Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference
Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference

Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027,…

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year. For many enterprises, this investment has…

California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China

U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia-powered servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore, allegedly using false paperwork to conceal their final destination

Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business
Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business

Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the…

Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads

More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group. More …

Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-E…

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei repli…

Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter
Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net …

Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief execu…

California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC

OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric …