Intel’s Nova Lake Chips Clear USB4 and PCIe 5.0 Certification
Intel’s next generation of processors, code-named Nova Lake, has passed compliance and interoperability testing for two standards that desktop and laptop buyers will notice, according to certification records that hardware…
AI Firms and a Union Form a Coalition to Defend Data Center Growth
Artificial intelligence companies, private equity firms and a building-trades union have joined a multi-million-dollar lobbying coalition to make the public case for data center construction, the Financial Times reported on…
Ken Griffin Gives $3 Billion to Carnegie Mellon, the Largest University Gift on Record
Ken Griffin, the founder and chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel, has given $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest gift from an individual to an institution of…
LG and Microsoft Put a Conversational Assistant on the ThinQ ON Hub
LG Electronics is pairing its smart home hardware with Microsoft’s voice technology to build an assistant that can hold a conversation instead of taking a command. The company showed the…
Oracle Adds Agents to Automate Financial Crime Investigations
Oracle’s financial services arm has begun selling software agents that take over the most repetitive parts of a financial crime investigation. The company introduced Oracle Nexus Case Flow and Oracle…
IBM’s Quantum Processor Finishes a Sampling Task in 19 Seconds
A commercially available quantum processor has completed a computation that its collaborators estimate would take a classical supercomputer about 110 years. IBM’s Nighthawk r2 processor generated one million samples of…
Microsoft Delivers Windows 11 26H2 as One Small Download
Microsoft began pushing Windows 11 26H2, the operating system’s 2026 feature update, to devices running the 24H2 and 25H2 releases on September 29. The update arrives through KB5121794, an enablement…
Broadcom and Toppan Open a Substrate Plant in Singapore
The scarcest thing in the AI supply chain is not always the processor. Sometimes it is the slice of resin, copper and glass the processor is mounted on. On Tuesday,…
Netlist Asks Trade Panel to Ban Micron Chips Used in AI Servers
Netlist Inc. is small by the standards of the semiconductor industry, but for years it has turned a portfolio of memory patents into a weapon against the largest names in…
Tesla Lines Up a $30 Billion Credit Facility for Cybercab and Optimus
For years Tesla presented itself as the automaker that did not need banks. It raised money by selling shares and cars, kept a cash pile large enough to fund its…

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