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ASML CEO says there are no competitors in chipmaking equipment — and there won't be

SAP invests $1.16 billion in German startup Prior Labs and takes control of AI agents

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

01Nvidia invested $40 billion in AI startups in the first half of 2026May 16, 2026·3 min 02Cowboy Space raises $275 million for data centers in spaceMay 16, 2026·3 min 03CUDA makes Nvidia not a chipmaker, but a software companyMay 16, 2026·3 min 04Google and SpaceX discuss building data centers in Earth orbitMay 16, 2026·3 min 05Data Centers Arrive in Rural America: The Story of a Shuttered Paper Mill in MaineMay 16, 2026·2 min

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Hardware·TechCrunch

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

xAI's Colossus 2 data center uses nearly 50 gas turbines for power, prompting a lawsuit over the lack of proper regulatory oversight.

01Campbell Brown on who decides what AI tells youMay 16, 2026·3 min 02Americans reject AI data centers: 71% opposed, Gallup poll findsMay 16, 2026·2 min 03Interactive map reveals Google's hidden data center strategyMay 16, 2026·3 min

Hardware·TechCrunch

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

The Lake Tahoe resort region must find an electricity supplier by May 2027: amid Nevada’s AI data center boom, available capacity is going t

Hardware·OpenAI Blog

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

Through the Open Compute Project, OpenAI released the MRC protocol, which distributes traffic across hundreds of routes and helps large AI c

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, but as a way to reshape development, testing, and CI/CD.

Hardware·Hugging Face Blog

Hardware·3DNews AI

Micron and the memory market: industry participants do not expect significant price declines for several more years

May 3, 2026·2 min

Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

EU launches antitrust probe into the full AI technology chain of the largest corporations

May 3, 2026·2 min

Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Voya curbs investment in data center loans over doubts about AI demand

May 2, 2026·2 min

H Company released Holotron-12B — a model for agents with a 2x speed increase

Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Meta is preparing four generations of MTIA chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and AMD

May 2, 2026·2 min

TSMC could lose power due to the US-Iran conflict, putting the chip market at risk

May 2, 2026·2 min

Micron to build second memory packaging facility in Taiwan next to Powerchip plant

YADRO trained the KVADRA_T tablet to recognize multiple objects in a frame in 20 ms

Hardware·CNews AI

Arkady Volozh's Nebius seeks to raise up to $4.6 billion for AI data centers and GPU purchases

Nebius, led by Arkady Volozh, is preparing a convertible bond offering of up to $4.6 billion to expand its AI infrastructure after a major c

Hardware·Habr AI

ChatGPT and Google are changing education: will AI replace tutors and teachers

ChatGPT, Photomath and Socratic are turning the AI tutor into a mass-market product, but along with convenient explanations and low-cost acc