Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD
A fresh $100 million and an interesting partnership with AMD has slightly bumped Cohere’s valuation up.
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Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch
Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world’s most valuable company (Nvidia’s at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible explanations. Huang claimed it had nothing to do with Trump, who famously […]
AMD’s AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling is now available in most FSR 3.1 games
AMD’s FSR 4 AI upscaling and frame-generation technology can now be enabled for “most games that support FSR 3.1 with DirectX 12,” the company says in the patch notes for its newest 25.9.1 driver. This support has been a big promise from AMD, but it’s taken awhile to come to fruition; FSR 4 first launched […]
After falling behind in generative AI, IBM and AMD look to quantum for an edge
As IBM and AMD look to regain ground after falling behind on the generative AI boom, the move could position them as key infrastructure players in a future where quantum and AI converge.
US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China
The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agreement with President Donald Trump just days before the Commerce Department […]
Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut
The global AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China but lacks key details
The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions.
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AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPU will set you back $11,699
AMD’s latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series of CPUs go on sale later this month, and the top option will be priced at $11,699. The 9000 WX-Series chips are designed for workstations, with the $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX shipping on July 23rd with 96 cores and 192 threads. Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro […]
xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars
Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path […]
Acer Swift 14 AI review: give it up for the ports
The Acer Swift 14 is all over AI the place. It has powerful chip options, exceptional battery life, and loads of ports for such a portable laptop. The keyboard and trackpad are solid, which is not always a given at any price. But the screen and webcam are mediocre, and the speakers are outright terrible. […]