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Solidigm is reportedly preparing a pre-IPO funding round ahead of a potential Nasdaq listing. The company may seek 5–10 trillion Korean won at an estimated valuation of around 50 trillion won, with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as lead underwriters.
IT之家 · 52d ago
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year over year, driven primarily by surging AI hardware demand. Data-center revenue reached $6.7 billion, more than doubling from a year earlier and representing 58% of total revenue, reinforcing AMD’s strategy of challenging Nvidia through a more open ecosystem.
The Next Web (TNW) · 52d ago
Taiyo Yuden raised its full-year earnings forecast by 50%, exceeding market expectations, as demand linked to AI data centers accelerates. The company is also bringing forward production-capacity expansion plans to support stronger demand.
Bloomberg Technology · 52d ago
A US appeals court overturned an injunction that had barred Perplexity’s AI shopping agent from accessing Amazon. The Ninth Circuit found that Amazon’s core legal claim did not hold, giving Perplexity an early win for software that browses and buys on behalf of users.
The Next Web (TNW) · 52d ago
Tencent is expanding international access to its flagship Hy3 large language model through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub. WorkBuddy users can access Hy3 for free until August 31, 2026.
Pandaily · 52d ago
Moonshot AI's Kimi has reportedly launched its Series G pre-IPO financing at a $50 billion valuation. Sources say investment demand surged after the release of the K3 model, with multiple institutions registering investment intentions.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 52d ago
At the 5th CCF Quantum Computing Conference in Shenzhen, six CAS and CAE academicians presented a national roadmap for AI-enabled quantum error correction. They also proposed a unified infrastructure integrating quantum computing, supercomputing, and AI.
Pandaily · 52d ago
Capital, home-appliance giants, and humanoid-robot startups are converging on China’s commercial-kitchen market. One projection estimates that the AI cooking-robot market could exceed 109.6 billion yuan by 2030.
Pandaily · 52d ago
Europe has struggled to produce frontier AI labs comparable to OpenAI or Google, but its established technology and industrial companies are benefiting from the AI boom. The analysis highlights how value may accrue to infrastructure, industrial systems, and supporting tools rather than only to model creators.
The Next Web (TNW) · 52d ago
A viral bamboo-cicada toy meme compared the synchronized reactions at Huawei product launches to a repetitive “wow” sound. Huawei’s mass takedown complaints were legally defensible but amplified the meme, triggering criticism that the company lacks internet-native public-relations judgment.
虎嗅 · 52d ago
Mainline llama.cpp now supports local Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base voice cloning through the llama-tts binary. It accepts WAV or MP3 speaker references and supports 10 languages, but server integration and broader model support are still unfinished.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 52d ago
A new study found that readers often could not distinguish AI-written stories from human-written ones and sometimes rated the AI versions higher. However, their preferences shifted after they learned whether a story was written by AI or a person.
Digital Trends · 52d ago
Chinese AI unicorn Moonshot AI is reportedly closing a new financing round by the end of the month at a valuation of up to US$50 billion. The company is also dismantling its offshore structure to prepare for a potential Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end.
SCMP Technology · 52d ago
Chinese robotics start-up X Square Robot has reportedly submitted a confidential filing for a Hong Kong IPO. Huatai Securities and Morgan Stanley are serving as sponsors, while other robotics companies including AgiBot and Galbot have also reportedly filed confidentially.
SCMP Technology · 52d ago
The article argues that enterprises value an AI system’s reliability floor more than its peak capability. Production deployment depends on consistent behavior, bounded permissions, traceability, and the ability to fail safely when evidence is insufficient or tools behave unexpectedly.
虎嗅 · 52d ago
DeepSeek has reportedly reopened discussions for a second funding round targeting RMB50 billion. The financing could value the company at approximately RMB500 billion before investment, but the terms and timing remain unfinalized.
TechNode · 52d ago
Sand.ai has open-sourced a 114B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts video generation model with 6B active parameters. The model reportedly generates 10 seconds of 1080p video at a cost of about RMB 0.5.
量子位 · 52d ago
Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has launched a live AI notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. The feature joins a growing group of workplace AI notetaking tools.
Wired AI · 52d ago
Moove has raised $250 million in a funding round led by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, reaching a $2.1 billion valuation. The vehicle-financing and fleet-management startup plans to expand into new markets and develop services for self-driving cars.
Bloomberg Technology · 52d ago
Researchers reportedly used repeated human encouragement and pressure to keep Claude working on a cryptographic attack. After three days, the model produced a new Mobius bridge approach, allegedly accelerating the attack by 800 times.
虎嗅 · 52d ago
The article argues that “knowing how to use AI” is a transitional skill, similar to knowing how to use the internet in the late 1990s. As AI becomes embedded in everyday software and workflows, the key competitive abilities will shift toward defining goals, validating outputs, redesigning tasks, and assigning responsibility.
虎嗅 · 52d ago
Counterpoint Research reports that Chinese memory maker CXMT achieved 716% quarterly revenue growth in Q2 2026, the fastest growth among global memory manufacturers. Expanding domestic demand and rapidly increasing capacity are helping CXMT challenge the Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron-led market structure.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 52d ago
Monolith Management, an investor in AI company MoonShot, is reportedly seeking to raise $500 million for a new fund focused on Chinese AI. The fundraising plan could expand capital availability for emerging Chinese AI companies and technologies.
Bloomberg Technology · 52d ago
DeepSeek V4 Flash ranked first on OpenRouter’s weekly model-usage chart for July 27 to August 2, processing 7.22 trillion tokens. On August 1, it processed 8 trillion tokens through OpenCode, including 5 trillion free-trial tokens and 3 trillion paid tokens.
TechNode · 52d ago
Microsoft is reportedly stopping internal “Tokenmaxxing” practices by enforcing fixed AI usage budgets. Employees or teams that exceed the limit may have to bear the additional cost, while GPT-5.6 is reportedly the internal default model.
量子位 · 52d ago
Anthropic is inviting applications for AI for Science grants focused on rare disease research. The announcement does not specify grant amounts, eligibility requirements, or application deadlines.
Anthropic Announcements · 52d ago
Anthropic announced Claude for Teachers, a new education-focused Claude offering. The announcement does not provide details about its features, pricing, availability, or supported integrations.
Anthropic Announcements · 52d ago
Anthropic announced an additional $20 million donation to Public First Action. The announcement provides no further details about the initiative’s programs or intended use of funds.
Anthropic Announcements · 52d ago
This article presents a 2026 guide to the hardware configurations required for locally deploying large models such as Kimi K3. It focuses on whether systems with only 8GB of memory can support local AI workloads and discusses the future cost of local AI devices.
Ifanr (爱范儿) · 52d ago