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Intel agrees to buy Mobileye for $15.3bn

Intel agreed to acquire Jerusalem-based Mobileye for $63.54 a share in cash, valuing it at about $15.3bn, with the combined self-driving unit…

Intel buys AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2bn

Intel acquired Israeli AI accelerator maker Habana Labs for about $2bn.

A new benchmark tests whether agents can turn an expert’s plan into a fast GPU kernel

D2K-Bench, published through Alibaba’s Qwen GitHub organisation, runs 26 kernel-writing tasks twice, with and without expert design guidance, and finds the guidance…

Nvidia adds a 64GB DGX Spark, and you need two to match the old one

Nvidia has introduced a 64GB version of its GB10 desktop AI machine from $4,999, with half the memory of the original and…

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin racks go live on CoreWeave, with Cognition first in line

CoreWeave has made Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 systems available to customers, with Devin maker Cognition reporting up to 4.8 times the token…

DeepSeek open-sources Ascend ports of its core kernel libraries

DeepSeek has put MIT-licensed Huawei Ascend ports of its matrix-multiplication and expert-routing kernels on GitHub, with utilisation figures it has measured itself.

Samsung puts $1bn into Helix, the AI infrastructure venture run by AWS’s former boss

Samsung Electronics and five affiliates are backing Helix Digital Infrastructure with $1bn, a bet that the bottleneck in AI is power and…

NVIDIA launches open agent safety platform, with Anthropic on board

NVIDIA’s OpenShell sandboxes AI agents in software, and its Sentry design watches them from hardware they cannot reach.

AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in $8.2bn all-stock deal

AMD will pay about $8.2bn in stock for the spatial-intelligence lab, and Fei-Fei Li will become its chief scientist.

Nvidia starts qualifying batteries and coolers for AI sites

Nvidia’s new DSX Ready programme certifies batteries and cooling units for AI sites. One category is reviewed by Nvidia, the other self-attested.