IREN lands massive $9.7 billion five-year Microsoft GPU cloud services contract and $5.8 billion Dell partnership to deploy NVIDIA GB300 GPUs at its 750MW Texas AI campus through 2026, positioning the company as a major AI cloud provider with access to global hyperscaler customers.
Lambda strikes massive multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft to construct AI infrastructure featuring tens of thousands of Nvidia chips, serving over 200,000 developers while planning a Kansas City AI factory by 2026.
Chinese researchers at Peking University develop groundbreaking analog chip using resistive memory that delivers 1,000x faster performance than top Nvidia and AMD GPUs while consuming 100x less energy, solving precision issues that have plagued analog computing for decades.
Korean researchers develop revolutionary 10-gram fabric muscle that lifts 15 kilograms, enabling ultra-lightweight wearable robots under 2kg that reduce human muscle effort by 40% and improve movement range by 57% in patients with muscular weakness.
Scientists at University of Texas at Dallas unveil a revolutionary brain-inspired computer that learns like humans while consuming 90% less energy than current AI systems, potentially bringing powerful machine learning capabilities to mobile devices and dramatically reducing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.
MediaTek sets ambitious goal to capture 10-15% of the $50 billion data center ASIC chip market, targeting $1 billion in cloud AI chip revenue by 2026 through partnerships with Nvidia on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
Apple crushes Q4 earnings with $102.47 billion revenue and $1.85 EPS, beating estimates as iPhone 17 demand reaches record highs with supply constraints driving expectations for the company's best December quarter ever.
Cognition unveils SWE-1.5, a breakthrough AI coding model with hundreds of billions of parameters that blazes at 950 tokens per second—13x faster than Sonnet 4.5—while delivering near state-of-the-art performance through advanced reinforcement learning and partnership with Cerebras infrastructure.
Amazon launches the world's largest AI data center in Indiana as part of its $11 billion Project Rainier, spanning 1,200 acres with 500,000 custom Trainium chips to train Anthropic's Claude models, while local residents worry about farmland loss and soaring utility costs.
Cursor launches Composer, a revolutionary AI coding agent that generates software four times faster than competitors using advanced mixture-of-experts architecture and reinforcement learning trained on real-world engineering challenges.