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Bell Canada partners with Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC to build sovereign AI infrastructure

Bell Canada has announced a major partnership with Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ High Performance Computing to develop AI infrastructure in Canada. The collaboration will provide data center capacity, connectivity services, and NVIDIA-powered computing infrastructure to support sovereign AI workloads for government and enterprise customers.

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Bell Canada partners with Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC to build sovereign AI infrastructure

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France emerges as Europe's AI hub with major NVIDIA and Foxconn infrastructure investments

France is rapidly becoming Europe's leading AI destination as global tech giants including NVIDIA, Foxconn, and Mistral AI announce major infrastructure investments. At VivaTech, companies revealed plans for sovereign AI infrastructure, with Mistral AI's 44-megawatt data center already operational with 18,000 NVIDIA GB200 systems and ambitious plans for a 1.4-gigawatt AI campus.

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France emerges as Europe's AI hub with major NVIDIA and Foxconn infrastructure investments

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Midjourney pivots from AI images to full-body scanner with ambitious medical claims

Midjourney, known for its AI image generator, unveiled a full-body ultrasound scanner that promises MRI-quality scans in 60 seconds. The company launched Midjourney Medical and plans to open a San Francisco spa by 2027, but the device lacks FDA clearance and the AI firm has no track record in medical hardware.

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Midjourney pivots from AI images to full-body scanner with ambitious medical claims

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Rumble completes $767M Northern Data acquisition, rebrands to RUM Group and launches Quake AI

Rumble has completed its $767 million acquisition of Northern Data AG, gaining control of approximately 22,000 NVIDIA GPUs across nine data centers. The company is rebranding to RUM Group and launching Quake AI, a new business unit combining cloud infrastructure assets. With over 200 megawatts of unmonetized energy capacity, the move positions Rumble to compete directly with major cloud providers in AI services.

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Rumble completes $767M Northern Data acquisition, rebrands to RUM Group and launches Quake AI

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SK Hynix Ships Next-Generation HBM4E Memory Samples as AI Chip Demand Accelerates Competition

SK Hynix has shipped samples of its latest HBM4E AI memory chips to major customers including Nvidia. The 12-layer chips deliver speeds of 16 gigabits per second per pin and offer over 20% better power efficiency than previous models. The move positions SK Hynix ahead in the race against Samsung and Micron to supply next-generation AI infrastructure.

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SK Hynix Ships Next-Generation HBM4E Memory Samples as AI Chip Demand Accelerates Competition

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Apple price hikes loom as AI drives memory chip costs to unsustainable levels

Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that price increases are unavoidable as memory chip costs have quadrupled due to AI's insatiable demand. The iPhone maker has shielded customers so far but warns the situation has become unsustainable. iPhone price increases appear likely this fall, with ripple effects expected across the entire smartphone industry.

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Apple price hikes loom as AI drives memory chip costs to unsustainable levels

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Amazon AI chief admits models lag OpenAI and Anthropic, aims to catch up within a year

Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis openly acknowledged that the company's models haven't reached frontier level compared to OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite investing $33 billion in Anthropic, Amazon is building its own rival models through Nova2 and plans to compete with leading AI labs within the coming year using custom silicon and proprietary data.

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Amazon AI chief admits models lag OpenAI and Anthropic, aims to catch up within a year

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Jabil raises revenue forecast to $35 billion as AI infrastructure demand surges

Electronics manufacturer Jabil has raised its fiscal 2026 revenue forecast to $35 billion, citing extremely strong AI infrastructure demand. The company now expects AI-related revenue of $13.6 billion, up $500 million from its March forecast, as it expands manufacturing capacity and secures new hyperscale customers.

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Jabil raises revenue forecast to $35 billion as AI infrastructure demand surges

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Allbirds completes AI pivot, rebrands as Smartbird with new CEO and $100M in financing

The once-$4 billion footwear brand Allbirds has officially transformed into Smartbird, an AI infrastructure company. With former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO and $100 million in financing, the company plans to provide managed AI compute services. But it has no data centers, no customers, and no revenue yet—raising questions about whether this strategic shift mirrors past market bubbles.

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Allbirds completes AI pivot, rebrands as Smartbird with new CEO and $100M in financing

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Silicon Motion's PCIe 6.0 SSD roadmap follows Nvidia's AI push, not AMD or Intel's client plans

Silicon Motion is aligning its consumer PCIe 6.0 SSD controller roadmap with Nvidia's bandwidth-hungry AI platforms rather than traditional CPU makers. The company plans to launch its Neptune controller in late 2027, but warns that AI data centers could consume up to 80% of global NAND production by 2027, creating supply constraints and higher prices for consumer storage.

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Silicon Motion's PCIe 6.0 SSD roadmap follows Nvidia's AI push, not AMD or Intel's client plans

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Coherent breaks ground on Texas facility to scale optical backbone for NVIDIA AI infrastructure

Coherent has broken ground on an expanded manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, scaling production of indium phosphide wafers that power optical connections in AI data centers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined the ceremony, highlighting a $2 billion partnership and $50 million CHIPS Act grant. The facility addresses a critical bottleneck as AI systems grow beyond copper's capabilities, requiring silicon photonics to connect hundreds of thousands of processors across massive data centers.

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Coherent breaks ground on Texas facility to scale optical backbone for NVIDIA AI infrastructure

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SiMa.ai slashes Physical AI deployment to days with Palette Neat agentic development tool

AI chip startup SiMa.ai unveiled Palette Neat, the industry's first agentic development environment for Physical AI that reduces deployment timelines from months to days. The open-source tool uses natural language commands to eliminate low-level coding complexity, preserving 90% of legacy software investments while offering a pin-compatible alternative to Nvidia's edge AI solutions.

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SiMa.ai slashes Physical AI deployment to days with Palette Neat agentic development tool

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NVIDIA Blackwell dominates MLPerf Training 6.0 with fastest times and 8,192-GPU scale

NVIDIA Blackwell swept every category in MLPerf Training 6.0, the industry's leading AI training benchmark. The platform achieved the fastest training times across all seven benchmarks, scaled to 8,192 GPUs, and was the only vendor to submit results for every test. GB300 systems delivered up to 60% faster performance than GB200, while competitors failed to submit results for newer workloads.

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NVIDIA Blackwell dominates MLPerf Training 6.0 with fastest times and 8,192-GPU scale

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Nvidia RTX Remix 1.5 brings AI agents to game modding, slashes file sizes by up to 37%

Nvidia's RTX Remix 1.5 update introduces AI agents that help modders remaster classic PC games without coding skills. The update also integrates RTX IO compression, reducing Half-Life 2 RTX from 80GB to 50GB and Portal with RTX from 25GB to 17GB. New Smooth Normals feature makes older geometry look more natural under modern lighting.

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Nvidia RTX Remix 1.5 brings AI agents to game modding, slashes file sizes by up to 37%

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Plaud AI notetaker hits $100M revenue milestone as company plans autonomous AI agent wearable

Plaud has sold over 2 million AI-powered notetaker devices and reached $100 million in annualized revenue run rate, defying the AI hardware slump. The company now plans to launch a new wearable device later this year that integrates with autonomous AI agents, projecting $500 million in sales for 2026.

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Plaud AI notetaker hits $100M revenue milestone as company plans autonomous AI agent wearable

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