Corning is flying high thanks to the data center craze and insatiable demand for optical fiber. CEO Wendell Weeks is trying to ensure growth won’t stop when the AI bubble pops.

Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens all offer agentic AI for chip design, largely built on Nvidia’s stack, with varying claims of autonomy.

OpenAI says AI-assisted Jalapeño chip design “established a new baseline” for the industry, and there is already a lot of interest from others to learn how the company pulled it off.

How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.
Synopsys unveiled seven AgentEngineer agents on its new Autopilot platform, with general availability planned for the end of 2026.
Need a robot? Don’t have $100,000? Want more than a toy that dances? There are now multiple humanoid robots that fit the bill …
Intel’s Naga Chandrasekaran now claims that Intel 14A node will deliver performance ‘within 5%’ of TSMC’s A14 technology, a claim that requires a closer examination.

ASML calls EU authorities to help create demand for European chips as Europe’s share in its revenue drops to 0% in 2026.
Figure committed to spending billions on training data. Just 4 weeks after the announcement, the data has delivered a 6X boost in humanoid robot performance.
Humanoid robots will do about 50% of the tasks we want robots to do, CEO YT Jia told me. That’s why we need multiple robot form factors, he adds.