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1. Chips & hardware · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Google adds two new chips to its TPU lineup

   Google has expanded its eighth generation TPU portfolio with TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max. The company says this makes four new TPU systems in a single year.

   Full story at blog.google ↗
2. Chips & hardware · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Google unveils new TPU chips

   Google expanded its eighth-generation TPU lineup with the 8tx and 8i Max systems. The chips are designed for agentic AI workloads.

   Full story at blog.google ↗
3. Chips & hardware

   Walmart raises prices on Onn streaming devices

   Walmart increased prices by $10 on its Onn Full HD, 4K, and 4K Pro Streaming devices. The company made no official announcement about the price hikes.

   Full story at Android Authority ↗
4. Artificial intelligence · Chips & hardware · IT industry & companies

   NVIDIA and Korea expand sovereign AI partnership

   NVIDIA and South Korea are broadening collaboration from chips to skills training. The partnership aims to strengthen Korea's sovereign AI capabilities.

   Full story at NVIDIA ↗
5. Artificial intelligence · Chips & hardware · IT law & regulation · IT industry & companies

   Huang's affair undermines Nvidia's export control lobbying

   Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman US intelligence agencies classify as a suspected Chinese informant. The board has opened an independent investigation, and the newly elected Democratic Congress may increase scrutiny of AI chip smuggling to China.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
6. Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies · Chips & hardware

   Nvidia plans investments in Korean startups

   At the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum, Nvidia met over 20 Korean startups. It announced an investment in the startup Point2.

   Full story at nvidia.com ↗
7. Chips & hardware · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Google adds TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max chips

   Google expands its TPU lineup with confidential computing and dual-chip systems. They target agents handling large codebases and million-token contexts.

   Full story at TestingCatalog AI News ↗
8. Chips & hardware · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies

   Google adds two variants to its TPU 8 family

   Google introduces TPU 8tx, which keeps sensitive data encrypted during processing, and TPU 8i Max, which doubles compute power and memory. Nearly 100 external customers use the chips, which Google positions as an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
9. IT industry & companies · Chips & hardware

   US futures climb as oil falls and Nvidia slips

   US stock futures rose on Monday after last week's selloff, helped by lower oil prices. Nvidia's decline limited gains among technology stocks.

   Full story at Analytics Insight ↗
10. Cloud & data centers · DevOps & containers · Chips & hardware

    Amazon EKS adds Dynamic Resource Allocation support

    Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter now support Dynamic Resource Allocation for NVIDIA GPUs and EFA network devices. Workloads can define the device attributes they need and share GPUs across Pods.

    Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗

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