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By 2027, 80% of premium smartphones will get AI agents — on Qualcomm and MediaTek chips

Alibaba, Baidu and Huawei move away from Nvidia in favor of their own AI accelerators

Mass resistance: why AI data centers are becoming enemies of local communities

Hardware·IEEE Spectrum AI

Electronic rings translate sign language into text with AI

Researchers have created electronic rings that use AI to translate sign languages into text with 88% accuracy, recognizing 200 words from bo

01Cerebras prepares for IPO at a $26.6 billion valuation thanks to its partnership with OpenAIMay 16, 2026·2 min 02Nvidia's Jensen Huang: AI creates a huge number of new jobsMay 16, 2026·3 min 03OpenAI prepares its own smartphone for a 2027 launchMay 16, 2026·2 min 04ASML CEO says there are no competitors in chipmaking equipment — and there won't beMay 16, 2026·2 min 05SAP invests $1.16 billion in German startup Prior Labs and takes control of AI agentsMay 16, 2026·2 min

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Samsung reached $1 trillion thanks to demand for AI chips

Samsung became the second Asian company after TSMC to surpass a $1 trillion market value thanks to demand for AI processors.

01SpaceX to invest up to $119 billion in Terafab chip plant in TexasMay 16, 2026·3 min 02Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI signed a deal for compute resourcesMay 16, 2026·3 min 03AI Architects Alarmed: Where the Cracks in the Industry's Foundation LieMay 16, 2026·3 min

Hardware·The Verge

SpaceX launches $55 billion Terafab AI chip factory

SpaceX plans to invest at least $55 billion in the giant Terafab chip factory in Texas, which will produce processors for AI computing at a

Nvidia invested $40 billion in AI startups in the first half of 2026

Nvidia spent $40 billion on investments in AI companies this year, positioning itself not just as a chipmaker, but as the central architect

Cowboy Space raises $275 million for data centers in space

Cowboy Space has raised $275 million to build orbital data centers that could help address the AI compute capacity crisis.

Hardware·Wired

CUDA makes Nvidia not a chipmaker, but a software company

Google and SpaceX discuss building data centers in Earth orbit

Musk's xAI launched 50 gas turbines without oversight in Mississippi

Campbell Brown on who decides what AI tells you

Hardware·The Verge

Americans reject AI data centers: 71% opposed, Gallup poll finds

Interactive map reveals Google's hidden data center strategy

Lake Tahoe seeks a new power supplier as NV Energy shifts capacity to AI data centers

OpenAI introduced MRC — a network protocol for 100,000-GPU AI training clusters

Hardware·OpenAI Blog

Sea rolls out Codex across its entire engineering organization and bets on AI-native development

Sea Limited is rolling out OpenAI Codex across its entire engineering organization and sees AI agents not as an autocomplete accelerator, bu