Waymo has published what is in the boot of its robotaxis. A blog post on Thursday set out the architecture of its onboard computer, introduced a custom 5-nanometer chip of its own design, and named the seven suppliers it builds the system with. The com…
Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a faster kind of fibre for AI data centres. The Orlando-based company announced the funding and the commercial deal on Tuesday, in a pres…
Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. T…
Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report. Two people familiar with the matter said the increases follow a surge in demand for AI chips. That demand is …
Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Its stock jumped as much as 14 percent on …
The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Or…
Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in…
Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed u…
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the …
A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and …