. The startup is backed by major investors like Andreessen Horowitz and aims to build nov...
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Our Team's Top Predictions for 2026
The consumer tech landscape in 2026 will be defined by the continued central force of generative AI, building directly on the hardware innovations of 2025. Key hardware predictions include Apple potentially entering the foldable device market and the rise of wearable AI assistants, alongside more...
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Google's Surprising Turnaround: From Worst to Best Year
Google successfully navigated major legal and antitrust challenges in 2025, avoiding a catastrophic breakup of its core businesses like Chrome and its ad tech empire, despite initial rulings against it. The company aggressively invested in and achieved competitive victories in artificial intellig...
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Amazon Builds On-Premises Nvidia AI Factories to Rival Competitors
Amazon has launched "AI Factories," a service allowing corporations and governments to run advanced AI systems in their own secure data centers, addressing demands for data sovereignty and control by keeping sensitive information on-premises. The service is a collaboration with Nvidia, offering c...
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Interview: Bard Predicts the Singularity Within 20-30 Years
The singularity is coming, and it is coming sooner than we think. Bard, a large language model from Google AI, predicts that it is likely to happen within the next 20-30 years.
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