DOE puts $215M on the table for a quantum computer that actually works
The US Energy Department's Genesis Q contest pays teams to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer with 100+ logical qubits, possibly by 2028.
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Huawei's Ascend 960 lands early, taking direct aim at Nvidia
Huawei revealed its Atlas 960 SuperPoD and Ascend 960 roadmap, a year after its last cluster. China's AI chip gap keeps closing.
Apple's foldable arrives with a 2nm chip built to run LLMs
The $1,999 iPhone Duo ships the A20 Pro — first 2nm phone chip, 32 Neural Engine cores, 2x faster FP8 for on-device LLMs.
DeepSeek buys 160,000 Huawei chips — but won't train on them
DeepSeek is buying $2.6B of Huawei silicon for a 1GW Inner Mongolia site — and still won't train on any of it.
Nvidia Is Now Shipping a Groq Chip — and It's 4x Faster
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX is in full production: 3,400 tokens/sec on 100K-context runs, 4x the nearest rival. Nebius takes it first.
AI could need 315 GW by 2033 — an 1,100% jump from today
A viral forecast puts AI power demand at 315 GW by 2033. Gartner's number for every data center on Earth in 2030 is 291 GW.
Singapore just booted a data center that runs on human neurons
A 20-unit rack of lab-grown brain cells at NUS draws under 1kW. The catch: the neurons die in six months.
AMD buys Taalas to etch AI models straight into silicon
AMD is buying Taalas, whose chips hardwire model weights into transistors — its answer to Nvidia's $20B Groq grab.
SpaceX and NVIDIA are putting Vera Rubin chips in orbit
Starmind's AI1 satellite will run NVIDIA's NVL72 rack in space, powered by solar, selling compute back down to Earth.
Anthropic confirms it's designing custom silicon for Claude
Anthropic now has an in-house chip team co-designing hardware and models, with Samsung in talks to actually build it.
SpaceX and NVIDIA Are Building a Million-Satellite AI Cloud
SpaceX's Starmind satellites run NVIDIA Rubin GPUs at 250kW peak each — first two prototypes fly in early 2027.
China is mass-producing DUV scanners. ASML fell 8%
A Shanghai firm started building immersion DUV lithography tools — 5 units this year, ~20 in 2027. Chip equipment stocks tanked.
The $1K local AI stack that actually runs in 2026
24GB GPU or Mac gets you a full local AI stack — fast inference, tab completion, speech-to-text, and no censorship.
NVIDIA's Ising: First Open AI Models to Fix Quantum Computers
NVIDIA launched Ising — open AI models that cut quantum calibration from days to hours and decode errors 2.5x faster.
Meta locks in Broadcom for MTIA chips through 2029
Meta and Broadcom extend their AI chip partnership to co-develop 2nm MTIA accelerators at multi-gigawatt scale.
Meta & Broadcom lock in MTIA chip deal through 2029
Meta extends its custom silicon push with Broadcom, targeting multi-gigawatt 2nm AI chip deployment across its apps.
Google's Gemma 4 brings multimodal AI to 8GB phones
Gemma 4's edge models pack vision, audio, and text AI into 1–3 GB RAM — meaning most phones from 2023+ qualify.
Anthropic Locks In Gigawatts of TPU Power as Revenue Hits $30B
Anthropic secured multiple gigawatts of Google TPU capacity via Broadcom, as its annualized revenue surpasses $30B.
Google Plans Space Data Centers — First Launch in 2027
Sundar Pichai says solar-powered orbital data centers will be routine within a decade, with pilot satellites launching in 2027.
AirLLM runs a 70B model on 4GB VRAM — no quantization
Layer-wise inference slashes VRAM needs by 97%, letting you run 70B models on a 4GB GPU with no quantization required.
Dev reimplements Google's TurboQuant solo — 35B on a MacBook
Google dropped TurboQuant (no code). A Texas dev rebuilt it from the math using Claude Code — 4.6x KV cache compression, 35B on Apple Silicon.
Run DeepSeek's 671B Model on 8 Mac Minis for $20K
Eight M4 Pro Mac Minis with 64GB RAM each can run DeepSeek-V3 671B locally — for less than one month of cloud rental.
Agent-Reach gives AI agents free eyes across the internet
Open-source CLI lets agents read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub and 11 more platforms — zero API fees, all local.
Project N.O.M.A.D: A Full Offline AI Survival Computer
Open-source system packs local AI, full Wikipedia, and offline maps into a self-contained, zero-internet setup.
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