Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday
Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San Francisco on Wednesday, the first Surface built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. The laptop is designed to let AI agents run on the device rat…

SpaceX reportedly in talks to borrow $40B to buy Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX reportedly in talks to borrow $40B to buy Nvidia AI chips

SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today, Bloomberg reported that the talks are underway, citing people familiar with the matter. Both reports rely on unnamed sources, and none of th…

Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the comp…

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.

Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike
Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Nvidia’s Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99. But […]

OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design
OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design

OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interv…

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei repli…

Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter
Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net …

Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m
Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHI…

Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports
Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports

Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir …