Huawei unveils its Ascend 910D AI chip, aiming to surpass Nvidia's H100 chip performance and challenge the tech giant's dominance in the high-end AI chip market, despite ongoing trade restrictions on exporting advanced chips to China.
WEKA unveils GPU-accelerated storage solutions certified for NVIDIA AI platforms, eliminating bottlenecks to maximize GPU utilization and providing validated reference architectures for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and BasePOD deployments.
OpenAI spent $3B on coding startup Windsurf, Google fortified its AI lead via benchmarks and talent retention, while Apple lagged due to privacy restrictions limiting training data access, intensifying the AI arms race.
Dosidicus is an innovative AI-powered digital pet that mimics neurogenesis and learning, featuring a neural network that autonomously makes decisions, detects food, and creates new neurons, catering to its evolving needs like hunger, sleepiness, and happiness across seven distinct personality types.
While China has surged ahead in deep tech innovation like AI and semiconductors due to its manufacturing prowess and heavy R&D investment, India is now playing catch-up by increasing funding and policy support for AI and domestic chip manufacturing initiatives.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announces ambitious 2027 deadline to crack AI's mysterious 'black box' problem, warning against deploying powerful systems that researchers cannot explain while calling for industry-wide safety research and government regulations to prevent an uncontrolled global AI race.
Major Chinese tech giants like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent hoarded billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia's H20 AI chips, designed for sale in China, in anticipation of U.S. export restrictions, aiming to stockpile around 1 million chips before the curbs were imposed in April.
While OpenAI's o3 AI model underperformed initial claims with a 10% score on a benchmark test, the company's newer models like o3-mini-high and o4-mini show promise by outperforming the public o3 release, indicating progress in AI capabilities.
Google has regained its dominance in the AI field, with its powerful models like Gemini 2.5 outperforming rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, thanks to its unparalleled AI capabilities, talent, infrastructure, and resources, allowing it to reclaim a commanding lead after initially stumbling with ChatGPT.
SoftBank-backed SambaNova Systems, a US chip startup, reports surging demand in Asia for its affordable AI chips as an alternative to Nvidia's costly offerings, fueled by the rise of open-source AI models like China's DeepSeek.