Unconventional AI Raises $475M: Brain Chips vs NVIDIA
Naveen Rao’s new startup Unconventional AI just closed a $475 million seed round at a $4.5 billion valuation—two months after founding. The former ...
Roomba Maker iRobot Files Bankruptcy: China Takes Control
iRobot filed Chapter 11 yesterday. Chinese supplier PICEA takes 100% control through $350M+ debt. EU ...
macOS 26.2 RDMA AI Clusters Challenge NVIDIA at $38K
Apple released macOS 26.2 Tahoe on December 12, 2025, introducing RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 that ...
macOS 26.2 RDMA Thunderbolt 5 AI Clusters: 10x Efficiency
Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.2 yesterday (December 12, 2025), quietly introducing RDMA (Remote Direct Memory ...
Rivian Ditches Nvidia for Custom RAP1 Chip in R2 SUV
On Wednesday, December 11, Rivian unveiled the RAP1 (Rivian Autonomy Processor 1), a custom 5nm ...
Optical Computing Breaks 10 GHz: GPU Alternative in 3 Years
The GPU bottleneck narrative just got complicated. While the industry scrambles for NVIDIA’s $40,000 GPUs, two universities demonstrated optical processors performing AI calculations ...
AWS Trainium3 Matches NVIDIA: 50% Cheaper AI Training
AWS Trainium3 matches NVIDIA GB300 at 0.36 ExaFLOPS with 50% cost savings. Anthropic's 500K chip ...
Room-Temperature Quantum Computing: Stanford Ends $10M Era
Stanford University researchers published a quantum communication device this week that operates at room temperature, ...
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys Deal Grips Chip Design Tools
On December 1, 2025, Nvidia dropped $2 billion on Synopsys, the dominant chip design software ...
Marvell’s $5.5B Bet on Photonics for AI Infrastructure
Marvell's $5.5B Celestial AI buy solves AI memory bottleneck with 16Tbps photonics. Oracle deploys 131K ...