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July 2026
- Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund
- Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says
- TSMC taps Nvidia AI to speed up next-gen chipmaking
- Christina Qi left a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day. Her new startup just raised $97 million
- NCS launches enterprise AI platforms and products; deepens partnerships to accelerate AI-driven business transformation
- ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
- Hyundai wants to buy tens of thousands of Atlas robots from Boston Dynamics
- Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
- xAI released Grok 4.5 flagship model on July 9, 2026
- NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot
- Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
- ZML Releases Free LLMD Inference Server for Cross-Chip AI
- Grok 4.5 Is SpaceXAI's First Real Entry Into the Enterprise
- Mirantis First to Future-Proof AI Infrastructure with Integrated Day-Zero Support for Current and Next-Generation NVIDIA Architectures
- China plans limited Nvidia H200 purchases for top AI firms
- China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip
- DeepSeek Builds Own AI Chips To Bypass Export Caps
- Chinese Firms Leave Nvidia for Local AI Suppliers, Survey Shows
- NVIDIA brings Isaac GR00T model and Teleop framework to LeRobot
- Singapore files new charges in Nvidia chip fraud case
- Firmus Technologies and Nvidia announce 360MW AI factory campus in Batam Indonesia with up to 170000 GPUs
- Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
- Nvidia Server Delay Report Sends Asian Tech Stocks Sliding
- NVIDIA Blackwell inference software delivers up to 5× DeepSeek V4 performance improvement in one month, reducing token costs to one-fifth of prior levels
- Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation, led by Aramco Ventures
- Europe unveils a record 35 new NVIDIA AI supercomputers at ISC High Performance 2026
- Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026
- Magnificent 7 lose $2.3 trillion in June market value as AI spending fears mount
- Nvidia's AI chip sales stall in China as domestic chipmakers led by Huawei overtake global leader in home market
- Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B seed at $5.1B valuation
- NVIDIA TensorRT 11.0 ships with native multi-device inference for AI scaling
- NVIDIA holds 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders online
- Siemens and Humanoid deploy humanoids in industrial operations with Nvidia
- Locus Robotics Wins 2026 AI Breakthrough Award for Cognitive Robotics Innovation
- Samsung ChatGPT Enterprise: Codex Reaches Non-Developers in OpenAI's Biggest Korea Rollout
- Rumble Closes Acquisition of Northern Data
- KKR Launches Helix Digital Infrastructure with $10B to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Buildout
- Google revives diffusion research as open-weight DiffusionGemma model
- Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
- NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With New Agent Skills Powered by Cosmos 3
- Intel and Foxconn to partner on rack scale development
- Nvidia unveils RTX Spark CPU for AI agent PCs
May 2026
- NVIDIA bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
- Human Archive taps Indias gig economy to collect data for physical AI
- Pasqal and Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II file registration statement for proposed business combination
- Fleet Breaks Ground on 230MW Data Center Near Reno, Nevada
- Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
- NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2027
- Foxconn Confirms Cyberattack by Nitrogen Ransomware Group
- Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year
- SoftBank trims OpenAI margin loan to $6 billion after lenders push back on valuation
- ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx, and Eva Longoria as new investors
- ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company's monopoly: no one is coming for us
- NVIDIA Fast-Forwarded Co-Packaged Optics Five Years Ahead of Schedule, Arriving First With Its Feynman GPUs
- Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
April 2026
- SenseTime releases open-source image model that runs on Chinese chips
- Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech earns Microsoft WHQL certification
- OpenAI growth concerns trigger selloff in AI infrastructure stocks
- Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni multimodal model for agentic AI
- AlphaGo creator David Silver raises $1.1 billion for AI superintelligence startup
- Digi Power X Signs $19.6 Million Contract With SubQ AI for Blackwell GPU Capacity
- Nscale and Verne complete first phase of AI GPU deployment in Iceland
- Naver secures $270m government loan for South Korean AI data center expansion
- Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal with AWS for tens of millions of Graviton5 cores
- U.S. government's Intel stake surges to $36B after Q1 earnings beat
- Thinking Machines Lab hires talent from Meta as AI talent war escalates
- QumulusAI Secures $45 Million Convertible Note for GPU Cloud Expansion
- DeepSeek previews V4 AI model, claims parity with top US systems
- Oklo partners with Nvidia and Los Alamos on AI-driven nuclear infrastructure
