Meta strikes a blow in the AI talent war, poaching Ruoming Pang, Apple's head of AI models who oversaw training for the tech giant's in-house AI systems, in a potential exodus from Apple's troubled artificial intelligence division.
Groq, an AI semiconductor startup, launches its first European data center in Helsinki, Finland through a partnership with Equinix, enabling rapid expansion of AI services in Europe with the deployment taking only 4 weeks from decision to serving traffic.
Asus unveils the Ascend GX10, a compact yet powerful mini-PC featuring Nvidia's Grace Blackwell platform, combining a Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU for AI workloads, delivering data center-level performance in a small form factor, expected to launch on July 22 at around $3,000.
The US government initiates an 'AI Manhattan Project' consolidating private sector resources and investing a fraction of GDP, aiming for a 2e29 FLOP training run by 2027, around 500 times larger than the most compute-intensive model to date and 10,000 times larger than GPT-4.
Apple launches an affordable A18-powered MacBook with vibrant color options like silver, pink, and yellow, aiming for 5-7 million unit sales in 2026 through an aggressive pricing strategy.
A massive 5,800-acre 'Hypergrid' campus with potential to deliver up to 11 gigawatts of power for next-generation Artificial Intelligence is being built in Amarillo, co-founded by former Texas Governor Rick Perry, signaling new investment in the Texas Panhandle.
Microsoft's custom AI chip Braga faces unexpected delays, pushing mass production to 2026, allowing Nvidia's Blackwell chips to solidify dominance in the AI chip market due to design changes, staffing shortages, and high turnover at Microsoft.
Xiaomi introduces its AI smart glasses equipped with a 12MP camera, Qualcomm's AR1 chip, voice assistant, and 8.6-hour battery life, entering the competitive AI glasses market led by Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Google introduces Gemini Robotics On-Device, a local AI system enabling efficient, dexterous, and low-latency robotics with fast task adaptation through an SDK for developers.
Microsoft introduces Mu, a compact language model engineered for efficient performance on edge devices and NPUs, powering the new AI-powered agent in Windows Settings that understands natural language queries and adjusts relevant settings.