Robot Startup Generalist Raises $200 Million at $3 Billion Valuation
On Aug. 26, Generalist, a robotics startup building foundation models for machines, said it has raised about $200 million in an extension of its Series B round, led by venture…
Anthropic Closes San Francisco Office on Strike Warning
On Aug. 25, Anthropic told employees at its San Francisco headquarters to work from home after receiving notice that its security team could strike, an abrupt reminder of how quickly…
TSMC Tilts Advanced Packaging Capacity Toward AMD
TSMC is reallocating capacity at its CoWoS advanced-packaging lines, giving AMD a larger share of the industry’s most sought-after AI packaging resource while trimming the allotment reserved for Nvidia, according…
Samsung Foundry Begins Mass Production of Nvidia’s Groq 3 LPX
On Aug. 25, Samsung Electronics said its foundry division has begun full-scale production of the Groq 3 LPX, an inference chip Nvidia designed for AI workloads, a contract win that…
OpenAI Says Its Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia’s Blackwell
On Aug. 25, OpenAI released the first benchmark data for Jalapeño, the in-house inference chip it has been developing for more than two years, and the numbers landed like a…
Samsung Confirms HBM4E Hits 16 Gbps as Memory Race Accelerates
The number was brief, and the implications were not. Samsung confirmed on Aug. 24 that its HBM4E memory, the next generation of the high-bandwidth chips used in AI processors, has…
Anthropic Launches $35 Million Open-Source Fund and Expands Mythos 5 Access
The announcement on Aug. 24 paired a checkbook with a security update. Anthropic said it is launching a $35 million fund to support open-source AI development, and it expanded access…
Microsoft AI Marketing Chief Andrea Mallard Departs
The marketing chief of Microsoft’s AI business is leaving. Andrea Mallard, who led marketing for the company’s AI products, including Copilot and the Azure AI platform, has departed, according to…
Intel Unveils Agentic AI Architecture at Hot Chips as x86 Fight Intensifies
The word repeated most often in Intel’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation was not “performance” or “core” but “agent.” Intel, the company that defined the personal computer era and then lost…