#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Mistral raises $830M for data center with Nvidia chips, intensifies AI race in Europe
French Mistral AI has secured $830M in debt financing for a data center near Paris to house Nvidia chips and accelerate European AI infrastructure.
Bank of Russia Seeks Run:ai Alternative, Prepares Neural Networks for Industrial Scale
Bank of Russia has begun searching for a domestic platform to manage GPU clusters at the level of Run:ai — this may signal a shift by the regulator from AI pilots…
Rebellions raises $400M pre-IPO at $2.34B valuation, eyes US market
South Korean Rebellions closed a pre-IPO round for $400M, bringing total fundraising in six months to $650M, and now targets US clients at the scale of Meta and xAI.
Cognizant buys Astreya for $600M to strengthen enterprise AI infrastructure
DeepSeek V4 Drives Demand for Huawei Ascend 950 Among ByteDance and Alibaba
The Qwen team released FlashQLA: accelerating linear attention up to 3× on NVIDIA Hopper
Cambricon Doubled Quarterly Revenue Amid AI Chip Demand Boom in China
Bernie Sanders Urges US and China to Rein In the "Runaway AI Train"
Bernie Sanders called for international AI regulation after a panel with Chinese scientists, warning of risks from unemployment, disinformation, and privacy loss.
SoftBank-Backed Deal Worth $999M: Market Continues Pouring Money Into AI Data Centers
A data center developer is placing nearly $1 billion in high-yield debt backed by a facility leased by a SoftBank subsidiary, testing whether the market remains…
DeepSeek, Google, and Meta: 10 Techniques for LLM KV-Cache Compression to Reduce Inference Memory
Meta tumbles after raising 2026 AI and data center capex forecast
Fresh Apple and Nvidia earnings reveal where the AI infrastructure market is heading
OpenAI achieves key US AI capacity milestone ahead of schedule, accelerating data center expansion
Lightelligence soars 400% after Hong Kong IPO: betting on optical interconnect for AI
Lightelligence shares nearly quadrupled on the first day of trading in Hong Kong: investors are betting that the bottleneck in AI infrastructure won't be chips, but…
Victory Giant Reports 28% Sales Growth Amid AI Server Demand
PCB supplier Victory Giant reported quarterly sales growth of 28% as AI server manufacturers expand their component purchases for data centers.