<p>Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei is looking to take on semiconductor behemoth Nvidia with a new advanced AI chip. Huawei is making progress developing its latest Ascend AI GPU, the Ascend 910D, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar. The company has been reaching out to other Chinese firms to find test partners, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a &#8220;more than&#8221; $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and &#8220;accelerate [IBM&#8217;s] role as the global leader in computing,&#8221; the company said in a press release Monday. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in something else: a vast increase in lines of code, and thus the likelihood of bugs resulting in crashes or other mishaps. On Monday, an Israeli startup called Lightrun, which has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Semiconductor giant Intel won&#8217;t spin out its venture arm, Intel Capital, after all. During Intel&#8217;s Q1 earnings call Thursday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company has reversed its decision to spin out its 34-year-old venture arm. Instead, Intel Capital will remain internal and continue to invest with Intel&#8217;s interests in mind. &#8220;We have made [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel says that it&#8217;ll require employees to work from the office four days a week, a shift from the company&#8217;s current policy. CEO Lip-Bu Tan made the announcement during Intel&#8217;s Q1 2025 earnings call on Thursday. Previously, Intel allowed staff to work from home two days a week, but Tan said that adherence to the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of 2025, according to reporting from Reuters and Bloomberg. These cuts amount to $100 million in future payments, per Bloomberg. Federal contracts represent [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog on Wednesday said it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered data observability startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a press release, Datadog said that the deal &#8220;accelerates&#8221; its expansion into data observability, building on the launch of related products. Metaplane will continue supporting its existing and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel is set to cut over 21,000 people, or roughly 20% of its workforce, with an announcement due this week, according to a Bloomberg report.  The news comes ahead of Intel&#8217;s Q1 earnings call helmed by recently appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who replaced longtime chief Pat Gelsinger last year.&nbsp; With the layoffs, Tan aims to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response times and &#8220;occasional resource unavailability.&#8221; Flex processing, available in beta for OpenAI&#8217;s recently released o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, is aimed at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Matija Šošić started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack production-ready web application. One of the biggest hurdles Šošić faced was navigating the fragmented dev tooling landscape. Coding a web application required utilizing different tools for developing the front end versus the back end, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,&#8221; Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. PT. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AMD says that the U.S. government&#8217;s license control requirement for exporting AI chips to China and certain other countries may have a material impact on its earnings. If AMD doesn&#8217;t successfully obtain a license, the company could be on the hook for roughly $800 million in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves charges, it said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Artificial intelligence services at their heart are massive data plays: You need data — a lot of it — to build the models, and then the models need efficient ways to ingest and output data to work.&nbsp; A company called Hammerspace has built a system to help AI and other organizations tap into data troves [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips. In a filing Tuesday, Nvidia said it was informed by the U.S. government that it will need a license to export its H20 AI chips to China. This license will be required indefinitely, according to the filing — the U.S. government [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a sign of Anthropic&#8217;s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to &#8220;accelerate&#8221; the adoption of Anthropic&#8217;s AI among AWS accounts by &#8220;building programs that [&#8230;] scale across [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference your emails in Gmail, scheduled events in Google Calendar, and documents in Google Docs. The integration is rolling out in beta first to subscribers to Anthropic&#8217;s Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans. Administrators managing multi-user [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notion&#8217;s workflow management platform, on Tuesday. Notion Mail connects to Notion users&#8217; Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and Notion [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel on Monday said it has agreed to sell 51% of its Altera semiconductor business to Silver Lake, a private equity firm. The deal, which values Altera at $8.75 billion, will make the division &#8220;operationally independent,&#8221; Intel said in a press release. The chipmaker will retain a 49% stake in Altera, which will be led [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Linux Foundation has become something of a misnomer through the years. It has extended far beyond its roots as the steward of the Linux kernel, emerging as a sprawling umbrella outfit for a thousand open source projects spanning cloud infrastructure, security, digital wallets, enterprise search, fintech, maps, and more. Last month, the OpenInfra Foundation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dropbox&#8217;s chief customer officer, Eric Cox, plans to step down, according to a document filed with the SEC on Friday. Cox will remain in his current role for &#8220;a period of time&#8221; to help with the transition, per the filing, and then will continue as a &#8220;non-executive&#8221; employee through mid-August. The filing did not mention [&hellip;]</p>