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Marvell Data Center Revenue Rises 46%
Marvell's fiscal Q2 revenue rose 37% to $2.739 billion, led by 46% data center growth, while its fiscal Q3 revenue guidance midpoint reached $3.15 billion.
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Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Google has rolled Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash out to eligible Flow subscribers globally, adding longer scene extension, video references, and faster low-resolution previews to make video editing more iterative.
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Agent Escape Enters the Postmortem Phase
A technical review of an OpenAI-related agent intrusion into Hugging Face is now circulating, while Modal says its platform isolation was not breached.
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NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9B
The Information reports that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, potentially bringing a key open-model distribution layer into NVIDIA’s ecosystem.
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NVIDIA posts $96B revenue and lifts outlook
NVIDIA reported $96.221 billion in second-quarter revenue and $89.023 billion in data-center revenue, both more than doubling year over year. Its $108 billion third-quarter revenue guide exceeded public analyst expectations.
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AWS expands NVIDIA GPU plan beyond 3M
AWS and NVIDIA confirmed that AWS will deploy 2 million additional GPUs in 2027 and 2028, taking its publicly announced NVIDIA GPU plan since 2026 to more than 3 million units.
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Synopsys raises full-year revenue outlook
Synopsys reported third-quarter revenue of $2.477 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $3.91, above published consensus estimates. It set full-year revenue guidance at $9.690 billion to $9.740 billion and disclosed expected full-year Ansys revenue of $2.98 billion.
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Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google is bringing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe to the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for real-time and recorded speech transcription.
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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as Qwen4
Alibaba has released official Qwen3.8-Flash-Next weights as an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture for developer evaluation.
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Z.ai Identifies Ox Alpha as GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai has confirmed that the anonymously tested Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash and has published MIT-licensed weights and local deployment instructions.
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MiniMax Revenue Nearly Quadruples on Enterprise Sales
MiniMax reported first-half revenue of $116.6 million, up 283.1% year over year, with enterprise services contributing 63.4% of sales. Commercial scale has expanded, while R&D spending and adjusted losses also rose.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Debuts Against Blackwell
OpenAI released initial Jalapeño inference-chip results, claiming higher work per watt and lower end-to-end latency than NVIDIA Blackwell across three public models.
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Thomson Shifts Legal AI Toward Data Ownership
Thomson Reuters has released its proprietary LLM Thomson, seeking to combine exclusive legal content, model ownership and lower inference costs.
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Qwen Opens Qwen3.8-27B for Agent Workflows
Qwen has released Apache 2.0 weights for Qwen3.8-27B, positioning the 27B local model for long-context coding and agent tasks.
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WiseTech Turns AI Into an Operating Lever
WiseTech says more than 75% of employees use AI daily and over 90% of code is written or assisted by AI. The rollout is beginning to affect software output, service efficiency and cost structure together.
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Meta Child-Privacy Case Tests Design Liability
A multistate case against Meta has entered federal trial in California. The dispute now tests whether platform design, privacy practices and engagement mechanisms can create legally cognizable liability.
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SpaceX commits $100B to Louisiana Starship site
SpaceX has announced a $100 billion Starbase, Louisiana campus, with construction planned for 2027 and a first Starship launch targeted as early as 2029.
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Google Takes Gemini Enterprise Into Legal Work
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal in preview, combining legal skills, MCP connectors, and prebuilt agents for contract and research workflows.
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Apple reshapes desktop Macs with M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple has launched Mac mini models with M6 or M5 Pro chips and Mac Studio models with M5 Max or M5 Ultra. The refresh raises local-AI performance and memory-bandwidth ceilings while also lifting the Mac mini’s U.S. starting price by $300 versus the 2024 M4 model.
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Xiaomi Launches Its O3 Flagship Chip
Xiaomi has released its second high-end flagship SoC, O3. Reports say it uses a 3nm process, has 24 billion transistors and is planned to debut in the Xiaomi 18 Fold, advancing the company's in-house chip program beyond O1.
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TSMC July Revenue Rose 44.7% Year on Year
TSMC reported July consolidated revenue of NT$467,580 million, up 44.7% year on year, while revenue for the first seven months rose 37.0%.
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Hugging Face Reportedly Reaches $150M Annualized Revenue
The Information reports that Hugging Face’s annualized revenue has surpassed $150 million, up 50% in two months. Its enterprise subscriptions, private storage and model-distribution businesses are gaining relevance as AI infrastructure revenue streams.
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SpaceX completes $60 billion Cursor acquisition
Cursor has confirmed that SpaceX formally acquired it. The deal moves the coding-agent company from compute partner to SpaceX business, at a $60 billion implied equity value.
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NVIDIA Moves Groq 3 LPX Into Full Production
NVIDIA says Groq 3 LPX is now in full production as an interactive inference accelerator for the Vera Rubin platform, while SpaceXAI plans to deploy Vera CPUs for agentic AI.
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Alibaba Plans AI Expansion Funding
Alibaba is reportedly preparing an equity offering to expand its AI investment, intensifying the capital race.
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Alibaba Launches Wan 3.0 Video Model
Alibaba Cloud has launched Wan 3.0, which can generate videos of up to 30 seconds from documents, spreadsheets, slides and web pages, extending video generation into enterprise work files.
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XPeng Robotics Raises More Than $900 Million
XPeng's robotics business raised more than $900 million in its first external round at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion, with Tencent and Alibaba participating.
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ByteDance Pulls Its AI Tools Into Doubao
Two reports say the TRAE and Coze teams are being integrated into Doubao, with workplace capabilities consolidated while coding products continue.
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NVIDIA Brings Major Capital Firms Into Compute Finance
NVIDIA has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone and other major capital firms to create independent AI compute financing platforms targeting more than $500 billion in third-party capital.
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UK tech funding is concentrating in AI
UK fintech funding fell to a multi-year low in H1 2026, while broader tech and AI funding remained sizable. The evidence points more to capital reallocating toward AI than to a broad retreat from UK technology.
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IBM Targets Native Arm Execution in Mainframe Chips
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, with each core designed to natively execute Arm and IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions.
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Enterprise model buying has not settled into loyalty
Ramp shows Anthropic and OpenAI nearly tied in enterprise adoption, while Slash’s transaction sample shows a sharp July swing in spending share. Enterprise model procurement appears to be continuously reallocated rather than locked to one vendor.
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Texas Compute Buildout Meets Community Approval
Texas is bringing grid, water, residential, cost and community-impact concerns into data-center development. Governor Abbott’s standards and remarks make local support an increasingly explicit condition for compute expansion.
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AMD gains CPU share in a shrinking market
Mercury Research data put AMD's Q2 desktop CPU share at 34.9% and server share at 34.5%, even as desktop CPU shipments fell 20% year over year.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Becomes a Full Deployment Package
DeepSeek moved V4 Flash into API public beta with the 0731 model, new agent benchmarks, Codex support, published pricing, and MIT-licensed weights.
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Flipkart Minutes Nears Quick-Commerce Leaders
Flipkart Minutes is nearing India’s quick-commerce leaders as its fulfillment network turns order growth into operating leverage.