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China's LineShine supercomputer claims TOP500 crown with domestically designed chips

China's LineShine supercomputer has seized first place on the TOP500 list, achieving 2.198 ExaFLOPS using only CPUs and domestically designed chips. Built at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, it dethroned US El Capitan but ranked fourth on AI-specific benchmarks. Experts say the achievement highlights China's push for self-sufficiency in computing rather than dominance in AI workloads.

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China's LineShine supercomputer claims TOP500 crown with domestically designed chips

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40 City Mayors Unite to Regulate Rapid Expansion of AI Data Centres Straining Power and Water

Mayors from 40 cities including London, Phoenix and Melbourne have signed the Global Urban Data Centres Pact to curb the environmental and infrastructural strain from AI data centres. The initiative addresses surging electricity demand, water consumption and land use conflicts as data centres threaten to overwhelm urban resources and communities.

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40 City Mayors Unite to Regulate Rapid Expansion of AI Data Centres Straining Power and Water

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UN launches transparency initiative demanding AI firms reveal full environmental impact by 2030

UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative at London Climate Action Week, calling on AI companies to publicly disclose their carbon emissions, water and land use. By 2030, data centers could consume more power than all but five countries and enough water to meet the basic needs of 1.3 billion sub-Saharan Africans for a year.

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UN launches transparency initiative demanding AI firms reveal full environmental impact by 2030

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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son rejects Elon Musk's orbital data centers as AI race heats up on Earth

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's vision for orbital data centers, arguing that the costs of launching and maintaining space-based infrastructure far outweigh electricity savings. With SoftBank committing $65 billion to OpenAI and the Stargate project, Son insists the AI race will be decided on Earth in the next few years, not in orbit a decade from now.

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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son rejects Elon Musk's orbital data centers as AI race heats up on Earth

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Samsung HBM4 sales cross $1 billion within four months as AI chip demand accelerates

Samsung Electronics achieved over $1 billion in HBM4 sales just four months after launching mass production in February, becoming the first company globally to ship sixth-generation high bandwidth memory chips. The rapid revenue growth signals accelerating demand for next-generation hardware tailored for AI applications, particularly for platforms like Nvidia's Vera Rubin that power generative AI workloads.

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Samsung HBM4 sales cross $1 billion within four months as AI chip demand accelerates

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Qualcomm acquires AI chip startup Modular for $4 billion to challenge Nvidia's dominance

Qualcomm announced a $4 billion all-stock acquisition of AI infrastructure startup Modular, gaining software that runs AI models across different chips without custom coding. The deal positions Qualcomm to challenge Nvidia's CUDA platform while expanding its presence in the booming data center market as it reduces reliance on smartphone chips.

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Qualcomm acquires AI chip startup Modular for $4 billion to challenge Nvidia's dominance

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Super Micro Computer stock surges 14% on analyst upgrade and new AI infrastructure blueprint

Super Micro Computer shares soared over 14% following a GF Securities upgrade from Hold to Buy with a $48 price target. The rally gained momentum as the company unveiled its Data Center Building Block Solutions Blueprint featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 platform at ISC 2026, showcasing liquid-cooled racks with up to 1,152 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs.

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Super Micro Computer stock surges 14% on analyst upgrade and new AI infrastructure blueprint

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Samsung unveils UFS 5.0 storage with 10.8GB/s speeds to accelerate on-device AI workloads

Samsung has announced its Universal Flash Storage 5.0 chips, delivering unprecedented 10.8GB/s read speeds and 9.5GB/s write speeds—more than double UFS 4.1 performance. The storage solution is designed to accelerate on-device AI applications while improving power efficiency by 40% and reducing chip size by 16.7%. Mass production begins in Q4 2026.

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Samsung unveils UFS 5.0 storage with 10.8GB/s speeds to accelerate on-device AI workloads

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Nvidia, PNNL and Fervo Energy build AI digital twin to unlock geothermal power 10,000 feet deep

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Nvidia, and Fervo Energy are developing EGS-Twin, a publicly available digital twin platform that uses AI to model geothermal reservoirs up to 10,000 feet underground. The platform aims to provide real-time insights into subsurface behavior, helping operators optimize power generation and scale clean energy production by 2029.

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Nvidia, PNNL and Fervo Energy build AI digital twin to unlock geothermal power 10,000 feet deep

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SpaceX signs $6.3 billion compute deal with Reflection AI through 2029

SpaceX has secured a major compute deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI, worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029. The agreement grants Reflection access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. This partnership highlights SpaceX's transformation into a data center powerhouse while reinforcing the growing momentum behind open-source AI models.

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SpaceX signs $6.3 billion compute deal with Reflection AI through 2029

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Europe Unveils 35 NVIDIA AI Supercomputers Across 23 Countries With 800 Exaflops of Power

Europe is building 35 NVIDIA AI supercomputers spanning 23 countries, marking the continent's largest one-year expansion of AI infrastructure. The systems deliver 800 exaflops of AI compute power and will support over 3 million researchers working on climate science, healthcare, clean energy, and quantum computing breakthroughs.

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Europe Unveils 35 NVIDIA AI Supercomputers Across 23 Countries With 800 Exaflops of Power

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NVIDIA launches Halos for Robotics as first full-stack safety system for physical AI deployment

NVIDIA has introduced Halos for Robotics, the industry's first comprehensive safety platform for autonomous robots and physical AI systems. The full-stack solution combines hardware, software, and certification tools to enable safe human-robot interaction in factories and warehouses. Agility Robotics becomes the first company to integrate the system into its Digit humanoid, already deployed by Amazon and Toyota.

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NVIDIA launches Halos for Robotics as first full-stack safety system for physical AI deployment

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Chevron Microsoft deal brings natural gas power to massive Texas AI data center

Chevron has signed a 20-year power supply deal with Microsoft to fuel a West Texas AI data center with natural gas. Project Kilby will deliver 2.67 gigawatts by 2028, marking a sharp turn from Microsoft's renewable energy commitments. The multi-billion-dollar facility will operate off-grid in the Permian Basin, tapping into abundant local gas supplies while raising questions about Big Tech's fossil fuel dependencies.

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Chevron Microsoft deal brings natural gas power to massive Texas AI data center

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Upscale AI raises $190 million to build networking infrastructure for the AI era, hits $2B valuation

Upscale AI closed a $190 million Series A-1 round led by Premji Invest, bringing total funding to $500 million and valuation to $2 billion in under 18 months. The startup is building open-standard networking fabric to connect AI chips from different manufacturers, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI data center switches as spending approaches $100 billion annually by 2030.

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Upscale AI raises $190 million to build networking infrastructure for the AI era, hits $2B valuation

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SK hynix files for $29 billion Nasdaq listing to fund AI memory fabs and advanced packaging plants

SK hynix is raising up to $29 billion through a Nasdaq listing on July 10, channeling all proceeds into advanced AI memory fabrication facilities and EUV equipment. The move comes as the company overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable listed company, riding the wave of surging demand for high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI systems.

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SK hynix files for $29 billion Nasdaq listing to fund AI memory fabs and advanced packaging plants

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