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1. Firebird Takes Its AI Factory Platform Global With a 2-Gigawatt Pipeline

   Unite.AI · 2026-08-08

   Firebird opened its first AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8, 2026, and used the ceremony to lay out the rest of the map: a second market in Kazakhstan with 125 megawatts

2. NVIDIA AI Releases NOOA: An Object-Oriented Python Framework That Turns an AI Agent Into a Single Python Class

   MarkTechPost · 2026-08-07

   NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents.

3. Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

   NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-08-08

   The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia

4. d-Matrix Buys Wallaroo to Orchestrate Inference Across Chips

   Unite.AI · 2026-08-03

   d-Matrix has acquired Wallaroo.ai, a maker of software for deploying and orchestrating AI inference, in a deal the Santa Clara chip company announced on August 3, 2026.

5. ASML Supplier Zeiss Says It Can Handle Demand for Key AI Parts

   Bloomberg · 2026-08-03

   One of the critical suppliers in the semiconductor industry, Germany’s Zeiss Group, pushed back on investor concerns about bottlenecks in the AI supply chain and said it’s

6. Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model

   MarkTechPost · 2026-08-02

   Inkling-Small matches Inkling at a quarter the size, and its NVFP4 checkpoint runs on one NVIDIA B300 GPU

7. Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development

   Hacker News · 2026-08-02

   Hey HN, I am 16y/o and have been working on Sprocket for a while. It's an open-source AI agent that beats every other agent out there at both hardware and software.And here's the

8. NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework

   MarkTechPost · 2026-08-02

   Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue.

9. Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking

   MarkTechPost · 2026-08-01

   Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine.

10. China Just Released the Largest Open-Weight AI Model Ever I Tried It on Real Code Before I Believed…

    Towards AI · 2026-08-01

    Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, taught itself to design a chip to run a smaller version of itself, and paused new signups three days…

11. Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-31

    Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp.

12. Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO of Conceivable Life Sciences – Interview Series

    Unite.AI · 2026-07-31

    Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO, Conceivable Life Sciences - is an engineer and serial entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience spanning technology

13. Kioxia’s Outlook Miss Clouds Optimism About Memory Chip Boom

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-31

    Kioxia Holdings Corp. issued a disappointing earnings outlook after results missed expectations, a sign that an unprecedented AI-driven surge in flash memory prices may be

14. Why Record Earnings Aren't Good Enough for AI, Chip Investors

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-31

    Chipmakers are delivering record earnings, yet investor skepticism is dragging stocks lower.

15. LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

    WIRED · 2026-07-30

    Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.

16. Samsung Chip Profit Soars 250-Fold During Relentless AI Buildout

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Samsung Electronics Co. posted a 250-fold surge in chip profits and now expects memory shortages to worsen next year

17. The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-07-29

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

18. ASMPT Chief Sees AI Equipment Demand Intact as Bubble Fears Rise

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Chip gear maker ASMPT Ltd.’s top boss said that long-term demand for AI-driven equipment remains firmly intact, pushing back against against growing investor fears of an AI bubble.

19. FTSE 100 hits record high despite AI sell-off

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-29

    Strong corporate results buoy market as investors move money away from tech and semiconductor stocks London’s FTSE 100 stock index has touched a fresh high

20. AI Stock Selloff Accelerates as Investors Rotate Out of Chip Winners

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    After piling into chip stocks and so-called AI winners, investors are now rushing to cut this exposure and rebalance portfolios.

21. SK Hynix’s Profit Jump Misses Lofty AI Expectations

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose 557%, but missed expectations, fueling fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating.

22. Goldman Says Japan’s AI Stock Trade ‘Not Broken’ After Rout

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    Goldman Sachs Japan Co. says a sharp selloff in Japan’s artificial intelligence-related stocks has created a buying opportunity

23. ASM Outlook Beats Estimates as AI Boosts Demand for Chip Tools

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    ASM International NV forecast revenue for the third quarter that beat analyst estimates, with the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out driving demand for the

24. Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in widening China chip smuggling probe

    The Decoder · 2026-07-28

    Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters.

25. AI’s Circular Financing Is Back With Nvidia’s Latest Deals

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    Investors worry that increasingly circular deals might artificially inflate demand and magnify losses if AI fails to turn profits in the future.

26. South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-28

    Samsung and SK Hynix fall by more than 10% amid renewed fears over AI spending and Chinese competition <a href="

27. Nvidia Staff Detained by Taiwan in China Chip Smuggling Case

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia Corp. employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China

28. Nobody Can Explain Why This AI-Designed Chip Works. They Built It Anyway

    Towards AI · 2026-07-27

    Engineers have successfully fabricated and tested an AI-generated chip architecture, demonstrating functionality despite a lack of complete theoretical understanding behind its

29. Is open source the answer to rogue AI agents? Nvidia's new alliance says yes

    ZDNet · 2026-07-27

    As AI cybersecurity incidents ramp up, companies are racing to find a fix.

30. Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-27

    After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.

31. NVIDIA launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' initiative to improve cyber defense

    Engadget · 2026-07-27

    NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with the aim to improve cybersecurity.

32. Nvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-27

    Nvidia Corp. is working on a fresh round of AI deals worth more than $750 billion, accelerating investments that skeptics have warned are artificially inflating demand and

33. NVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-07-27

    The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems.

34. Samsung Inks $200 Billion Chip Supply with Broadcom

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-25

    Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.

35. Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in Naver and Expand SK Group Accord

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-24

    Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea

36. Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

    AI News · 2026-07-24

    Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models.

37. Nvidia, Microsoft Lead Call for Open-Weight AI Models After Kimi

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-24

    A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models

38. 250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem

    ZDNet · 2026-07-24

    Chips, servers, cables, and more could compound an already massive problem - here's who it affects and what's being done about it.

39. AMD, Alphabet Find Good Results Aren’t Good Enough for Investors

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-24

    Investors are a bit numb to positive results as fears of an AI bubble return

40. How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing

    MarkTechPost · 2026-07-24

    In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs.