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China Just Demonstrated a Fiber Network Transmitting 51.3 Terabits Per Second Without a Single Signal Repeater. Here Is Why That Number Rewrites What Anyone Thought Was Possible for Global Internet Infrastructure
China’s fiber network has reached a major milestone after researchers transmitted 51.3 terabits per second across 206.5 kilometers without using…
SambaNova Just Raised $1 Billion at an $11 Billion Valuation to Challenge Nvidia on AI Inference. The Bet Is That Speed at the Edge Matters More Than Raw Training Power and Enterprises Are Starting to Agree.
SambaNova has secured $1 billion in new funding at an $11 billion post money valuation as the AI chip company…
Meta’s Custom AI Chip Iris Is Going Into Production in September. The Company Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year Has Decided the Cost of Depending on Nvidia Is No Longer Worth It.
Meta is preparing to begin production of its latest custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip in September as the company pushes…
Japan Is Running Out of Workers and Has Decided Robots Are the Only Realistic Answer. The Plan to Deploy 10 Million of Them by 2040 Is the Most Ambitious Industrial Policy Any Country Has Announced This Decade
Japan’s AI strategy has entered a bold new phase as the country confronts a worsening labor shortage. Instead of depending…
Meta Is Planning to Sell Its Excess AI Compute to Outside Customers. The Company That Was Rationed Gemini Access by Google Just Positioned Itself to Become a Cloud Provider.
Just days after reports revealed that Google had limited Meta’s access to Gemini because of soaring demand for AI computing…
Export Controls Were Supposed to Keep Advanced AI Chips Out of China. Taiwan’s Smuggling Investigation Suggests That Is Not How It Is Playing Out
AI chips are once again at the center of the U.S.-China technology race after Taiwan uncovered an alleged smuggling operation…
South Korea Just Committed $880 Billion to Semiconductors and AI Data Centers. Samsung and SK Hynix Are at the Center of the Largest Coordinated Tech Investment Any Country Has Ever Announced.
South Korea has unveiled plans for at least $880 billion (£666 billion) in investment to build out its chip manufacturing…
Google Cloud Is Finally Making a Serious Bet on Africa. Here Is What the AI Infrastructure Expansion Actually Means for Founders and Developers on the Continent
AI infrastructure is becoming a key driver of Africa’s digital economy and Google Cloud has made its biggest commitment yet. …
Nvidia Has Dominated AI Data Centers for Years. Qualcomm Just Announced It Wants That Market Too. Here Is Whether It Can Win
Qualcomm’s AI data center ambitions have entered a new phase. Qualcomm wants a meaningful share of the rapidly expanding AI…
The AI Training Bottleneck Just Got a Lot Smaller. Amazon’s New AWS Tools Could Change Who Can Afford to Build Frontier Models
The AI training bottleneck continues to limit who can build frontier AI models. Today, developers need enormous computing power, complex…
