France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face antitrust charges in France, and any decision could […]
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 he casts as a promotion rather than a threat. “These agentic systems are […]
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 Parasail will be its first customer, with the system due […]
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, codenamed Moonraker, that would let Alexa handle complex, multistep tasks, Business Insider reports, […]
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 it plans to run its agent workloads on Vera, joining […]
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 installing RNGD servers at Equinix’s LS2 datacentre in Lisbon, it announced on Tuesday. The name […]
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 on a US Department of Defense blacklist of Chinese military companies, CNBC reports. […]
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 their momentum this quarter. June revenue alone reached NT$1.33tn (roughly $45bn), up 21.6% year on year. The company added […]
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 Wednesday and 5.4% on Thursday, a two-session decline of roughly 12%. While chip stocks […]
