Tech Talk

IBM's dual-ISA core runs ARM and z/Architecture natively on 2nm silicon at 5.7GHz, Intel's Diamond Rapids packs 256 P-cores, and OpenAI bets big on agents while Hugging Face eyes a $13B exit. Hot Chips 2026 unpacked.

From the humble transistor to Nvidia's $100K GB300 DGX Station, we trace the silicon powering modern AI. Plus, how AI-optimized energy storage reshapes power grids, and why Twitch streamers are suing Amazon over AI training data.

Inherent's AI teammate just out-replicated Anthropic and OpenAI at reproducing research papers, LinkedIn deploys multi-agent code review at scale, and Cloudflare's Kitesurf reinvents browser automation on the edge—plus why Wi-Fi 8 stopped chasing speed.

A perfect-10 Entra ID bypass under active attack, Micron's $10B bet on post-DRAM research, Starcloud's orbital data centers, and Apple's bizarre camera-equipped AirPods — plus why software was never doomed to be slow.

Tesla's Robotaxi goes fully unsupervised in Austin as Waymo counters with a custom 5nm, 1,000-TOPS chip. Plus Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition reshapes AI model routing, and US Bank probes LockBit's ransomware claims.

Moderna and Merck's mRNA cancer vaccine clears Phase 3 in melanoma, Chinese firms nail reusable rocket landings, and feds warn AI-generated code is now hacking critical infrastructure controllers in the wild.

Cerebras' CS-4 wafer-scale chip redefines AI training limits, Anthro Energy's Louisville factory targets solid-state batteries, and China's Cambricon and Huawei aim to supply 90% of its AI accelerators—plus Beijing's rising space ambitions.

AI shifts from copilots to autonomous agent swarms that debug and ship code, Nvidia stakes $21B in SpaceX, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol redefines vision AI, and a breach dumps millions of Azure tenant records onto the market.

Stripe's $7B OpenRouter grab consolidates AI API routing, a 9.8-severity macOS Screen Sharing flaw hands attackers root access, Google taps AMD for next-gen TPUs, and Zhipu claims its model out-hunts Anthropic and OpenAI on bugs.

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, the ChainDrop worm poisons 444 npm packages, AWS bakes native vector search into DynamoDB, and the US Navy 3D-prints combat drones at sea. Builders, take note.