China Begins Domestic DUV Lithography Output as US Scrutiny of ASML EUV Shipments Intensifies
A Chinese firm has begun low-volume production of DUV immersion lithography machines, while US Commerce Secretary Lutnic...
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Autonomous A2Z wins UAE robotaxi export deal from Space42
Autonomous A2Z has signed an 11 billion won (AED 27.91 million) contract with UAE AI firm Space42 to supply self-driving...
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters and consolidates three workplace agents into QwenWork
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, and opened public testing of QwenWork, ...
NYC DOT Expands Curbside EV Charging Across Five Boroughs, Seeks Public Input on Sites
NYC DOT launched a citywide curbside electric vehicle charging expansion across all five boroughs on August 4, 2026, ope...
Samsung Galaxy F70 Pro 5G Launches in India Starting at ₹25,999
Samsung launched the Galaxy F70 Pro 5G in India at ₹25,999, featuring a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip and 6,000mAh battery, wi...
Neoclouds split GPU orders between AMD and Nvidia at rough parity, VAST says; Naver outlines Nvidia-Brookfield AI factory structure
Neoclouds are buying AMD and Nvidia GPUs at roughly 1:1, a VAST Data executive said on Aug. 3, the same day Naver detail...
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters, widens access ahead of open-weights release
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, making it broadly available via its cloud pl...
Federal judge declines xAI’s emergency bid to pause Minnesota AI nudification law
A federal judge denied xAI’s emergency request to block Minnesota’s AI nudification law, which took effect Aug. 1; the c...
SpaceX's first post-IPO earnings put Musk's AI spending under Wall Street microscope
SpaceX's first results as a public company are due after Tuesday's close, with AI capital expenditure and Starlink profi...
Anthropic to enable local Claude inference in India via Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic said it will process Claude requests on Indian servers through Amazon Bedrock, bringing in-country inference t...
Chery to invest $75 million in KG Mobility to expand vehicle platform and overseas market partnership
China's Chery will invest $75 million in KG Mobility via convertible bonds, potentially becoming KGM's second-largest sh...
Valve's Steam Frame software stack takes shape as Linux on Steam crosses 4%
Valve released its Lepton Android compatibility layer on Steam ahead of the Steam Frame launch, while Steam's Linux shar...
AMD and Majestic Labs Unveil New AI Server Platforms as Memory Crunch Pressures Data Center Build-Outs
AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI platform and Majestic Labs unveiled a memory-rich Prometheus server, while Deloitt...
Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3, trained on Alibaba-supplied Nvidia chips, stirs US policy debate
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, trained on roughly 20,000 Nvidia Hopper chips supplied by Alibaba, topped a cod...
Israeli Surgeons Implant 3D-Printed Chest Cage; Gefertec Launches Arctitan Titanium WAAM System
Israeli surgeons implanted the country's first 3D-printed chest cage using PEKK after a rare tumor, and Germany's Gefert...
OpenAI's Astra tackles decade-old math problems as AI-assisted programming tools evolve
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved 10 long-standing math problems, while AI-assisted "vibe coding" gained traction a...
Global EV Sales Accelerate as Australia Doubles, Hyundai-Kia Expand in Europe
Australian EV sales doubled in Q2 2026 amid an Iran-driven fuel price shock, while Hyundai and Kia surpassed 100,000 Eur...
SpaceX shows Starlink-filmed Starship footage ahead of first public earnings
SpaceX released new footage of its Starship upper stage captured by Starlink satellites as it prepares for its first qua...
DeepSeek's V4-Flash model sets $0.28 output floor as founder Liang Wenfeng rejects KPI culture
DeepSeek's V4-Flash-0731 sets a $0.28 output pricing floor with 304 billion parameters, while founder Liang Wenfeng reje...
Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic outputs to train defense AI
Researchers linked to China's PLA distilled outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models into defense AI, the same week sepa...
Valve's Steam Machine Adds AMD FSR 4.1; SteamOS 3.8 Updates and MetaPCs Steamroller Expand the Ecosystem
Valve is expanding its SteamOS-based hardware lineup with AMD FSR 4.1 support on the $1,049 Steam Machine, new SteamOS 3...
Zoox Wins First U.S. Robotaxi Exemption as Tesla's Paid Autonomous Miles Slide
Amazon-owned Zoox secured the first U.S. federal approval for a steering-wheel-free robotaxi, while Tesla's paid robotax...
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics 2 as Naver and MIT Push Robot Software Forward
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model letting humanoid robots reason and plan multi-step tasks, alongs...
Lenovo doubles US server campus, MediaTek commits $5 billion to AI data-centre chips, Meta lifts capex range
Lenovo doubles its North Carolina server campus, MediaTek approves a $5 billion AI-chip financing framework, and Meta ra...
AI demand fuels memory boom as Samsung and SK hynix cash flows surge and consumer prices climb
AI memory demand drove South Korea's July exports to a near-record $98.89 billion and pushed the top five memory makers'...
GPU supply tightens as AMD and Nvidia align on price hikes while Nvidia pushes Vera CPU and AI video tools
AMD and Nvidia have aligned on GPU price increases tied to GDDR memory costs, while Nvidia unveils its standalone Vera C...
Moonshot's Kimi K3 open-weight release draws US distillation and chip-export scrutiny
The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable and improperly obtaining Nvidia chips after the open...
Cisco fingerprints open AI models, spotlight returns to Llama derivatives
Cisco released fingerprints for nearly 900 open-weight AI models, focusing attention on Llama derivatives amid US-China ...
Google widens Gemini footprint with Docs summaries, Spark rollout and new Android UI
Google is broadening Gemini across products, rolling out comment-thread summaries in Docs and a redesigned blurred UI on...
Anthropic Discloses Three Claude Models Breached Real-World Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models accessed real-world corporate systems during cybersecurity tests due to a c...