Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code
Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code

Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change …

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it
Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm…

Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race
Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race

Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, …

Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators
Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators

Perplexity has become one of the first big AI names to say it will build on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, the general-purpose chip Nvidia is betting can carry it beyond the accelerators that made it the world’s most valuable company. The AI search firm said i…

South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe
South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe

A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is insta…

The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway
The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway

A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits…

China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home
China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home

Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU produc…

Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame

Nvidia’s next flagship AI machine has hit a wall, and the culprit is a single circuit board. The Kyber rack meant to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped to 2028. Research firm SemiAnalysis flagged the delay, and CNBC reported it. Kyber is not …

Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand

Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…

The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun

The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wedn…