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SambaNova announced it reached an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic. This marks a recovery achieved in less than seven months after a $1.6 billion acquisition deal collapsed in December 2025, with an inference setup combining previous-generation NVIDIA H200 chips and the company's own RDUs underpinning the valuation.
Google is preparing a new feature that uses Quick Share to automatically save photos and videos from Android devices to Windows PCs. This would enable free local backups without going through the cloud, but it appears that Galaxy devices may be excluded from the feature. (119 characters)
Apple has signed a supply agreement with Broadcom worth over $30 billion, extending through 2031 and covering more than 15 billion US-manufactured chips. The major investment aims to secure a stable supply of wireless components and custom ASICs, strengthening America's semiconductor manufacturing base.
On July 8, 2026, OpenAI announced GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model, and made GPT-5.5-powered voice conversations freely available to free users as well. The enhancement of voice features used by 150 million people weekly could narrow the opportunities for standalone voice AI companies.
Samsung has begun mass production of the PM1763, a PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD designed to boost data transfer speeds in AI servers. Achieving more than double the read speed of its predecessor, the drive aims to eliminate bottlenecks and enable efficient operation on next-generation AI platforms. (119 characters)
Aalo Atomics' test reactor Aalo-X reached criticality eight months after construction began, becoming the fourth advanced reactor to do so against President Trump's executive-order goal of three. Its speed owes much to DOE authority outside the NRC, and challenges loom for commercial sites.
Instagui is an open-source tool that uses AI to parse CLI tools' help text and automatically generate a web-based GUI. Its distinguishing feature is that it can turn tools written in a variety of languages into GUIs without requiring developers to modify their code, while balancing ease of use with safety.
It has been revealed that the root cause of dendrite formation, which has hampered the commercialization of solid-state batteries, lies in the "space charge layer" that forms at the grain boundaries within the electrolyte. This finding—that this region traps electrons and triggers the deposition of metallic lithium—could become a critical key to dramatically advancing the safety and performance of next-generation batteries.
Tracing the background of DeepSeek's in-house AI inference chip plan reported by Reuters, and Zhipu AI's search for a custom ASIC. The focus is on the development gap: while Alibaba and Baidu have already reached mass production and IPO stages, both companies remain at an early conceptual stage.
US-based Deep Fission has delivered a prototype non-nuclear canister to its test site as it works toward realizing a concept for installing small reactors roughly one mile underground. Through verification of drilling and installation procedures using full-scale equipment, the company aims to demonstrate on-site the validity of its design and its operational capability for underground deployment.
