TSMC Wafer Prices Surge on AI Boom as Competitors Lag
SemiAnalysis data shows TSMC wafer prices and profit margins surged with AI chip demand, leaving foundry competitors like Samsung and UMC far behind.
Baseten Deploys Runway Video Models to Dedicated Clouds
Runway and Baseten partner to bring Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models to dedicated enterprise cloud clusters with direct weight licensing.
Meta Confirms Muse Spark Open Weights
Meta confirmed it will release open weights for Muse Spark soon, while keeping its flagship Muse Wonder models locked behind proprietary APIs.
Intel Uses AI Agents to Speed Up Chip Design Rules
Intel showed how AI agents cut PDK design rule cycles by more than half and navigated a 350-dimension fab problem with 10^700 combinations in months.
Boston Dynamics Targets One-Hour Atlas Assembly
Boston Dynamics reveals its in-house CNC shop in Waltham as it targets cutting electric Atlas assembly time from one day down to one hour by 2027.
NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch Countdown Begins for October 16
NVIDIA opened the official countdown for RTX Spark PCs shipping October 16, packing Blackwell and Grace silicon with up to 128 GB of unified memory.
Nvidia Pledges $250M in Compute for UK AI Safety Research
Nvidia committed $250M in compute time to UK AI safety research over five years, backing labs at Oxford, UCL, and Imperial without direct cash grants.
Hermes Agent v0.22.0 Adds Key-Free Setup and Local Runs
Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.22.0, adding key-free onboarding, local execution via llama.cpp, and app connectors while cutting core code by 33%.
Google AI Studio Apps Can Now Install via Play Store
Google now lets you build Android apps in Google AI Studio and install them privately through Google Play without developer fees or USB cables.
DeepMind and Singapore Test On-Device Scam Detection
Google DeepMind and Singapore test a fine-tuned Gemma model to block chat scams locally without breaking encryption or sharing data with cloud servers.