Announced on October 28 in Tokyo, the agreement commits both governments to securing mineral flows and accelerating the deployment of advanced nuclear power.

Nvidia, Oracle, and the U.S. Department of Energy will build seven ExaFLOPS-class AI supercomputers for Argonne National Laboratory — including the Oracle-built Equinox and Solstice systems with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs delivering up to 2,200 FP4 ExaFLOPS — to power next-generation AI and scientific research.

OpenAI is restructuring into a public benefit corporation with Microsoft retaining a 27% stake in the new "OpenAI PBC," worth roughly $135 billion. OpenAI PBC will still be overseen by the non-profit OpenAI Inc., soon to be renamed OpenAI Foundation. Both companies are intertwined till at least 2032 with major cloud computing contracts.

Nvidia introduces Omniverse DSX Blueprint, a digital-twin-based reference design for gigawatt-scale AI data centers that standardizes how partners can build and optimize 'AI factories.'

Unsuspecting YouTube viewers looking for Nvidia's GTC keynote on Tuesday might well have found themselves accidentally watching a Jensen Huang deepfake promoting a cryptocurrency scam, after YouTube promoted the video over the official stream.

Elon Musk's statement that Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab is more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona reflects the newer 3nm-era tools being installed there. However, this advantage has little relevance for Tesla's AI5 processor, which likely relies on SF4A FinFET technology, which gains minimal benefit from those capabilities.

Nvidia and HPE will build the Mission and Vision supercomputers for Los Alamos based on the Vera Rubin platform to advance national-security and open-science research using AI simulation and scientific computing.

Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association pressures the government for plentiful and green energy

Nvidia’s DGX Spark, the company’s new $4,000 developer box powered by the Grace Blackwell GB10 superchip, is under fire after questions were raised about real-world performance and power draw.

Nvidia is hosting GTC and its keynote to reveal what's next in agentic AI, robotics, and accelerated computing.

OpenAI has called on the US to build out more power-generating infrastructure, claiming that it is needed to help provide the backbone for the AI race the US is now in with China. With enormous infrastructure projects planned, it wants the US to build an additional 100 gigawatts of new energy capacity every year.

The AirSense UAV drone is constructed from eco-friendly packaging boards and paper fiber.

China's GDIIST research institute has announced the development and soon release of the BIE-1, an AI supercomputer inspired by the operation of the human brain. This neuromorphic computing tech is one of the first standalone, non-rack-based brain-based computers we've ever seen.

The greatest threat to AI datacenter expansion in 2026 might not be compute, land, or capital, but jet engines, as hyperscalers face multi-year waits for turbines earmarked for AI deployments.

U.S. DoE and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers.

Qualcomm has unveiled its AI200 and AI250 rack-scale AI inference solutions relying on data center-grade Hexagon NPUs with near-memory computing, micro-tile inferencing, and confidential computing support.

Chinese defense company Norinco introduced an AI military drone with 'autonomous combat-support' capability to help make warfare more efficient.

Microsoft’s AI ambitions are in large part tied to OpenAI, but the financial picture surrounding the connection is pretty murky.

Ohio researchers successfully demonstrate 'fungal computing via mycelial networks.'

US and Chinese trade negotiators say they’ve reached a framework agreement that, if approved by both governments this week, would roll back proposed 100% tariffs on Chinese imports and pause Beijing’s escalating export restrictions on rare-earth materials.

Sam Altman isn’t known for understatement, but even by his own standards, what he said on stage at OpenAI’s DevDay conference earlier this month was pretty problematic.

Wingtech, the Chinese parent company of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, has warned investors of a potential cash flow squeeze if it fails to regain operational control of its European subsidiary.

USD.AI is a new DeFi protocol that lets you invest your stablecoin in an AI data center, with each investment tied to a real Nvidia AI GPU.

Technical Business Development for Startups lead at Microsoft complains 'my whole job is begging for GPUs.'

A tech services firm’s Careers page has startled netizens around the globe with a beyond parody brutalist business buzzword bingo ‘values’ statement.

IBM's Starling project gets a boost from quantum error-correction algorithms running on conventional AMD FPGAs

Nexperia's China subsidiary refuses to follow its HQ's order to vacate the position of John Chang, its VP for global sales and marketing, citing conflict with Chinese law.

Anthropic and Google Cloud just signed a deal that will bring the AI company's compute capacity to over 1GW.

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TSMC says that it has about a year or two of rare-earth supplies, but transitioning to other non-China sources will take time.

AMD is investing over $280 million to establish two new R&D centers in Taiwan dedicated to silicon photonics and heterogeneous integration to further boost its data center roadmap.

Massive Amazon Web Service outage that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days was due to DNS.

Tesla's next-gen AI5 chips is going to be manufactured by both TSMC and, now, Samsung in America. Musk claims that it's 40x faster than the outgoing AI4 silicon, mostly because of a radical design approach that ditches legacy hardware blocks to focus on what's needed right now.

Japan's Automobile Manufacturers Association warned that Nexperia's disrupted chip supply could halt vehicle production across Japan, as Volkswagen is reportedly preparing to suspend assembly of Golf and Tiguan models as early as next week.

The CCP's 15th five-year plan draft focuses on a path of technological independence while reducing its reliance on exports for economic growth.

A European think tank suggests retaliatory trade measures against China, and the trigger appears to be Beijing’s threat to restrict exports of gallium and germanium, two raw materials used in everything from EVs to satellites.

Trump is considering blocking all U.S. software from China if it doesn't lift its rare earth restrictions.

The U.S. government is in talks to take equity stakes in major quantum computing startups in exchange for at least $10 million each in funding from the Commerce Department.

Google's Willow chip and Quantum Echo algorithm achieve world's first practical application of quantum computing.

The first Nvidia H100 GPUs are heading into space next month, in Starcloud satellites that will power the Crusoe Cloud.

China’s Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce has published new questionnaires for US semiconductor businesses designed to find any discrepancies in their international pricing as part of an anti-dumping investigation.

The hack of British car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, has cost the UK economy as much as $2.5 billion, affecting more than 5,000 organizations as the breach brought the company and its entire supply chain to their knees.