Broadcom syndicate seeks $60 billion for AI chip financing
Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is starting to gather $60 billion in fresh AI chip financing, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. The financing effort would help Anthropic and other companies access chips and other infrastructure...
Rocket Lab signs 20-launch agreement with Synspective
Rocket Lab signed a 20-mission Electron launch agreement with Japanese radar satellite operator Synspective, Ars Technica reported, citing Aviation Week & Space Technology. Rocket Lab calls it its largest Electron launch service a...
Halluminate raises $30M for AI financial training environments
Halluminate raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M, Fortune reported. The nine-person San Francisco startup builds environments for training AI to perform complex financial work, giving the f...
OpenAI deploys Jalapeño chips with AMD Turin host processors
OpenAI is deploying its Jalapeño custom AI chips internally alongside AMD EPYC Turin host processors, each with 1.5TB of memory, Tom's Hardware reported. OpenAI hardware chief Richard Ho said the company chose Turin to reduce depl...
Mercor study finds AI outperforms accountants on simplified bookkeeping tasks
AI models performed structured bookkeeping tasks faster, more accurately and at lower cost than licensed accountants in a Mercor study, The Decoder reported. Twelve CPAs with an average of five and a half years of experience compl...
Toshiba expands Philippine HDD plant to double nearline capacity
Toshiba has spent approximately ¥60 billion ($380 million) expanding hard drive assembly in the Philippines, with nearline production capacity set to double in fiscal 2027 compared with fiscal 2025, Tom's Hardware reports, citing ...
