Bristol Myers Squibb Deploying Second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD on Vera Rubin
Bristol Myers Squibb announced it is deploying its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture, in what the company describes as the life science industry's most advanced AI factory. BMS already operates on…
Chinese AI Labs Shift From Price War to Performance Race
Chinese AI labs are no longer competing to be the cheapest option — they are competing to be the best, and the infrastructure strain is proving it. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 generated so much demand within days of launch that the com…
Chinese Open-Weight AI Models Surge as Businesses Shift From US Providers
Daily token volume for Zhipu's GLM-5.2 has surged 50-fold on Vercel since mid-June, as global businesses increasingly shift from premium US closed-source AI systems to cheaper Chinese open-weight alternatives. GLM-5.2 operates at…
Databricks Signs Term Sheet at $188B Valuation, Coatue Leads
Databricks has signed a term sheet for a new strategic funding round at a $188 billion valuation, led by existing investor Coatue, with the deal expected to close later this summer. The company has not disclosed…
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RANKED · 8 THIS DAYChinese AI Chip Hits 520 TFLOPS on 14nm via Architecture Innovation
A Chinese AI chip combining software-defined computing and 3D near-memory architecture was unveiled in Shanghai on July 13, delivering 520 trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) on a 14nm manufacturing process. The…
China's Daily AI Token Calls Hit 140 Trillion, Up 1,000-Fold Since Early 2024
China's daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, a more than 1,000-fold increase from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, according to figures cited by Wei Liang, deputy head of the China Academy of Information and Communicat…
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 With Safety Redirect to Opus 4.8
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, which the company calls "the most capable model we've ever released to the public". Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model equipped with safeguards designed to make it suitable for general us…
NVIDIA Unveils Agentic AI Tools, Cosmos 3 Edge, and Synthetic Video Detector at SIGGRAPH 2026
NVIDIA used its SIGGRAPH 2026 keynote on July 20 to announce a broad set of AI tools spanning agentic content creation, open world models for physical AI, and synthetic media detection. The conference, running through July 23 in…