China’s government has signalled it may let firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 5500 chip. The Information reported the news on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. China’s tech ministry recently asked some firms…
US chipmaker GlobalFoundries says demand for Chinese optical modules is strong as more data centres are built, one of its top bosses told the South China Morning Post. Ann Cao reported the interview from Shanghai on Sunday. Optical modules turn data in…
As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital systems, the boundaries between communications, computing infrastructure, virtualization, software development, and artificial intelligence are becoming less distinct. For smaller…
Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Zi…
Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes…
Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief …
The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress au…
Precision Neuroscience has raised $250m in a Series D round for its brain-computer interface, the New York company announced on Thursday. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, the Ackman Oxman Institute and an unnamed life sciences fund led the round. The rou…
Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a to…
Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Next to the enzyme’s gene sits a long run of repeating DNA that resembles a CRISPR array. The company does not yet kn…