- SoftBank seeks $10B margin loan against OpenAI stake
- SK Hynix reports record quarterly profit on AI memory demand
- Amazon commits up to $25B to Anthropic in $100B cloud deal
- Clarifai deletes 3M OkCupid photos after FTC privacy settlement
- Nvidia supplier Victory Giant surges 57% in Hong Kong trading debut
- Developer ports Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model to Apple Silicon
- Cursor in talks to raise $2 billion at $50 billion valuation
- Anthropic CEO meets White House officials amid cybersecurity model rollout
- Portugal approves national data center plan to attract hyperscale investment
- Nvidia alum's Manycore Tech soars 187% in Hong Kong debut with robotics pivot
- Simulation startup Antioch raises $8.5M to build 'Cursor for physical AI'
- Quant trading firm Jane Street signs $6B AI cloud deal with CoreWeave, makes $1B equity investment
- Microsoft launches cost-optimized MAI-Image-2-Efficient AI model at 41% lower price
- Linux Kernel Adopts Formal AI Policy Requiring Disclosure of Assisted Code
- CoreWeave Stock Rises 11 Percent on Anthropic Partnership for Claude AI Infrastructure
- Anthropic Signs Multiyear Deal to Rent CoreWeave AI Computing Capacity
- China AI Firm Discloses $92 Million in Banned Nvidia Chip Servers to Beijing
- Lumentum AI Demand Backfills Orders Through 2028
- Meta Releases New AI Model, Positioning for Competition
- SiFive secures $400 million to accelerate RISC-V chip development
- Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032
- Amazon CEO Defends $200 Billion AI Investment: "We're Not Going to Be Conservative"
- CoreWeave Signs $21 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Meta
- OpenAI pauses Stargate UK data center plan
- TSMC's CoWoS advanced chip packaging revenue grows at 80% CAGR as Nvidia reserves capacity
- Meta Outlines Long-Term Strategy for Custom AI Training Chips
- Major tech stocks rally following U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement
- Bain's Bridge Data Centres Removes Client From Malaysia Hub After US Export Probe
- Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing with Apple, Microsoft, Google to Secure Critical Infrastructure
- AI Data Center Builder Firmus Hits $5.5 Billion Valuation
- Uber expands AWS contract to run ride-sharing features on Amazon AI chips
- Tesla Rebuilds Silicon Team With Leadership Hire for AI6 and Dojo 3 Chips
- Broadcom extends AI chip partnerships with Google and Anthropic
- Nvidia-Backed Data Center Builder Firmus Raises $505 Million
- Nvidia-backed data center builder Firmus raises $505 million
- Apple approves AMD and Nvidia eGPU drivers for Mac, targeting AI workloads
- Nvidia demonstrates AI compression reducing GPU memory usage 85% without quality loss
- Apple adopts third-party GPU drivers for AI research on Apple Silicon
- Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
- Supermicro Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Smuggling Billions in Nvidia Servers to Restricted Parties
- Iran's IRGC Claims Strikes on Oracle Data Center in Dubai and Amazon Facility in Bahrain
- Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
- Chinese Optics Firm Innolight Confidentially Files for Up to $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO
March 2026
- OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Raises $3 Billion From Retail Investors
- Nvidia Commits $2 Billion to Marvell Technology in NVLink Fusion Partnership
- Marvell Stock Jumps 9% as Nvidia Takes $2 Billion Stake in Custom Chip Partner
- NVIDIA AI Ecosystem Expands as Marvell Joins Forces Through NVLink Fusion
- Planet Ventures invests in General Astronautics for space robotics
- Micron Stock Falls 10% After Earnings as Memory Chip Sell-Off Deepens
- Leaked Coatue Presentation Projects Anthropic at $1.995 Trillion Valuation by 2030, $14 Billion EBITDA Loss in 2026
- South Korea's Rebellions Raises $400 Million as AI Chip Race Heats Up
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Suno Releases v5.5 as Bandcamp Bans AI Content and Labels Face Deepening Dilemma
- Nebius AI Cloud Aether 3.5 release for real world AI
- ODC Completes $45M Series A Funding
- Trump Plans to Name Zuckerberg, Ellison, and Jensen Huang as US AI Ambassadors
- Worsening CPU Supply Constraints at Intel and AMD Add Fresh Pressure to AI Infrastructure Buildout
- TrendAI Agentic Governance Gateway introduced
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Been Achieved
- Senators Warren and Banks Call for Suspension of Nvidia Export Licenses to China and Southeast Asia
- Nvidia Has Become the AI Industry's Most Powerful Financier
- Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
- Kandou AI raises $225 million from SoftBank, Synopsys, and Maverick Silicon for AI chip development
- Nvidia agrees to sell 1 million GPUs and new Groq chips to AWS by end of 2027
- US charges Super Micro co-founder with smuggling billions in Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85%
- Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
- NVIDIA Emerald AI flexible AI factories grid assets collaboration
- Senators Warren and Blumenthal Probe Nvidia's $20 Billion Groq Deal Over Antitrust Concerns
- Jensen Huang proposes engineers get AI token budgets on top of base salary
- Amazon Trainium chip wins over Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple
- Nvidia and Amazon sign major chip deal for AI infrastructure
