Google Puts Four AI Chips in Orbit, Lets Them Work 15 Minutes at a Time
Project Suncatcher's first satellite is in space, where compute is abundant, sunlight is free, and the main engineering challenge is that there is nowhere for the heat to go.
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Report: Inspur's U.S. Subsidiary Exported Billions in Nvidia-Equipped Servers to Southeast Asia
The New York Times reported that Aivres, whose parent is on the Entity List but which is not itself listed, shipped at least $5.6 billion in technology, including more than $3 billion in Blackwell-equipped computers.
DeepSeek Open-Sources a Toolkit to Help Huawei Chips Do What Nvidia's Software Does, for Free
TileLang and a set of matching libraries now run on Huawei's Ascend accelerators. Whether anyone migrates from CUDA is, as ever, the part nobody can open-source.
AMD Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club on the Strength of a Bet Nobody's Cashed Yet
AMD stock is up 185% this year and just crossed a $1 trillion market cap, on data-center revenue about one-thirteenth the size of Nvidia's. Wall Street is pricing the GPU market AMD might win, not the one it currently has.
AI Data Center Gives Up on the Power Grid, Signs 20-Year Lease With the Plant Next Door
Facing a four-to-seven-year wait to connect to the Texas grid, a data center developer instead built next to a gas plant and signed directly with it — a workaround so common it now has its own acronym and its own equity stake for the utility.
Qualcomm Pays Amazon $4 Billion in Stock for the Privilege of Amazon Maybe Buying Its Chips
A multi-generation AI chip deal comes with a warrant for 25 million Qualcomm shares, vesting only if Amazon actually places up to $60 billion in orders it is under no obligation to place.
OpenAI Announces a Model That Runs 14x Faster, Declines to Announce What It Costs
Ultrafast mode delivers the full GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tokens per second on a chip the size of a dinner plate, and prices it in a unit the press release forgot to include.