AMD Unveils MI400 at Hot Chips as x86 Share Hits Highest Level Since 1995
The presentation at Hot Chips 2026, the annual conference where chip designers show their work, began with architecture diagrams and ended with a market statistic that summed up the industry’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Meta Plans Consumer AI Agent ‘Hatch’ Within Weeks, New Model in October
The product has a name, a launch window, and a price: Meta will release “Hatch,” a consumer AI agent, within weeks, with a target of early September, according to a…
Hugging Face in Sale Talks at $13 Billion Valuation
SAN FRANCISCO — The first sign that something was in motion came late Sunday, when bankers who had spent the weekend working the phones declined to say who was calling.…
Anthropic Says It Found Cause of Claude Outage, Works on Fix
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic posted an update Sunday saying it has identified why several of its most capable Claude models — including Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5 and Claude…
Anthropic’s Pricey Fable 5 Struggles to Win Corporate Spending
SAN FRANCISCO — When Anthropic released Fable 5, its most powerful model, the company’s sales team pitched it as the product that would justify the premium the market was placing…
Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz for Superintelligence Lab
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Luke Metz, a veteran AI researcher who spent years at OpenAI and briefly at the startup Thinking Machines, is joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, a person familiar…
