Samsung announces a record $73.3 billion investment in chip capacity and research for 2026, a 22% spending surge designed to wrestle AI semiconductor dominance away from SK Hynix and outpace TSMC's $50 billion capex plan.
Baidu launches the Qianfan-VL series of vision-language models ranging from 3B to 70B parameters, alongside a new 4B Qianfan-OCR model featuring 'Layout-as-Thought' reasoning that tops major benchmarks, supports 192 languages, and is built for enterprise document understanding and visual reasoning tasks.
Samsung and AMD sign a landmark deal making Samsung the primary supplier of next-gen HBM4 high-bandwidth memory chips for AMD's MI455X AI accelerators, deepening their alliance in the rapidly growing AI data center market.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils NemoClaw at GTC, a powerful agent platform merging Nemotron models with self-evolving autonomous AI, while expanding its Vera Rubin rack with Groq 3 LPU chips to meet surging agentic AI computing demands ahead of a 2026 release.
IREN launches a massive 1,600MW AI data center campus across 2,000 acres in Oklahoma, backed by a landmark $9.7 billion Microsoft deal, positioning the facility as a major emerging hub for AI infrastructure in the United States with power ramping up in 2028.
AWS launches llm-d disaggregated inference on SageMaker HyperPod and EKS, delivering up to 70% higher LLM throughput by splitting compute-heavy prefill and memory-bound decode phases across distributed GPUs using an open-source Kubernetes-native framework built on vLLM.
NVIDIA launches OpenShell, a sandboxed runtime securing autonomous AI agents through four-layer defense-in-depth protection, blocking unauthorized file access, data exfiltration, and uncontrolled network activity via declarative YAML policies with GPU passthrough support and integration with top AI agents like Claude and Codex.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares robotics' ChatGPT moment has arrived, unveiling autonomous vehicle software, a major Uber robotaxi partnership spanning 28 markets by 2028, and AI tools designed to power the entire robotics ecosystem at the company's annual GTC conference.
Nvidia unveils its Vera Rubin Space Module at GTC, delivering 25x more AI compute power than the H100 GPU and enabling large language models to run directly in orbit, with space companies like Axiom Space and Planet already adopting the technology for real-time disaster monitoring, environmental tracking, and autonomous spacecraft …
Amazon and NVIDIA are joining forces to deliver a powerful multimodal AI assistant for vehicles by 2027, combining Alexa Custom Assistant with NVIDIA's DRIVE AGX platform to enable natural conversation, ambient awareness, and seamless cloud-connected features like smart home control and music streaming directly from the car.