Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers cur…

Every app on my phone has decided I need AI, and none of them bothered to ask

Every app wants to become an AI app, even when users keep dismissing the invitation. Somehow, software that promises to understand us still can’t remember when we’ve said no.

A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.

Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country’s leading oncology research institutions. The platform, called Raidium Read, replaced Moffit…

Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial f…

Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price

One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it …

Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed
Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed

On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. …

TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.
TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.

TSMC posted record second-quarter revenue of over $40 billion, up 36% year on year, with net income rising 77%. The result should have been a triumph. Instead, shares fell 4%, dragging the Nasdaq 100 down 1.4% on Thursday and compounding losses from th…

Google’s AI just recreated the best goal ever by Pele that was never actually filmed

Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele’s legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel.

Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta

Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billi…

Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises
Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp ca…