AI chips
Jul 2, 2026
Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Develop Custom AI Chip
Anthropic is reportedly in discussions with Samsung to co-develop a custom AI chip, positioning the Claude maker as the latest AI lab to pursue silicon independence. The news follows OpenAI's announcement of its own custom chip built in partnership with Broadcom.
AI chips
Anthropic
Custom Silicon
Jun 30, 2026
Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Coding Model
Meituan has unveiled LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model trained entirely on domestic Chinese ASICs that spent two months dominating OpenRouter under a stealth identity. Released under the MIT license with a 1-million-token context window, it outperforms GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro and signals a structural shift in global AI infrastructure.
Agentic AI
AI chips
Chinese AI
Jun 25, 2026
IBM's 100-Billion-Transistor Chip and Europe's Grid Woes
IBM has unveiled a prototype chip packing 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized area — twice the density of its 2021 record — potentially extending Moore's Law by a decade. Meanwhile, Europe's record heat wave is straining power grids in ways that reveal a deeper structural challenge for climate-era energy planning.
AI chips
Anthropic
climate
Jun 25, 2026
Cerebras Stock Plunges After First Post-IPO Earnings
AI chipmaker Cerebras saw its stock plunge following its debut earnings report as a public company, after forecasting narrower gross margins spooked investors. CEO Andrew Feldman insisted the market misread the guidance, but the damage was swift.
AI chips
Cerebras
Earnings
Jun 25, 2026
OpenAI's First Custom Chip: Jalapeno, Built With Broadcom
OpenAI has unveiled its first custom inference chip, codenamed Jalapeno, developed in partnership with Broadcom. The move signals OpenAI's push to reduce dependence on Nvidia and take greater control of its AI infrastructure stack.
AI chips
Broadcom
Custom Silicon