Artificial Intelligence
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HIVE Digital Technologies is tightening the link between Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure: the company says its mining operation is still the cash-generating foundation of the business even as BUZZ HPC scales GPU cloud services and HIVE prepares to wind down lower-output Bitcoin mining capacity in Sweden. The company’s September 10 update says HIVE had…
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Grayscale has turned a Bitcoin-miner equity fund into an AI-infrastructure fund, formally renaming the Grayscale Bitcoin Miners ETF (MNRS) as the Grayscale AI Compute ETF (GCPU). The September 22 announcement says GCPU now tracks the Indxx High Performance Computing Index and targets companies operating the physical infrastructure behind AI, including data centers, GPU cloud capacity…
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Efficient Computer has raised $97 million to push its unconventional dataflow processor architecture from battery-constrained robots and embedded systems toward the data center, while its first Electron E1 chips move into volume production. The company said on September 29 that the Series B values Efficient Computer at $650 million and brings total capital raised to…
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DeepSeek and Huawei are pushing the software side of China’s AI chip stack closer to the hardware, open-sourcing programming infrastructure for Huawei Ascend accelerators and expanding TileLang as a higher-level path for writing optimized AI kernels. Reuters reported on September 30 that DeepSeek and Huawei worked together on programming tools for Ascend AI chips, including…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has landed a $1.2 billion order from Vultr for AMD Helios AI Rack systems, giving HPE its first customer order for the new rack-scale AMD platform and putting another large U.S. cloud deployment behind open Ethernet-based AI infrastructure. The company announcement says Vultr will deploy the systems across its U.S. cloud data…
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Universal Robots has launched Gen 7, a redesigned collaborative-robot platform built to make physical-AI applications easier to deploy on factory floors. In the company’s September 14 announcement at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, Universal Robots introduced the g-Series, CB7 Core controller, TP7 Core teach pendant, SP7 Smart Panel and PolyScope X as one unified platform. A…
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Intrinsic has open-sourced Intrinsic Core, releasing foundational industrial-robotics software under Apache 2.0 so developers can build physical-AI systems on top of ROS-compatible control, perception, simulation and machine-tending tools. In the company’s September 22 announcement at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Intrinsic said the release is meant to shorten the path from prototype to production by packaging…
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OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to launch dots, a new class of always-on AI agents designed to keep working across apps, projects and cloud computers instead of waiting for a user to start each task manually. During the company’s annual developer event in San Francisco, OpenAI presented dots as persistent assistants that can pursue goals, carry…
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UL Solutions has launched a new certification program for direct-to-chip liquid-cooling subassemblies used in AI data centers, creating a formal test path for cold plates, manifolds and quick disconnects before those components are integrated into complete high-density cooling systems. The September 29 announcement says the program uses UL 4501, the Outline of Investigation for Safety,…
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Applied Materials and KIOXIA are moving next-generation memory research into the same collaborative semiconductor lab, targeting the materials, stacking and packaging problems that increasingly determine how much useful AI compute a system can deliver. The September 29 announcement says KIOXIA will join Applied Materials’ EPIC Center in Silicon Valley as an innovation partner. The companies…
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MIPS and Xcelsa Labs are applying artificial intelligence to a difficult semiconductor problem: optimizing production-scale processor logic quickly while proving that the rewritten design remains functionally equivalent to the reference. AI moves into custom-silicon optimization The companies announced a strategic, non-exclusive partnership on September 29 combining MIPS’ workload-focused RISC-V platforms with Xcelsa’s Apex design-optimization system.…
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Destro AI has raised $8 million in seed funding to scale a software layer designed to coordinate different warehouse robots, people and workflows as one operating system. The company announcement says the round was co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, while independent funding coverage confirms participation from CoFound Partners and says Destro plans to…
