Vast wraps $500M round as company vies for NASA space station contract
Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that…
Nvidia CEO Huang says $30 billion OpenAI investment ‘might be the last’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time”…
Smartphone market poised for ‘sharpest decline on record’ in 2026
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – SEPTEMBER 19: Customers line up outside an Apple store ahead of the launch of…
Microsoft and SpaceX’s Starlink partner on global internet effort
Elon Musk attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse…
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New…
China’s AI surge — real threat or hype?
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei avoid holding hands at India AI summit
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) takes a group photo with AI company leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam…
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
Qwen3 is Alibaba’s latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with “advanced, dynamic reasoning.”…
China’s Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users
Chinese tech company Baidu, best known for its search engine, also operates cloud, mapping and other internet-based services.…
Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
Information on Zhipu’s AI service on the web, dubbed Z.ai, arranged on a computer in Shanghai, Jan. 7,…
Taiwan pushes back against Washington’s 40% chip supply relocation goal
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s logo is seen in the background beside a printed circuit board. Sopa Images |…
Space data center cooling problem still needs solution
Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said two years would be an “aggressive” timeframe for space data centers and…