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OnePlus Is Betting a Built-In Fan Beats a Better Chip
OnePlus detailed the dual-airflow cooling fan inside its upcoming Ace 7 series on Tuesday — and early reports claim the cooled 3nm phone outran a 2nm flagship in sustained gaming.
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Apple Makes It Official: 'Pro and Tell' Is October 28 — and the 'MacBook Ultra' Is Dead on Arrival
Greg Joswiak's "Pro and tell" teaser turned a leaked invite into an official Apple event for October 28 — expected to debut the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, and an OLED iPad mini.
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Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Could Go on Sale November 6 — Skipping the M6 Entirely
After more than a decade of saying no to touch on Macs, Apple is reportedly putting its first touchscreen MacBook Pro on store tables November 6 — with a tandem OLED display, a Dynamic Island, and the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips it already sells.
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doubleAI Debuts "Code Execution Models" — AI That Speeds Up Software as It Runs
doubleAI, the new AI venture from Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua, unveiled a new category of AI — Code Execution Models — that live inside running programs and optimize machine instructions on the fly, claiming up to 38x speedups on real-world data pipelines.
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Tenstorrent Said No to an Acquisition — Then Raised $1.5B at a $6.2B Valuation to Take on Nvidia
Jim Keller's chip company more than doubled its valuation from 2024 and pulled in $1.5 billion led by Trace Capital and Innovation X — after reportedly walking away from takeover talks with Intel and Qualcomm. The bet: open RISC-V silicon, sold at every size.
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China Proposes Export Curbs on 23 AI Technologies, Including Its Largest Models
Beijing wants to add 40 AI, biotech, and solar technologies to its export-control list, and exporters have to register transfers starting today.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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Apple Invites Media to an October 28 Launch for Touchscreen MacBook Pros
Apple is bringing press to Los Angeles on October 28 for an all-day hands-on with touchscreen MacBooks, M6 Macs and a new iPad mini, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt for Open Agents
The chipmaker’s new open agent models span a 120B multimodal Super VL for servers and a 74B Bolt that fits in 24GB for local RTX and Spark systems.
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Two Workers Die After a Gas Incident at Intel's Kiryat Gat Fab
A tank failure at Intel's advanced chip plant in southern Israel released nitrogen trifluoride, killing two workers and leaving a third in serious condition.
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ASML Says Chipmakers Want to Book Machines for 2029 and 2030 After a €5B Quarter
ASML posted record Q3 sales of €11.7 billion and €5.0 billion in net income, and says some customers already want to place orders for 2029 and 2030.
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GlobalFoundries Selected to Operate Two New Fabs in New York With Up to $21B From Japan
Japan will fund up to $21 billion for two new 300mm fabs at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York site, with GF as technology provider and operator under a U.S.–Japan deal.
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iPhone Duo's A20 Pro Shows Up on Geekbench, Matching the iPhone 18 Pro
The first Geekbench 7 result for Apple's foldable scores 3986 single-core and 11067 multi-core, right in line with the iPhone 18 Pro.
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OpenAI's Compute Chief Sachin Katti Is Leaving, and an Ex-xAI Exec Takes Over
Katti, who ran OpenAI's data center and compute push for about a year, leaves November 15 and will stay on as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI, now runs the whole compute organization.
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AMD Unveils Helion, a 32,768-Core Rack Bet That AI Agents Need CPUs Too
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion — an open rack-scale blueprint built for running AI agents at hyperscale, with CPU-only configurations packing up to 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC cores.
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Nvidia Makes Run:ai Open Source for Its DSX AI Factory
Nvidia is open-sourcing the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform, the software it bought for about $700 million, as the foundation of its DSX AI Factory stack.
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Nvidia's China AI-chip share fell to 34% — but the shipment mix is the real story
IDC data shows Nvidia's share of China's data-centre AI chip market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026 while Huawei nearly doubled its shipments — and non-GPU accelerators overtook GPUs by volume for the first time.
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Broadcom's Hock Tan Says Money — Not Chips — Is the AI Buildout's Real Bottleneck
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told a Singapore conference that wafer and memory shortages are easing — and that the cost of capital, not chips, will be the biggest constraint on AI growth.
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, Its Third-Gen Custom AI Chip
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI chip, and plans to deploy more than a million of them next year.
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation for "Physical AI"
SiMa.ai raised $150M in Series C financing at a $1.45B valuation to scale its "Physical AI" platform for robots, vehicles, and drones.