Google Cloud Secures Thinking Machines Lab with Multi-Billion AI Deal

AMD announced a new Helios rack-scale AI system designed to compete with Nvidia's offerings in the data center market. The system will begin shipping to customers later in 2026. This move represents AMD's effort to capture share in the high-demand AI infrastructure segment where Nvidia currently dominates.

Nvidia is deploying GPUs to lunar missions, extending the company's hardware reach beyond Earth-based data centers and AI applications. The move signals Nvidia's strategy to position its processors as essential infrastructure across multiple domains, including space exploration. Details on specific missions, timelines, and technical specifications are limited in available reporting.

Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, has raised funding at a $10.3 billion valuation by developing chips and memory components designed to accelerate AI model inference without requiring GPUs. The company claims its hardware can speed up inference across any AI model. The funding round attracted backing from major investors, signaling confidence in the alternative chip approach to AI acceleration.

The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security is formally investigating whether Chinese AI companies like Moonshot are improperly accessing advanced American chips and training models on intellectual property from U.S. labs such as Anthropic. Trump administration officials have publicly accused Moonshot and other Chinese open source AI firms of stealing IP from American AI developers. If the investigation concludes misconduct occurred, the Commerce Department could add Moonshot to its entity list, restricting access to U.S. advanced chip technology.