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The memory stack feeding AI accelerators is getting a quiet overhaul. At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung laid out its plan to build High Bandwidth Memory base dies on a logic process node — a step change that frees up die area it wants to fill with memory controllers, sensors, and eventually
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Nvidia commercialized its largest acquisition at Hot Chips 2026 on Monday, while a New York startup betting that video games can teach robots how to move pulled in fresh capital at a $6 billion valuation. Here's what moved in AI hardware and physical AI. Nvidia said its dedicated
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IBM's dual-architecture chip brings Arm-native AI to mainframes IBM used the Hot Chips 2026 conference to unveil the first concrete product to come out of the strategic partnership it signed with Arm back in April — a new dual-architecture processor designed to run both IBM'
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Running a large language model on your own machine means your prompts don't go to a cloud provider, there's no per-token bill, and the assistant still answers when the network drops. Here's how to go from zero to a working local model in
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A new rack-scale AI accelerator, a nine-figure robotics raise, and fresh evidence that chatbots quietly steer sensitive-health decisions — all in the last few hours. Cerebras has introduced the CS-4, a rack-scale AI accelerator its CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The
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Today's board has a clear thumbprint: the top of trending is dominated not by another chat wrapper but by agent harnesses that build a memory of you, ways to run coding agents for free, and the prompt libraries and plugin markets feeding them. Five fresh projects, none of
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Xiaomi unveiled three self-designed XRING chips at a Beijing technical briefing today, and while the flagship phone silicon made the news, the more telling move is the board stretching from handset SoCs into cars and on-device agents. The company is positioning its own silicon — not just its phones
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Xiaomi used a chip event in China on Monday to unveil the XRING O100, an accelerator built specifically for running large language models on-device — no cloud round-trip required. Announced alongside two siblings (the XRING O3 flagship processor, now in mass production, and the D100 autonomous-driving chip), the
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The FDA is weighing whether generative AI health products should pass "competency-based" exams — modeled on how human clinicians are trained, tested, and credentialed — before they can be marketed as medical devices. The idea sits in a discussion draft the agency's device center published this week,
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Anthropic's hardware push has a face on it now — and it's the person who built Google's answer to Nvidia. Bloomberg reports that Amir Salek, the executive who created and led Google's TPU program across its first seven generations during nine years there,
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OpenAI's Codex CLI has quietly grown the missing management layer for people who run several coding agents at once — an Agents Dashboard that groups every active session by project and state, plus a companion command that lets you message any session without opening it. A hands-on from
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OpenRouter's own usage data marks a quiet milestone in the agentic shift: since February, AI agents have consumed more tokens on the platform than the humans who set them loose — and agentic demand has grown about 14x while human usage is up just 2.8x. AI agents now