Infrastructure

America's AI architects are converging on a chilling consensus: The pace of progress may soon demand a slowdown, but no single lab can afford to pull the brake alone.

Cloud provider Nscale agreed to acquire software startup Anyscale to help customers use AI computing power more efficiently.

The software giant reports stronger-than-expected financial results, driven by sustained demand for AI infrastructure and cloud services.

Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

This fall, with watchOS 27, Apple Watch will finally get access to Siri AI with a software update that turns your wrist into the most widely-used wearable AI platform on Earth. That’s not hyperbole. Siri AI on Apple Watch is arguably the most important feature to this year’s watchOS update.

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Mark Cuban and Michal Burry warn the AI boom is dangerously reliant on Nvidia Yahoo Finance

Recursive Superintelligence plans to release its first AI products around October.

Indosat said its AI Cloud business generated US$33 million in the first half, surpassing the business’s full-year 2025 revenue of US$28 million.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late.

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Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, marking one of the chipmaker’s largest funding deals of the AI boom.

For more than a decade, AI has advanced by training ever-larger models on ever-larger datasets. But as high-quality training data becomes harder to find and pretraining grows increasingly expensive, researchers are looking for new ways to keep foundation models improving.

Local backlash and reliability concerns are challenging the vision of an AI boom built quickly using large off-grid data centers. Why it matters: If giant projects stumble, trillions of dollars in AI investment and the industry's plans to rapidly expand data centers could be at risk.

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Among a range of factors leading to a wave of tech sector layoffs in 2026 is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and automation. Companies are reconfiguring their workforces to leverage AI for increased efficiency and reduced operating costs.

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives.

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The government wants $25-35 billion in data centre investment, and it just gathered some of the country’s most powerful business leaders to make the case.

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Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case returned to court last month, the lawyers were arguing not just about the breakdown of a…

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