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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said it plans to buy World Labs, a startup founded by one of the most influential artificial intelligence researchers, Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, Bloomberg writes. She is called the “godmother of AI.” The deal will not only bring her onto AMD’s team, but also let the company bet on the next era of AI.

Samsung Electronics (KS:005930) and five affiliated companies will jointly invest $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure — an AI infrastructure company created by the investment firm KKR. Thus, the South Korean tech giant is expanding its presence beyond the semiconductor market — into data centers, energy, and telecommunications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has ramped up its collaboration with Intel, IQM, Qblox, Quantinuum, QuEra Computing, Quantum Machines, Rigetti, and Riverlane to push forward hybrid quantum-classical computing.
The company plans to integrate the HPE Cray supercomputing platform with quantum processors, control systems, and error correction solutions. Partners will set up test benches for joint algorithm development, software compatibility checks, and performance evaluation of hybrid systems.

Software developer for military and civilian needs Palantir published on July 1 on the social network X nine thoughts about “AI sovereignty.” Business Insider called it the company’s manifesto. It urged businesses to store data within their own structures rather than outsourcing it to institutions that Palantir deems unreliable.

On August 12, Alphabet unveiled a new lineup of Google Pixel smartphones, making the company’s most advanced version of Gemini with agent capabilities the centerpiece of the devices. Pixel 11 was released just a few weeks before Apple, as expected, introduces a fully redesigned Siri powered by Google AI models, CNBC notes.

Shares of VisionWave Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:VWAV) popped 3.3% on Monday after the company announced it has filed a preliminary patent application in the U.S. for its SDNN™ (Symbiotic Deep Neural Network) technology — its proprietary neural network architecture.
The tech company stated that the architecture is designed to support multi-source data fusion in real-time, adaptive analytics, and coordinated management of distributed intelligent platforms in the realms of defense, security, counter-drone operations, robotics, and civil infrastructure.

Hyundai Motor is gearing up to buy out the remaining stake of SoftBank Group in Boston Dynamics, making it a fully owned subsidiary, according to the South Korean publication Maeil Business Newspaper on Friday.
According to the publication, citing unnamed industry sources, Hyundai will shell out $325 million for the remaining 9.65% shares of the robotics company held by SoftBank.

French Pasqal and the Saudi scientific center KACST have signed a multi-year agreement for joint research in the field of quantum technologies and post-quantum cryptography.
The program will include the development and testing of quantum-attack-resistant algorithms, key generation, and the onboarding of Saudi researchers to Pasqal equipment and its cloud platform. The funding parameters and specific timelines were not disclosed by the parties.

IBM connected and jointly cooled two modular cryogenic complexes, creating a single ultra-cold environment to scale fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Two modules are designed to link hundreds of quantum chips as part of a more powerful infrastructure. According to IBM, cooling to 4 K took less than five days, after which the system reached a temperature below 15 mK.

Shares of International Business Machines (New York: IBM) rose by about 5% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company announced a breakthrough in chip technology with a process of less than 1 nanometer.
“IBM’s new chip with a process of less than 1 nm packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a die the size of a fingernail — almost double the density of IBM’s 2-nm chip unveiled in 2021,” the company said in a statement.

ИИ-infrastructure and modern communication systems for drones depend on a single resource—fiber-optic cable. Due to a shortage, the cost of some brands has risen by 500%, and China, which controls more than half of the global market for these materials, has gained the ability to set supply terms. Other countries are trying to increase their own capacity, but so far they are clearly lagging behind.

Taiwanese company TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Monday that its revenue in the second quarter rose by 36% year-on-year. During the reporting period, it reached a record high amid demand for artificial intelligence technologies, Reuters reports.

IBM plans to put into operation by September in Amaravati (India) an IBM Quantum System Two system with a 156-qubit Heron processor. The installation will be one of the first two physical quantum machines of the company deployed in the country. The project will be a key milestone of the Andhra Pradesh state initiative “Quantum Valley” and is tied to an agreement between the regional government, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services.

Nvidia took the rare step for the company of showing results from comparative tests of its new server processor Vera and a competing solution from AMD — Epyc Turin, Bloomberg reports. The deployment of new Vera Rubin servers is under close scrutiny from investors and analysts who are concerned about possible delays and production issues, the agency explains.

The world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer, Chinese company Xiaomi, has released a new version of the mobile processor for its flagship devices—thus issuing a challenge to Qualcomm and MediaTek, which for years have supplied the company with this key component, Bloomberg reports.
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Shares of the three largest manufacturers of AI memory chips — U.S.-based Micron and its South Korean rivals SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — fell on October 12 after news that their Chinese competitor ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had made progress in developing technology that would increase data storage density in chips. Micron and SK Hynix lost more than 2% in premarket trading in New York. Samsung Electronics shares fell 4.4% by the close of trading in Seoul.

Global AAPL smartphone shipments declined year over year in the third quarter, while global market share rose to 22% on strong demand for the iPhone 18 Pro in China and India. Shipments in China fell 4.3%, and market share stood at 17.8%.
JPMorgan raised its price target for Apple (AAPL) to $360, maintained its Overweight rating, set its December-quarter EPS forecast at $2.81, forecast shipments of 69 million iPhones (-18% year over year), and expects ASP growth to offset lower volumes.

U.S. chipmaker Intel is returning to the GPU market: it has unveiled a new lineup, the Intel GPU D-Series. The GPUs are designed for inference—running AI models that have already been trained. The new chips are expected to intensify the company’s competition with Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm, Yahoo Finance reports.
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Unlike chips for server racks, such as Nvidia Blackwell, Intel’s D-Series GPUs will be shipped as PCIe cards. They look similar to desktop gaming graphics cards. Intel said it is working with a number of hardware manufacturers, contract developers and system manufacturers, as well as neocloud companies and other partners, to bring D-Series-based systems to market. These include ASUS, HPE, Dell and Supermicro.

Bitdeer AI, the cloud computing division of Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies, has announced plans to build a new 67 MW A901 campus in Malaysia. It will be the company’s third hub in the country, after Cyberjaya and Johor.
The facility will be designed for liquid cooling and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack systems, and will serve next-generation enterprise AI workloads. The first capacity is expected to come online in Q1 2027, with the full 67 MW scheduled for completion by year-end.

Physical Intelligence, co-founded by a Russian-born robotics professor, has raised more than $2.1 billion in two years. Its investors include billionaire Jeff Bezos and even, to some extent, rival OpenAI. What makes the company so interesting?