Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
… Its competitor, OpenAI, recently announced a new custom chip called Jalapeño designed for large language model inference in data centers. OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop the chip. …
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Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
… While chip export controls in the US are a major reason this is an urgent concern for DeepSeek, US-based AI companies are making similar chip plans. For example, OpenAI and Broadcom jointly announced Jalapeño , the former’s first chip designed for inference at scale, just a couple of weeks ago. …
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor
… But the chip’s biggest advantage for AI developers and some gamers may be the system’s pool of unified memory. …
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
… Both companies claim Jalapeño chips will be deployed in data centers by the end of this year. Samuel Axon is the editorial lead for tech and gaming coverage at Ars Technica. He covers AI, software development, gaming, entertainment, and mixed reality. …
Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
In a splashy move that signals that Taiwan remains irreplaceable to the AI industry’s short-term and long-term goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that his chip company will invest $150 billion a year to make sure Taiwan remains at the “epicenter” of the “AI revolution.” “This is whe… …
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
… The company’s financial filing disclosed work with Musk’s company Tesla on the development of “Macrohard,” which it describes as “an agentic AI platform designed to be capable of fully emulating digital workflows and augmenting human operation of computers using sophisticated autonomous agents.” Th… …
Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit
… Likely, officials in Taiwan are having “complex conversations” about “how to placate Trump,” Schiffer said, while coming to terms with the “new world” in which the US can’t afford to defend Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield” forever. “Obviously Taipei wants to maintain market share,” Schiffer said. “But Tai… …
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
… It also designs its own AI chips, and the latest Tensor 8i and 8t are supposed to be more efficient for AI data centers. Where things go from here is uncertain. People are clearly more sensitive to the high cost and lack of profit in AI, so Google’s stock price may be in for a minor correction. …
Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack
… First, antitrust laws must be updated to allow AI firms to share information about evolving Chinese tactics to deter more threats. Second, the US needs more export controls on chips to hamstring Chinese access to advanced compute so that they simply can’t train on US model outputs. …
Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
… It readily admits the Tensor chips are not optimized for winning benchmarks, but it claims the new Tensor G6 offers 25 percent faster web browsing and up to 20 percent better power efficiency. This seven-core Arm chip sports the same middling GPU as last year’s G5, along with a new MediaTek modem. …