The wire · hardware
friday, september 4, 2026· 1 brief
21:45 Crusoe triples its valuation to $30B thursday, september 3, 2026· 1 brief
21:35 Lyte raises $165M to help robots see tuesday, september 1, 2026· 1 brief
12:00 Anthropic signs $35B compute deal with Lambda monday, august 31, 2026· 2 briefs
22:50 Meta tests robots to replace data techs 22:00 Nvidia puts $3.5B into MediaTek chips sunday, august 30, 2026· 2 briefs
22:35 Small aviation firm becomes a $500M AI campus 22:20 a16z raises $1.1B just for AI hardware thursday, august 27, 2026· 4 briefs
22:20 Amazon triples its Nvidia GPU order for AWS 22:15 Anthropic signs $45B Nscale deal 22:10 Nvidia forecasts $673B in FY2028 sales 22:05 Anthropic previews hardware standard wednesday, august 26, 2026· 2 briefs
22:20 Emerald AI raises $150M to make data centers grid-flexible 22:10 Perplexity and Nvidia launch a fully local AI agent tuesday, august 25, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 Apple's new Macs are built for local AI monday, august 24, 2026· 1 brief
22:50 Nvidia's Groq inference chip hits production friday, august 21, 2026· 1 brief
19:20 Starcloud raises $250M as launches tighten wednesday, august 19, 2026· 2 briefs
17:00 Cerebras launches the CS-4 inference system 13:00 Startup raises $22M for faster data-center fiber tuesday, august 18, 2026· 1 brief
22:25 Etched's valuation doubles again to $21B monday, august 17, 2026· 2 briefs
21:55 Groq raises $350M, pivots to neocloud 21:45 NVIDIA backs $105B OpenAI Ohio data center tuesday, august 11, 2026· 2 briefs
22:20 Lambda borrows $917M to buy Nvidia GPUs 22:10 Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning monday, august 10, 2026· 1 brief
22:05 AI hedge fund bets $400M on chip tooling thursday, august 6, 2026· 1 brief
23:00 AMD buys Taalas to bake models into chips wednesday, august 5, 2026· 2 briefs
23:00 Anthropic confirms in-house AI chip team 18:00 Texas freezes new AI data center hookups tuesday, august 4, 2026· 3 briefs
23:20 Nvidia and Dell back a $2.4B AI cloud upstart 22:35 Nvidia opens up a robotaxi model that explains itself 22:05 FCC bans new foreign-made humanoid robots thursday, july 30, 2026· 2 briefs
23:20 Nscale buys Anyscale, the Ray creator 22:00 Gemini Robotics 2 controls whole robots wednesday, july 29, 2026· 2 briefs
23:00 Recursive Superintelligence's $410M AWS deal 22:55 Moonshot seeks more chips amid ban claims monday, july 27, 2026· 2 briefs
22:05 Nvidia, SK Group ink $500B AI infra deal 22:00 Nvidia may back OpenAI's Ohio data center sunday, july 26, 2026· 1 brief
22:30 Genesis AI in talks for $500M robotics round saturday, july 25, 2026· 1 brief
22:10 Robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M friday, july 24, 2026· 1 brief
21:20 AMD launches Helios rack to rival NVIDIA thursday, july 23, 2026· 3 briefs
20:30 Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B 20:00 Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation 16:00 AMD to invest up to $5B in Anthropic wednesday, july 22, 2026· 1 brief
21:50 OpenAI lifts compute spending plan to $750B tuesday, july 21, 2026· 1 brief
21:50 Google is reportedly building a Gemini-only chip saturday, july 18, 2026· 1 brief
21:47 NVIDIA ships smaller Jetson Thor modules thursday, july 16, 2026· 5 briefs
21:52 TYLsemi raises $43M for AI chiplets 21:46 Spectro Cloud raises $100M Series D 21:40 Valarian raises $50M for sovereign AI 21:20 Nvidia ships Cosmos 3 Edge, locks in Japan 17:20 Walden Robotics raises $300M at $1.1B tuesday, july 14, 2026· 2 briefs
21:00 Nvidia H200 shipments to China begin 09:10 Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield for compute monday, july 13, 2026· 1 brief
17:00 Helsing raises $1.8B at $18B valuation sunday, july 12, 2026· 2 briefs
21:30 SK Hynix raises $26.5B in biggest foreign IPO 21:30 US clears AI chip exports to UAE monday, july 6, 2026· 1 brief
03:00 TeraWulf signs $19B data center lease saturday, july 4, 2026· 1 brief
21:34 Nvidia trades GPU financing for revenue cut tuesday, june 30, 2026· 1 brief
19:00 Etched AI chip exits stealth with $800M raised friday, june 26, 2026· 1 brief
20:39 Un-0 makes images with coupled oscillators thursday, june 25, 2026· 1 brief
08:42 Qualcomm buys Modular to take on CUDA wednesday, june 24, 2026· 1 brief
20:40 OpenAI and Broadcom reveal Jalapeño chip tuesday, june 23, 2026· 1 brief
08:42 Groq raises $650M for its inference cloud sunday, june 21, 2026· 1 brief
09:00 Claude pilots a robot dog 20x faster