- Why Wall Street wasn't won over by Nvidia's big conference
- Huawei launches Ascend 950PR AI chip (Atlas 350 accelerator)
- Nvidia overhauls the data center for OpenClaw era
- Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs
- South Korea launches 'K-NVIDIA' push with $38B investment
- Compal Introduces High-Density NVIDIA HGX™ Rubin NVL8 Integrated Solution at GTC 2026
- Spectrum Deploys AI Infrastructure at the Network Edge Using NVIDIA AI Grid
- Supermicro NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage server for AI inference
- Nvidia expects $1 trillion+ from AI chips through 2027
- Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA Collaboration Accelerates U.S. Leadership in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing
- NVIDIA introduces DLSS 5 generative AI graphics technology for photorealism
- Quantinuum uses AI agents to discover new quantum optimization algorithms
- Cognizant Expands AI Infrastructure Capabilities with Launch of Cognizant AI Factory
- NVIDIA and Global Industrial Software Giants Bring Design, Engineering and Manufacturing Into the AI Era
- NVIDIA Expands Open Model Families to Power the Next Wave of Agentic, Physical and Healthcare AI
- Siemens launches Fuse EDA AI Agent for automation across semiconductor, 3D IC and PCB system workflows
- P-EAGLE: Faster LLM inference with Parallel Speculative Decoding in vLLM
- Reported Draft Rules Signal New Semiconductor Export Controls Framework
- Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production and shifts TSMC capacity
- Roboto Selected for the Physical AI Fellowship by AWS & NVIDIA
- NVIDIA AI-Q deep research agent reaches #1 on DeepResearch Bench I and II using Nemotron models
- New open models-Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
- NVIDIA Backs Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with Compute and Capital
- NVIDIA Reportedly Building 'NemoClaw' Enterprise AI Agent Platform
- New NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super Delivers 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI
- Synopsys Introduces Software-Defined Hardware-Assisted Verification to Enable AI Proliferation
- NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud
- Synopsys Outlines Vision for Engineering the Future
- vLLM Adds Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super for Multi-Agent AI
- Amber Semiconductor raises $30M Series C to accelerate vertical power delivery solutions for AI data centers
- How AI Is Driving Revenue, Cutting Costs and Boosting Productivity for Every Industry in 2026
- karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
- Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this 'Stargate Norway' startup hits $14.6B valuation
- ABB Robotics partners with NVIDIA Omniverse for industrial physical AI simulation
- University of Utah Launches $50M AI Factory with HPE and NVIDIA
- US regulators consider sweeping new AI chip export controls covering Nvidia and AMD
- NVIDIA to invest $4b in Lumentum and Coherent for AI optics
- Nvidia targets AI infrastructure with $2 billion photonics investment in Lumentum
- Oxa raises $103m in Series D first close
- Generate Arrives on Nasdaq Ready To Finally Show the World AI-Powered Medicines
February 2026
- SynaXG Proves the Art of the Possible with Fully Software-Defined AI-RAN on NVIDIA AI Aerial
- Chasing the Chip Smugglers
- Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected
- NVIDIA unveils AI-powered cybersecurity solution for operational technology and industrial control systems
- CES 2026 highlights industrial Physical AI and robotics as mainstream business reality
- Taalas raises $169M for model-specific AI chips
- Meta scoops up more of Nvidia's AI chip output
- Meta signs multigenerational AI infrastructure pact with Nvidia
- NVIDIA and Sarvam AI co-design optimizations delivering 4x inference gains for sovereign 30B multilingual models
- Meta to deploy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs plus Grace CPUs for hyperscale AI data centers
- SC Launch Inc. invests in human-centered AI startup QWERKY AI
- Adani pledges $100B for renewable AI data centers in India
- Gartner reports 2025 worldwide semiconductor revenue grew 21% to $793B, NVIDIA led by $53B
- Anthropic closes $30B Series G funding round at $380B post-money valuation
- SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers
- [News] US Reportedly Mulls Tariff Exemptions for Amazon, Google, Microsoft on TSMC-Made Chips
- Silicon Photonics In The Data Center: What A CMOS Exec Needs To Know
- Nvidia delays RTX 50-series Super refresh to prioritize AI chips amid RAM constraints
- Tower Semiconductor teams with NVIDIA on 1.6T silicon photonics for AI data centers
- Nvidia-OpenAI $100B deal appears to collapse
- Cyngn Accelerates Commercial Deployment of Physical AI with NVIDIA Isaac Sim
- Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA Partner to Build Industrial AI Platform Powering Virtual Twins
- Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia
January 2026
- SiFive and NVIDIA integrate NVLink Fusion into RISC-V data center solutions for AI
- Coda, Natural language quantum computing
- Jensen Huang on AI's 'Five-Layer Cake' at Davos
- New Sequoia leadership greenlights first Anthropic investment amid $25 billion raise
- China Blocks Nvidia's AI Chips Despite U.S. Export Loophole