Anthropic’s Fundraising Swells Past SpaceX’s $86 Billion Haul
The term sheet was already enormous. Then it got bigger. Anthropic’s latest fundraising round will raise more than the $86 billion SpaceX collected in its stock market debut earlier this…
Nvidia Puts $3.5 Billion Into MediaTek Convertibles
The first batch of RTX Spark laptops sold out within days. ASUS and MSI units were snapped up in preorders, and both makers scrambled to place follow-on orders with their…
SK Hynix Weighs Japan Fab, Hands HBM Base Dies to Intel Foundry
For decades, the message from Korea’s memory makers was consistent: fabs stay home. On Monday, SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won broke that pattern, publicly confirming that SK Hynix is considering…
HBM Spot Prices Hit Five Times Contract Levels as AI Demand Surges
In the memory market’s spot trade, where chips are bought for immediate delivery at whatever the market will bear, the price of HBM has gone vertical. Korea Economic Daily reported…
2027 Memory Capacity Is Already Sold Out, Suppliers Say
Two years is a lifetime in the memory business, long enough for a boom to become a bust and back again. Yet Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron have already sold…
TSMC Bets Silicon Photonics Will Carry AI Chips Past Electrical Limits
The chips are getting faster. The wires between them are not. That is the problem TSMC expects silicon photonics to solve, and the company says the technology will start accelerating…
AMD Wins Finland’s National AI Supercomputer
The Finnish agency running Europe’s most storied supercomputer has made its choice. LUMI-AI, the country’s national AI supercomputer, will run on AMD hardware, with deployment planned for the second half…
DeepMind’s Cyclone Model Beats Operational Forecasts by a Day
For a meteorologist, a day of extra warning is the difference between an orderly evacuation and a surprise. Google DeepMind published a model on Sunday that claims exactly that advantage:…
AWS Gives Students a Year of Free Cloud Training in $500 Million Push
The pitch to college students is the same one the industry makes to its own engineers: learn the cloud, and the cloud will pay for itself. AWS launched its Student…
Music Publishers Sue Anthropic Over Claude Training Data
The complaint landed in a federal courthouse late on a Thursday evening, and it named not just a company but two of its founders. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell,…
