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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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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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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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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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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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NVIDIA AI server prices rise by over 15%
Bloomberg reports that NVIDIA has told some major customers that servers containing its AI chips will rise by more than 15% in many cases as memory costs surge.
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NVIDIA reportedly backs Stargate power developer
NVIDIA has reportedly agreed to invest $2 billion in Lancium and commit up to another $1 billion as the power developer secures additional planned electricity.
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GPT-5.6 Redraws the Model Pricing Curve
OpenAI cut prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra. Simon Willison reports reductions of 80% and 20%, respectively, with model-assisted infrastructure optimization contributing to the shift.
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Uber adds autonomous ride booking in Zagreb
Uber, Verne and Pony.ai have launched autonomous rides in Zagreb. Reuters reports that users can book through the Uber app, making Zagreb the first European city with that access point.
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Marvell Gives Google a Warrant for Up to $12.2 Billion in Stock
Marvell expanded its chip-development partnership with Google and granted it a warrant to buy up to $12.2 billion of Marvell stock.
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Anthropic Revenue Reportedly Rose 14-Fold in Q2
Bloomberg reports that Anthropic told prospective investors its second-quarter revenue rose at least 14-fold year over year. If confirmed in public filings, the IPO discussion would shift toward commercial scale and earnings delivery.
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Stripe Reportedly Buys OpenRouter for $7B+
Bloomberg and TechCrunch report that Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. If confirmed, model routing would be valued as AI application infrastructure.
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Cursor opens code hosting to paid users
Cursor has launched the early beta of Origin, a Git forge available to all paid plans, extending its AI coding product into code hosting, commits and collaboration.
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OpenAI publicly names next major model Astra
OpenAI has publicly named Astra as its next major model and used ten results on long-open mathematics and theoretical-computer-science problems as an initial capability record. Astra is not yet publicly deployed.
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Z.ai launches GLM-5.3 for cyber defense
Z.ai has released the open-source GLM-5.3 and positioned it for coding and cyber defense. The company says its cybersecurity capability is comparable to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.