Microsoft unveils its Maia 200 AI chip, boasting 30% better cost-per-performance than competitors and three times faster speeds than Amazon's Trainium, as tech giants race to break Nvidia's market dominance amid severe AI chip shortages.
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in CoreWeave to build over 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030, deepening their partnership through advanced technology integration including Rubin platform and Vera CPUs while developing AI-native software for cloud and enterprise customers.
Tech titans including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella dominate Davos discussions as AI takes center stage, with CEOs clashing over China chip sales policies and warning of potential market bubbles while traditional summit topics like climate change get sidelined.
Apple secretly develops AI chatbot codenamed Campos using Google's Gemini models to replace Siri while planning an AirTag-sized wearable for 2027, as Nex Computer announces a $549 smartphone running Android, Linux, and Windows, and Sony sells majority control of its TV business to TCL.
Railway secures $100 million Series B funding led by TQ Ventures to tackle software deployment bottlenecks as AI dramatically accelerates development speed but infrastructure tools struggle to keep pace.
AheadComputing secures $30 million in Series Seed2 funding to develop RISC-V processors specifically for AI data centers, as industry forecasts predict AI workloads will dominate 70% of data center compute demand by 2030.
Nvidia unveils four cutting-edge AI models and new open-source robotics frameworks at CES while Boston Dynamics, LG Electronics, and other major companies simultaneously launch revolutionary robots powered by Nvidia's technology, including the new Blackwell-powered Jetson T4000 module delivering four times greater performance for next-generation industrial and household robotics applications.
Tesla revives its scrapped Dojo3 AI chip project with a dramatic pivot from self-driving cars to space-based computing systems, as Musk rebuilds the team that disbanded five months ago to support his ambitious plan for solar-powered AI satellites launched via SpaceX Starship.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei slams U.S. approval of Nvidia H200 chip sales to China as equivalent to 'selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,' warning that exporting advanced AI technology could create '100 million people smarter than Nobel Prize winners' under foreign control, despite Nvidia being a major Anthropic partner and …
Worldwide AI spending skyrockets to $2.52 trillion by 2026 with a massive 44% year-over-year surge, driven by $401 billion in infrastructure investments and 49% jump in AI-optimized servers, even as the industry remains trapped in a 'Trough of Disillusionment' with companies demanding proven returns over speculative projects.