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Monday 24 August 2026
Nvidia's strikes US$6B licensing deal with Poolside to accelerate Nemotron models
Nvidia reportedly struck a US$6 billion deal with startup Poolside to license its technology and hire much of its staff. The technology and personnel will reportedly support the chipmaker's...
Monday 24 August 2026
UAE weighs investment in 500 MW AI data center plan in Japan
The United Arab Emirates is considering backing a proposed 500 MW AI data center in Akita prefecture, Japan, after local officials met with the UAE ambassador on Aug. 19. The project,...
Monday 24 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly weighs Perplexity investment as AI strategy expands beyond chips
Nvidia is reportedly in discussions to invest in artificial intelligence startup Perplexity as part of a funding round that would value the company at more than US$30 billion, underscoring...
Monday 24 August 2026
India-based Raana Semiconductors in talks to raise US$10.4 million Series A for crystal-growth expansion
According to Inc42, Indian semiconductor startup Raana Semiconductors is in advanced discussions to raise about INR100 crore (US$10.44 million) in a Series A funding round,...
Friday 21 August 2026
HP Korea localizes AI strategy with Upstage in healthcare, finance
HP Korea is sharpening its localized AI strategy through a partnership with large language model (LLM) startup Upstage, and has already moved into AI transformation (AX), eyeing demand...
Friday 21 August 2026
Stripe weighs US$7 billion OpenRouter deal to expand AI model routing
Stripe is in acquisition talks to buy AI startup OpenRouter for more than US$7 billion, according to reporting by Bloomberg and Axios. The price would be more than...
Thursday 20 August 2026
LandSpace nails China's first private orbital booster landing, advancing reusable rocket race

Chinese commercial space startup LandSpace successfully launched its Zhuque-3 Y2 carrier rocket on August 19 from the Dongfeng Commercial...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Google and AMD target post-GPU era with Frozen v2 and Taalas
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recently announced its acquisition of Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to sharpen its competitive edge in AI inference. Taalas' core technology bakes model...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 lifts coding, cyber tests, flags Cursor vulnerability

Z.ai has released GLM-5.3, a new AI model that it said delivers major gains in coding and cybersecurity through post-training alone...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Tokyo University's satellite legacy helped build Japan's space startup wave—now comes the harder part
Japan may not possess the industrial scale or launch economics of satellite giants such as SpaceX, but the country has established its own development mechanism around persistent experimentation,...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model...

Monday 17 August 2026
AMD eyes Taalas: will the system ditch HBM, advanced packaging, 3D stacking?
The AI compute landscape was jolted in February 2026 by Taalas, a Canadian startup founded by former AMD and NVIDIA architect Ljubisa Bajic. Emerging with an unconventional "Model-Based"...
Monday 17 August 2026
Stripe reportedly agrees to buy AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than US$7 billion
Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses switch between artificial intelligence (AI) models, for more than US$7 billion,...
Friday 14 August 2026
VinSpace signs SpaceX launch deal for first satellites in 2027
Vietnamese aerospace startup VinSpace has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch its first satellites in 2027. Bloomberg reported that the payloads will fly on a SpaceX Transporter...