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OpenAI has just revealed a new 'intelligence processor' chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models,

Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a 33M seed led by a16z — Ornn raised 33 m

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end — Paris

Vercel has increased the concurrent build limit for Pro team accounts from a lower threshold to 500 simultaneous builds, enabling teams to scale their deployment pipelines and handle larger volumes of

Casey Newton / Platformer: Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more — Matt Garman argu

On June 11th, 2026, over 350 developers, researchers, and engineers came together at The Midway in San Francisco for Vector Space Day, our first event of its kind in the United States and our first ma

Reuters: Qualcomm expects 15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to 40B by 2029, up from 22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ after hours — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said it expec

Lauren Goode / Wired: Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 — Modular, one of

Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference softwar

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028 — Qualcomm shares jumped 15% in extende

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with p

Tom Phillips / IGN: Rockstar says physical copies of GTA 6 will contain a digital download code, not a disc; physical copies release on November 12, ahead of the November 19 launch — Keep it on the do

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost 79.99, or 99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight — The game

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to 42M — When longti

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised 100M led by Summit Partners at a 1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 — By s

The Information: SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise 800M to 1B, sources say at a ~10B valuation, up from 2B in February — AI server chips that effectively

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital — The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility

Reuters: SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off — SK Hynix's (000660.KS) overta

Bloomberg: SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity — Memory Chip Frenzy Sends SK

Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. more than quadrupled its revenue growth in the most recent quarter as it continued to benefit from surging demand linked to the artificial intelligence industr

Bloomberg: Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic — Two leading artificial intellig

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts — Anthropic

Moneycontrol: Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job — A prolific angel investor k

Financial Times: Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised 1B at a $22B valuation in May — Rapidly growing company is increas

Reuters: Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to p

Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes me

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B — Chinese artific

The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment comp

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per pa

The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pr

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, bu

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstru

Right out of the box, the new Google Home Speaker passed a couple of important tests. Even with the volume at 100 percent and music blaring out of the speaker, it quickly ducked the audio and listened

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool — The US Foo

As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to reach the coast of Japan. Once there, the roughly 200-foot-long craft, bui

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a 107M seed led by Arch — Trase, an AI

Slate Auto's Blank Slate is a stripped-down, two-seat electric pickup truck starting at $24,950, featuring a 65 kWh LFP battery pack with 205 miles of range and 181 horsepower. The vehicle achieves it

New research explores how game theory can optimize NVIDIA Dynamo disaggregated serving architectures, revealing critical performance thresholds and reducing worst-case AI inference latency by up to 7.

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV fun

Jack Healy / New York Times: Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash — The upse

Vercel Flags now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication by default for Vercel deployments, eliminating the need to manually configure SDK Keys. This security improvement simplifies the setup pr

Vultr has integrated AMD Enterprise AI Software into its VKE (Vultr Kubernetes Engine) marketplace, enabling customers to deploy AI solutions more easily on Vultr's cloud infrastructure. This integrat

The California Science Center in Los Angeles will open the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on November 13, revealing Space Shuttle Endeavour in its launch position. This will be the only place

This Databricks blog post explores how organizations can leverage their existing data assets to find answers to business questions without requiring additional data collection or external sources. The

This article discusses why Databricks leaders argue that the frontier AI ecosystem should remain open rather than closed, likely covering topics such as open-source AI development, the benefits of col