Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
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 · 32 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 · 33 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 · 34 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 · 34 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 · 34 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 · 34 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 · 35 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 · 35 DAYS AGO
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs — nearly 13% of its workforce — over the past year, citing AI deployment, while spending $1.8 billion on restructuring costs as it races to build out AI infrastructure.
TechEchelon Staff · 36 DAYS AGO
The NHTSA has opened a special crash investigation after a Tesla Model 3 struck a home in Katy, Texas, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. The driver told authorities he was using Tesla's partially automated driving systems at the time.
Sara Montes de Oca · 36 DAYS AGO
Alphabet shares fell nearly 6% on Monday after senior Google DeepMind researcher John Jumper and Google engineering VP Noam Shazeer announced departures for rivals, highlighting mounting AI talent competition.
Jay Goldberg · 36 DAYS AGO
SpaceX struck a computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI worth up to $6.3 billion, while its stock fell 9% on Monday, marking a third straight day of losses following a record IPO debut on June 12.
Marc Sabatini · 36 DAYS AGO
Chevron and Microsoft have signed a 20-year natural gas supply agreement for Project Kilby, a planned 2.7-gigawatt data center in West Texas's Reeves County expected to begin receiving power in 2028.
Sara Montes de Oca · 36 DAYS AGO
Tencent has begun a small-scale test of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded inside WeChat, as the company looks to compete with Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other rivals in China's intensifying AI market.
Jay Goldberg · 37 DAYS AGO
A shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips is squeezing the four major hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta — driving up AI infrastructure costs while memory and storage stocks surge 41% over the past month.
Sara Montes de Oca · 37 DAYS AGO
Apple's iOS 27 distributes artificial intelligence across eight features built into existing apps, including a bill-splitting tool in Apple Cash, automated password updates, and natural-language Shortcuts — with a public release expected this fall.
Sara Montes de Oca · 37 DAYS AGO
Apple's iOS 27 will bring a range of AI-powered features to iPhone this fall, including receipt-based bill splitting in Apple Cash, autonomous password updates, and smart notification grouping in the Home app — all running through Apple Intelligence.
Sara Montes de Oca · 37 DAYS AGO
Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, the latest departure to rock Alphabet's AI research division amid an intensifying industry-wide talent war.
Sara Montes de Oca · 38 DAYS AGO
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