Micron Begins $9.3 Billion Hiroshima Fab Build for AI Memory
HIROSHIMA — The ground-breaking ceremony on July 4 drew a modest crowd: local officials, plant managers, and a delegation from Micron Technology’s headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Behind the podium, construction…
Nvidia Supplier Unimicron Seeks $1.4 Billion in Global Share Sale
TAIPEI — The company that makes the circuit boards underneath Nvidia’s most expensive chips is raising money while the window is open. Unimicron Technology, one of the main suppliers of…
AMD Backs Japanese Self-Driving Startup Turing as It Moves Off Nvidia Chips
TOKYO — The garage is in Tokyo, the ambition is global, and the chips are increasingly from Santa Clara’s other chipmaker. Turing, the Japanese startup developing fully autonomous driving software,…
AI Takes Half of New Unicorn Roster
The numbers from the first half of 2026, compiled by data providers and reported by TechCrunch, tell a simple story: nearly 90 companies crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold for…
GitHub Puts Anthropic’s Claude Inside Copilot
GitHub said on July 5 that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 is now available inside Copilot, its AI coding tool — the first time a model from outside the Microsoft ecosystem…
Meta Tells Staff Its AI Agents Are Behind Target
In an internal meeting in the first week of July, Meta executives delivered a message to employees that the company’s public statements had only hinted at: development of AI agents…
Midjourney Demands Studios Disclose Their AI Use
In a court filing that reframes a sprawling copyright battle, Midjourney is asking a judge to force Hollywood’s biggest studios to open their own books on artificial intelligence. The company…
Codex Passes Five Million Weekly Users as OpenAI Turns to India
The number appeared without fanfare in an OpenAI post on a Sunday: five million. That is the weekly count of developers and non-developers now using Codex, the company’s coding agent,…
Anthropic’s Weekend: Pricing, Security and Trust
The post appeared in a developer forum late on a Friday night, and within hours it was making the rounds inside Anthropic’s internal channels. A user had benchmarked Claude Sonnet…
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol Preview Ahead of Regulatory Review
The name is a sun reference, and the timing is pointed. OpenAI has released a preview version of its next flagship model under the name GPT-5.6 Sol, giving customers an…
