Nvidia to acquire AI chip maker Groq for roughly $20 billion in cash
TL;DR Nvidia has agreed to buy Groq, a nine-year-old designer of high-performance AI accelerator chips, for about $20 billion in…
AI Spending Boom Reaches a Turning Point as Returns Fail to Materialize
TL;DR Global corporate spending on AI has surged to nearly $1.5 trillion this year, prompting comparisons to major wartime expenditures…
How Mill Sealed an Amazon and Whole Foods Deal for Food Waste Bins
TL;DR Mill, the food-waste startup led by Matt Rogers, has reached an agreement with Amazon and Whole Foods to install…
Waymo details why its robotaxis stalled at intersections in SF blackout
TL;DR Waymo says a safety feature that asks human operators to confirm decisions led many of its robotaxis to pause…
How AMD Broke Into CPUs 50 Years Ago With an Intel 8080 Clone
TL;DR Fifty years ago AMD entered the microprocessor market by producing the Am9080, a reverse-engineered clone of Intel's 8080. The…
Microsoft unveils Agent Framework — open-source toolkit for AI agents and workflows
TL;DR Microsoft published the Agent Framework, an open-source SDK for building LLM-powered agents and graph-based multi-agent workflows for .NET and…
Beijing Tightens Rules to Keep Chatbots From Misbehaving Amid AI Worries
TL;DR A Wall Street Journal headline reports that Beijing is enforcing tougher rules to prevent chatbots from 'misbehaving.' The full…
South Korea mandates facial-recognition scans for new SIM registrations
TL;DR South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT announced a rule requiring facial-recognition verification when customers register new mobile accounts,…