Intel Foundry says Intel 18A-P has entered risk production and brings performance, power and thermal gains over Intel 18A, but the update still leaves customer tape-outs and volume manufacturing undisclosed.

#Intel Foundry #Intel 18A P #VLSI Symposium

June 27, 2026Read More →

Quantifind Raises $200 Million For AI Risk Platform, With Customer Metrics Still Sparse

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Quantifind Raises $200 Million For AI Risk Platform, With Customer Metrics Still Sparse

Quantifind secured a $200 million growth investment led by Summit Partners to expand Graphyte, its AI-native risk intelligence platform for financial crime and national security operations.

#regtech #financial crime compliance #Quantifind

June 27, 2026Read More →

Qualcomm Wins Meta CPU Agreement, But Production Waits Until 2028

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Qualcomm Wins Meta CPU Agreement, But Production Waits Until 2028

Qualcomm Technologies will supply data center CPUs for Meta under a multi-generation agreement, with the first Dragonfly C1000 production scheduled for the second half of 2028 and capacity terms still undisclosed.

#Qualcomm #Meta #data center CPUs

June 26, 2026Read More →

OpenAI And Anthropic Face Enterprise AI Spending Controls Before IPO Push

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OpenAI And Anthropic Face Enterprise AI Spending Controls Before IPO Push

Companies are tightening AI budgets as Lindy moved 100% of its traffic from Claude to DeepSeek and Uber added spending tiers after exhausting its annual AI budget in four months.

#enterprise AI #AI spending #OpenAI

June 26, 2026Read More →

onsemi Sets $7 Billion Synaptics Deal For Physical AI Push

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onsemi Sets $7 Billion Synaptics Deal For Physical AI Push

onsemi agreed to buy Synaptics in an all-stock transaction valued at about $7 billion, but the chip deal still needs Synaptics shareholder approval and regulatory clearance before a mid-2027 close.

#onsemi #Synaptics #physical AI

June 26, 2026Read More →

AI Data Center Moratorium Bill Sets 20MW Threshold For New Builds

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AI Data Center Moratorium Bill Sets 20MW Threshold For New Builds

The AI Data Center Moratorium Act would pause qualifying data-center construction until federal review, consumer-bill, climate, subsidy and community-approval rules are in place.

#AI data centers #moratorium #energy policy

June 26, 2026Read More →

Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs As AI Cloud Debt Bill Rises

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Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs As AI Cloud Debt Bill Rises

Oracle’s SEC filing shows full-time employees fell from 162,000 to 141,000 as the company funds AI cloud infrastructure for customers including OpenAI, xAI, AMD, Nvidia and Meta.

#Oracle #Oracle Cloud Infrastructure #AI data centers

June 26, 2026Read More →

CNTXT AI Raises $60 Million For Sovereign AI Infrastructure Push

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CNTXT AI Raises $60 Million For Sovereign AI Infrastructure Push

UAE-based CNTXT AI raised $60 million from AI71 and BlueFive Capital to expand sovereign AI infrastructure, but the company did not publish revenue or contract values for its enterprise and government deployments.

#CNTXT AI #sovereign AI #AI71

June 26, 2026Read More →

Maverick Says Payments AI Still Runs On Human Support And Infrastructure

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Maverick Says Payments AI Still Runs On Human Support And Infrastructure

Maverick Payments is using AI across underwriting, onboarding and disputes, but its president said payment firms still need human support and white-label infrastructure behind faster merchant workflows.

#payments infrastructure #merchant onboarding #Maverick Payments

June 26, 2026Read More →

IBM Shows Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Research, With Production Proof Still Missing

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IBM Shows Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Research, With Production Proof Still Missing

IBM unveiled a 0.7 nm nanostack chip technology with nearly 100 billion transistors, but the company has not announced a manufacturing partner, production date or customer design win.

#IBM #nanostack #sub 1 nm chips

June 26, 2026Read More →

Lean And Ziina Bring One-Tap Bank Payments To UAE Wallet Top-Ups

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Lean And Ziina Bring One-Tap Bank Payments To UAE Wallet Top-Ups

Lean Technologies and Ziina have launched a one-tap Pay by Bank wallet top-up feature in the UAE, but the announcement does not disclose fees, bank coverage or transaction targets.

#digital payments #Open Finance #Lean Technologies

June 26, 2026Read More →

Runpod Raises $100 Million As AI Developer Cloud Still Needs Capacity Detail

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Runpod Raises $100 Million As AI Developer Cloud Still Needs Capacity Detail

Runpod says it has raised $100 million and crossed more than one million developers, but the company did not disclose revenue, GPU capacity, regions or customer concentration.

#AI infrastructure #AI developer cloud #Runpod

June 26, 2026Read More →