Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it wo…

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later
Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later

Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wed…

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Scienc…

Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund
Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund

AI chip startup Etched has raised $800 million and revealed that its backers include trading firm Jane Street and VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm with a strategic partnership with TSMC. The company, which designs chips specifically for running AI …

Taiwan raids Super Micro’s office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens
Taiwan raids Super Micro’s office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens

Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office raided Super Micro Computer’s local office on Monday, widening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China through the company’s servers. The raid also targeted the residences of six…

Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they’ve found a winner with Micron.

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, an…

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds

Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and…

Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent
Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent

Micron Technology posted fiscal third-quarter revenue of nearly $42bn, quadrupling from just over $9bn a year earlier and beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin. The results, reported on Tuesday, confirm that the company riding the AI memory bo…