AI Agent

World first: Cadence ChipStack hits Level 5 autonomy for chip design, running spec-to-signoff verification 40x faster — five weeks down to a day.

Linus Torvalds debugged an Intel Xe driver bug with AI: 24 patches, 18 reboots, one line changed. What it says about AI-assisted coding.

Graph Engineering maps tasks, agents and state onto explicit graphs, pushing AI from individual skills to system intelligence. Here is how it works.

China Telecom signs a 16.45B yuan Token Factory deal as daily calls jump 100B to 140T in two years — carriers pivot from pipes to actuaries.

Percy Liang trains a 535B MoE fully in public: live loss curves, data mix and a scaling-ladder playbook. Frontier training stops being a black box.

An AI-assisted proof constructs a complex structure on the six-sphere, ending a 1948 math problem that felled even a Fields medalist.

Nvidia pays $6B to license Poolside's Model Factory, hires 109 engineers, and invests $1B — a soft acquisition aimed at a trillion-parameter open model.

HuggingFace, the GitHub of AI, is exploring a $13B sale. AI capital is shifting from frontier-model bets to the gateways developers pass through.

OpenAI now sells Codex as an open agent harness; DeepSeek DSH hit 173k stars in days. The AI battleground moved down to the runtime layer.

GPU vendors, cloud firms and frontier labs are buying chip companies — via equity, long-term deals and custom silicon. Compute moved to a quota system.

Many WRC 2026 robots come from Chinese county towns. ~70% of a humanoid's cost sits in actuators and reducers; China holds 63% of the supply chain.

DeepSeek bills weekends all-day at off-peak valley rates, signaling inference is becoming a time-priced utility.