… This also sets the stage for another Silicon Valley showdown. While Apple doesn’t compete with Nvidia directly, its chip strategy may pit Ternus against Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for the industry bragging rights on AI primacy. …
… He thinks they’re doing it for the same reason he is: working in Silicon Valley can be draining, and speaking to a room full of bright-eyed Stanford students can remind them why they started. “I think everybody, to some degree, feels a sense of nostalgia for their college days,” Midha said. “They w… …
… She says that having AI tweak its own silicon and code could form a recursive kind of AI improvement. “We are moving into this new regime where we can just spend more compute to design faster and better chips—creating a kind of scaling law for chip design.” What do you think of AI designing its own… …
… OpenAI president Greg Brockman cited AI’s popularity issues as a core reason for his increased political spending. The acquisition makes OpenAI the latest Silicon Valley player to try owning and operating a news business. …
… HiSilicon says it’s also improving chip performance by accounting for nanoscale electronic phenomena; designing chips to work well together; and developing interconnects that speed chip-to-chip communication, a key trick for training large AI models. “For both AI training and inference, the win is … …
… Cesar Fernandez, the head of US state and local government relations at Anthropic, told WIRED in a statement that SB 315 will help “establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet.” However, other Silicon Valley trade groups have pushed back against the legislation. …
… Ming-Chi Kuo, the famed Apple analyst, pointed out on X that Ternus’ most important move in recent years “was leading the Mac transition from x86 Intel to ARM Apple’s own Apple Silicon .” This was a “system- and platform-level transition, essentially a brain transplant” that required “a very high l… …
… The change comes as Google and other AI labs rush to respond to the rise of highly capable agents like OpenClaw. While these tools are mostly used by developers today, Silicon Valley believes they could soon power general-purpose assistants for people and businesses. …
… When we met at EF’s office in West London last week, Clegg said he believes the classroom will be among the first settings to be radically improved by AI. But he was less cheerful about the politics of the AI race, which he says will further concentrate power in Silicon Valley. …
… Apple has removed the 1-TB option from the configuration list on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, meaning it now starts with 2 TB for $3,899. In 2026, Apple increased both the starting storage capacity and price across the entire MacBook line, down to the 13-inch MacBook Air . …