Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM
Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI model serving space for extremely low-latency, high-throughput inference, enabling services like OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.…
6 Sol Ultrafast tier.
At Hot Chips 2026, the company revealed the next two generations of it…
It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS…
Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped
The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them, including laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, eight unnamed sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO in a report published today.…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick favors a structure that would cap du…
production, four of the sources said, and Commerce officials have indi…
A phase-in period is under discussion, and the framework could still c…
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.
Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV.…
The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - …
The Bravia 6 OLED comes in five sizes from 48 up to 83 inches and is p…
It has a 120Hz panel, runs on Google TV with Gemini, supports Dolby Vi…
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents.…
A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that…
At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to…
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year.…
The news comes months after the Supreme Court said in a February rulin…
In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted t…
" In the initial version of that tariff note, Panic explained that it …
Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?
One thousand Swiss citizens voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health across Switzerland.…
The results of this unique experiment were reported in a new paper pub…
“Our results show that how soil is managed can significantly affect bo…
“Healthy, biologically active soil is crucial for fertility, nutrient …
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
FinTechs Bet on AI and Lending to Drive Modernization
Earnings season is showing that bank modernization demand is landing in faster payments, cloud and digital banking, and artificial intelligence tools aimed at credit, fraud and other defined operating workflows.…
The pattern is visible in results and management commentary from Jack …
Jack Henry reported bundled core, digital and card wins and higher fas…
FIS reported continued growth across banking and payments, as well as …
BMW’s new iX3 EV is racking up orders, even in China, despite selling only an image
With global orders for the new iX3 near 100,000, BMW dealers in China are reportedly overwhelmed by demand, with tens of thousands of pre-orders coming in in less than a week after it went on sale.