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IBM's 0.7-Nanometer Chip Signals the Next Inflection Point in Semiconductor Physics

The company's nanostack architecture packs 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized die, but Asia's fab timelines suggest commercialization won't arrive before 2031.

By Kenji Watanabe·Jun 27, 2026·6 min read
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Telcos Chase the Agent Economy With Token Metering and Noise-Free Calls

ZTE's AIR Core prototype shows how carriers plan to sell AI traffic as a service, moving beyond bandwidth into computing, identity, and real

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Enterprise Token Budgets Hit Reality as Firms Rein in Casual AI Use

Consulting giants and multinationals are quietly pulling back on unlimited inference access after discovering that low-value tasks can burn

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Why OpenAI Built Its Own Inference Chip in Nine Months

Jalapeño, co-designed with Broadcom, represents a strategic pivot toward vertical integration in AI infrastructure - and a quiet admission t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Meta Stands Alone Among Frontier Labs as Pre-Release Review Talks Stall

While OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Microsoft have begun submitting unreleased models to the Commerce Department's new review unit, the

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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A Decades-Old Proxy Flaw and the AI Agent That Spotted It

Squidbleed, a 29-year-old memory leak in widely deployed caching software, went unnoticed through three decades of enterprise use - until a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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The American Datacenter Boom Keeps Hitting the Same Four Walls

Developers have announced 160 GW of new capacity by 2032, but half of what's due next year hasn't broken ground - and the math may not even

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Agentic AI Meets Supercomputing: Nvidia Rolls Out New Stack for Science

Los Alamos labs will debut autonomous agent-driven clusters as GPU maker unveils Vera Rubin platform, three software tools, and a pitch to t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Baidu Edges Past Waymo in New Autonomous Vehicle Rankings

A generative AI benchmarking platform reveals China's lead across robotaxi, trucking, and delivery categories, challenging assumptions about

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Midjourney Pivots to Healthcare Hardware With 60-Second Full-Body Scanner

The text-to-image AI company is building ultrasonic scanning spas and targeting a 2031 global rollout - a hardware gambit that raises questi

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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JD Trains 700,000 Couriers to Service the Robots That Will Replace Them

As Liu Qiangdong tells APEC that autonomous delivery will eliminate frontline jobs, the company's "Nirvana Plan" bets on retraining workers

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m
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Nobel Chemist Behind AlphaFold Moves From DeepMind to Anthropic

John Jumper's departure marks the second high-profile exit from Google's AI unit this week, raising questions about talent retention at the

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Tensordyne Bets Logarithmic Math Can Crack the AI Accelerator Market

The startup has taped out a 3nm chip that sidesteps conventional multiplication - but the real test lies in software maturity and deployment

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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When a Ban Becomes Free Advertising: The Anthropic Paradox

A US government order to pull two AI models over security fears may have inadvertently amplified the very brand it sought to constrain - rai

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 10m
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Why One Cloud Giant Is Rethinking Human Oversight of AI Agents

Amazon's security VP argues that asking people to approve every automated decision creates a false sense of safety - and that accountability

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Inside the Quiet Scramble to Scale Indium Phosphide Wafers for AI's Optical Future

Coherent's $650 million Texas expansion reflects a wager that copper's days at hyperscale are numbered - and that photonics supply chains mu

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Anthropic Tightens the Loop Between Claude Design and Code

The San Francisco AI lab's latest update lets its design assistant read local codebases and hand off work directly to the coding agent - a w

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Intel Ships Risk Wafers on 18A-P as Foundry Pivot Hinges on Performance Edge

The chipmaker has begun limited production of an enhanced node variant promising nine percent performance gains, betting foundry customers w

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Anthropic Reverses Course on Agent SDK Billing After Developer Pushback

The AI company paused plans to impose API-style metered fees on automation toolkit users just hours before the change was set to take effect

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Lawrence Livermore Bets on Cornelis Omni-Path to Break Nvidia's Grip on HPC Networking

A 952-node DOE cluster sidesteps InfiniBand and Slingshot with revived Intel-era interconnect tech, now delivering 400 Gbps and 91% scaling

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
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A Paralyzed Patient Now Works Full-Time With a Brain Implant That Translates Thought Into Speech

Researchers at UC Davis have kept a brain-computer interface running for three years in daily use, achieving 99 percent accuracy in controll

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Hyperscalers Bet the Datacenter on Arm as AI Workloads Rewrite Economics

From AWS to Google Cloud, the industry's largest operators are deploying custom Arm chips to balance performance, power, and agentic AI dema

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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TSMC's Chairman Shrugs Off Musk's Chip Plant Ambitions

As Elon Musk floats a wafer factory capable of one million units monthly, the world's leading foundry signals confidence in its position and

Wei Zhang ·   · 8m
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Huawei Cloud Rewrites the AI Infrastructure Playbook in China

While competitors slash token pricing, the Shenzhen giant is betting on a vertical-integration strategy that bundles compute, tooling, and s

Wei Zhang ·   · 8m
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Ant Group Tests AI Interface for Alipay Ahead of Potential Public Release

The financial super app's pivot to conversational AI could set a new template for how a billion-plus users interact with digital payments an

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m