SEMIFIVE has begun mass production of Bertha, a data center AI inference accelerator developed for fellow South Korean company HyperAccel, the custom semiconductor firm announced on September 8, 2026. The chip is manufactured on Samsung Foundry’s 4nm process node and marks SEMIFIVE’s first large-scale mass production project on that advanced node. Following the initial production…
Arm on September 8, 2026, introduced the Mali G2-Ultra NX, its first Mali GPU with dedicated neural accelerators integrated directly into the shader cores, in a newsroom post by Senior Product Manager Deyan Lazarov. The GPU is the graphics component of Arm CSS for Mobile 2, a compute platform the company announced the same day…
XPeng Inc. has commissioned production lines for humanoid robots at its manufacturing facility and completed the line production of its first advanced humanoid robot, which walked off the lines autonomously, the company announced on September 7, 2026. The Guangzhou-based company described the event as a transition from research-and-development prototyping to line manufacturing for its next-generation…
The PyTorch Foundation said Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon have joined as Platinum members and Ant Group has joined as a Gold member, a grouping the organization framed around the open AI stack at its conference in Shanghai. The foundation announced the new memberships on September 8, 2026, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit +…
Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic partnership on September 8, 2026, under which OpenAI will contract dedicated AI compute capacity from two Firmus AI Factory sites in Malaysia. The agreement makes OpenAI an anchor customer of Firmus and pushes the Sydney-headquartered company’s total contracted capacity across all customers beyond…
Grupo Financiero Inbursa, one of Mexico’s largest financial institutions, has deployed Harvey’s legal AI platform across its legal team, Harvey announced on September 7, 2026. The rollout covers the group’s litigation operations first, with further legal workflows scheduled to follow as adoption widens across the organization. The Mexico City-based financial group is using the platform…
Matt Clifford is stepping down as founding chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, the UK government’s high-risk research funding body, five days after taking a full-time government-affairs job at Anthropic. Clifford announced his decision on September 7, 2026, and ARIA confirmed that he will remain in post on an interim basis, in agreement…
Hyosung Heavy Industries said on September 7, 2026, that it is accelerating its push into the U.S. AI data center power market, combining the 22.9kV solid-state transformer it developed in 2022 with completed American production bases for ultra-high-voltage transformers and circuit breakers. In the announcement, issued from Seoul, the company said surging power demand driven…
Foundation models are large, broadly trained models that can be adapted to many downstream tasks through prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, or additional components. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Researchers from Insilico Medicine and an international group of academic collaborators have applied six independently developed proteomic aging clocks to blood samples from a Phase IIa trial of the AI-designed drug rentosertib, finding that all six models consistently predicted lower biological age in treated patients. The study, published September 7, 2026 in Nature Biotechnology, is…