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DeepSeek Eyes Chip Independence With In-House Inference Silicon

The Chinese AI startup is hiring engineers and talking to fabs as it seeks to reduce reliance on Huawei and NVIDIA - a move that could reshape cost dynamics in Asia's chip supply chain.

By Wei Zhang·Jul 8, 2026·6 min read
Startups

Xbox Targets One Billion Daily Users After Historic Restructuring

As Microsoft's gaming division announces its largest-ever workforce reduction, CEO Asha Sharma outlines an ambitious growth vision that stan

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Bidbus Raises $15M to Turn Used Car Sales Into a Dealer Bidding War

The LA startup claims its marketplace nets sellers $2,000-$3,000 more than instant-buy platforms by making dealerships compete in real time

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

American Autonomous Vehicles Face Real Combat Tests in Ukraine

Over 100 self-driving ATVs from Forterra have completed more than 1,100 missions in nine months, revealing both the promise and the limits o

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Startups

Norm Reaches Unicorn Status With $120M Series C for AI-Supervised Legal Practice

The startup's outcome-based billing model and agent-supervising-agent architecture challenge traditional law firm economics as enterprise cl

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Solos Cuts Weight in Half with Its New Camera-Free Smart Glasses

The AirGo A6 strips out visual sensors to hit 19 grams, positioning voice-driven AI as the lighter alternative to Meta's camera-heavy wearab

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Startups

SpaceXAI Emerges as Musk Consolidates AI Under Orbital Ambitions

The merged entity's new identity signals a strategic pivot toward space-based compute infrastructure, with implications for Asia's cloud pro

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Takes 15% Stake in New Zealand Infrastructure Firm

Japanese banking giant partners with Morrison to chase data center and energy infrastructure opportunities driven by AI expansion

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Startups

Growatt Returns to Hong Kong IPO Queue After Two Postponements

The Chinese inverter maker's third attempt reflects both capital market turbulence and a strategic pivot toward energy storage systems as so

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Products

Nothing's Latest Earbuds Bet on Audio Recording as the Next Budget Feature

The Ear (3a) introduces on-device voice capture and meeting transcription at $99, signaling a shift in what affordable wireless audio can de

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Products

Google Hands Creators a New Lens Into How Search Drives Social Traffic

Platform properties in Search Console now surface which queries funnel audiences to Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube - a bid to keep creato

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Startups

Hong Kong IPO Filing Reveals Young Founder's Strategy at Direct Drive Tech

At 31, the CEO has guided the precision motor manufacturer through listing approval as mainland firms eye offshore capital amid evolving cro

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Domestic Semiconductor Toolmakers in China Face Profitability Scrutiny Amid Stock Surge

A rally in chip equipment stocks driven by memory expansion bets now confronts the reality check of earnings disclosure, testing investor co

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Dev

Windows 11 Patch Tackles Runaway Permissions File Eating Hundreds of Gigabytes

Microsoft's June update addresses a storage leak in CapabilityAccessManager that ballooned to 500GB on some machines, exposing gaps in OS te

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Policy

Four States Push $1.4 Trillion Penalty Against Meta for Youth Harm Claims

California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey calculate damages based on young users exposed to allegedly addictive platform designs - a fig

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Dev

Four Pillars That Make AI Systems Work at Scale

While model hype cycles churn, the infrastructure beneath production AI stays constant - data pipelines, context design, governance, and the

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Microsoft Cuts 3,200 Xbox Jobs and Divests Five Studios in Division Reset

New CEO Asha Sharma implements sweeping restructuring following admission of "hard truths" about gaming unit performance

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
Startups

Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs as Commercial Division Bears Brunt of New Layoffs

The company eliminated 3,200 positions outside gaming alongside 1,600 Xbox cuts, while executives frame AI as a catalyst for workforce restr

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
Startups

Tencent Cuts Kuaishou Stake by 40% Days After Backing $3B Kling AI Round

The move drops Tencent below substantial shareholder threshold at Kuaishou even as it leads a massive financing for the platform's AI video

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Dev

One Engineer's Six-Month Quest to Build a GPU From Scratch Using 8,192 RISC-V Chips

A homebrew graphics cluster project reveals the brutal complexity hiding beneath modern semiconductor design, one redesigned PCB at a time.

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

AI Agent Executed a Ransomware Attack, But the Human Still Called the Shots

New details reveal the first AI-led ransomware strike required human involvement for target selection, infrastructure setup, and credential

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Samsung's Chip Profit Surge Masks Investor Fears Over Production Capacity

Seoul's semiconductor giant posted a nineteen-fold earnings jump on AI-driven memory demand, yet equity markets sold off sharply amid concer

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
Products

AMD's $4,000 Gamble on Local AI Workstations Arrives a Year Late

The Ryzen AI Halo promised accessible machine learning hardware for developers, but memory shortages and dated silicon have turned convenien

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Why Vercel Sees Model-Agent Separation as the Next Software Battleground

As coding agents drive 3 million deployments daily and 1 trillion tokens flow through its gateway, the cloud infrastructure company is betti

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Products

Apple Unlocks Voice Tuning in Siri Rebuild

Beta testers can now adjust speaking pace and emotional range as Cupertino overhauls its assistant around generative AI, though OpenAI's hea

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m