Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Tesla is testing a production Cybercab without a steering wheel or pedals in Austin, Texas, with a safety monitor aboard — a step toward the company's broader robotaxi ambitions as a key federal regulatory change nears approval.
Jay Goldberg · 126 DAYS AGO
Waymo and Uber have ended their Phoenix robotaxi pilot — a deployment of just over a dozen vehicles — while expanding their partnership to hundreds of autonomous vehicles in Austin and Atlanta.
Marc Sabatini · 127 DAYS AGO
Salesforce is acquiring AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion, its most prominent deal among at least six acquisitions since December. Wall Street remains divided on whether the buying spree can reverse a stock that is down roughly 40% for the year.
Marc Sabatini · 127 DAYS AGO
Omen AI has closed a $31 million Series A to bring real-time spectrometer-based fluid monitoring to liquid-cooled data center racks, addressing bacterial contamination risks that can force multi-hour, multi-million-dollar system shutdowns.
Marc Sabatini · 127 DAYS AGO
South Korea announced an 800 trillion won ($518 billion) national semiconductor project, directing Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to each build two new fabrication plants in the country's southwest as part of a broad AI-era infrastructure push.
Jay Goldberg · 128 DAYS AGO
Suno has launched Spark, an incubator program offering grants and mentorship to unsigned artists, but contractual terms requiring broad licensing rights, a class action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause have drawn sharp criticism from the musician community.
TechEchelon Staff · 128 DAYS AGO
China's LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has topped the TOP500 rankings, becoming the first system to surpass 2,000 exaflops and displacing the U.S.-built El Capitan — despite American export restrictions on advanced chips.
TechEchelon Staff · 128 DAYS AGO
The Pentagon has unveiled Agent Network, an agentic-AI system built with Palantir and Lumbra that aims to deliver targeting options to U.S. commanders within seconds, even as experts warn that governing autonomous AI agents at scale may prove nearly impossible.
Sara Montes de Oca · 128 DAYS AGO
GE Vernova's Greenville, South Carolina, gas turbine factory is running at full capacity through 2029 as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle race to secure reliable power for AI data centers, with turbine prices up 300% in three years.
TechEchelon Staff · 129 DAYS AGO
The Commerce Department authorized Anthropic to redeploy its Claude Mythos 5 model to more than 100 U.S. companies and federal agencies on Friday, partially easing a two-week government-imposed access freeze that also affected its Fable 5 model.
Marc Sabatini · 130 DAYS AGO
OpenAI launched a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 model suite on Friday, comprising three models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — less than 24 hours after agreeing to delay the release at the request of the Trump administration.
Marc Sabatini · 130 DAYS AGO
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, saying more than half of its users already manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox — a move that also closes the chapter on the Skiff email infrastructure Notion acquired in 2024.
TechEchelon Staff · 131 DAYS AGO
Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU with Meta as a launch customer, acquired AI software startup Modular for a reported ~$3.92 billion, and nearly doubled its 2029 non-handset revenue forecast to $40 billion, sending shares up 15%.
Sara Montes de Oca · 132 DAYS AGO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's annual stockholder meeting that smuggled-chip AI data centers are a "dead end," while reaffirming that national security takes precedence over commercial opportunity in restricted markets like China.
TechEchelon Staff · 132 DAYS AGO
xCures has closed a $46 million Series B led by Innovius Capital, with iGrow, GKCC, Spring Mountain Capital, and existing investors joining. The healthcare-data company says the round will accelerate its Clinical Clarity Engine, which converts more than 300 million medical records sourced from 550,000-plus U.S. healthcare locations into decision-ready data for clinicians and value-based care organizations.
Jay Goldberg · 132 DAYS AGO
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, their first jointly developed AI chip, on Wednesday, with initial deployment targeted for the end of 2026 as OpenAI moves to diversify beyond Nvidia's GPUs and build out its own silicon stack.
Marc Sabatini · 132 DAYS AGO
Cerebras Systems reported $193.4 million in first-quarter revenue, up 92% year over year, in the AI chipmaker's first earnings release since its Nasdaq IPO in May 2026. Shares fell 7% in after-hours trading despite the strong top-line results.
Marc Sabatini · 133 DAYS AGO
AI memory startup Engram raised $98 million from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia, claiming its models can match frontier AI labs using up to 100 times fewer tokens, as enterprises look to cut soaring AI costs.
Marc Sabatini · 133 DAYS AGO
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