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The Stack

Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX inference chip enters full production

Nvidia commercialized its largest acquisition at Hot Chips 2026 on Monday, while a New York startup betting that video games can teach robots how to move pulled in fresh capital at a $6 billion valuation. Here's what moved in AI hardware and physical AI. Nvidia said its dedicated inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production, turning the company's record $20 billion purchase of Groq into a shipping product. The chip is built as an extension of the Vera Rubin data center platform,

The Guardrails

Taiwan's AI-server indictment exposes the gap in chip export controls

Prosecutors in Keelung charged nine people — including an Nvidia employee and two Super Micro staff — with helping high-end AI servers reach China, in a scheme that leaned on forged paperwork and multi-stop transit. It is the cleanest public window yet into how the chip black market actually moves hardware, and it underscores that export controls only matter if the people holding the paperwork enforce them. What happened, and who's charged Taiwanese prosecutors on Monday indicted nine defenda

The Guardrails

Taiwan indicts nine over AI servers allegedly smuggled to China

Taiwan's export-control enforcement just got sharply personal. Prosecutors in Keelung indicted nine people — including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro — for allegedly helping high-end AI servers reach China despite US and Taiwan bans, in a case that confirms the black market around frontier chips is alive and well. Taiwanese prosecutors in the northern city of Keelung indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly colluding to illegally export AI servers to

The Guardrails

AWS patches SDK flaw that turned a region into credential theft

A cloud and silicon day: Amazon quietly closed a class of bug that let a region field leak live credentials, and China's homegrown AI-chip push got a fresh public-market test with Enflame's STAR Market launch. AWS quietly patched a flaw across seven of its software development kits after security firm Pi Inc. traced one bug report to roughly 2,500 copies of the same defect. The weakness sits in how the SDKs assemble an endpoint: the region value drops into the middle of a hostname like https://

The Arena

Thomson Reuters builds its own legal AI instead of renting from OpenAI

Thomson Reuters builds its own legal AI instead of renting from OpenAI Thomson Reuters launched "Thomson," its first in-house language model for legal work — built on Alibaba's open Qwen rather than fine-tuning a frontier model from OpenAI or Anthropic, a bet on owning AI instead of renting it. The company says it spent about $40 million over two years on the project (the final training run alone came to roughly $450,000). Thomson starts from Alibaba's Qwen — most recently Qwen3.5-397B — which

The Frontier

ShengShu lays out a five-level roadmap to general world models

ShengShu founder Zhu Jun used a World Robot Conference keynote to put a name and structure on where embodied AI is heading: a five-level roadmap for a general world model he argues must unify generating the world, interacting with it, and acting inside it — not a stack of separate models bolted together. Zhu, the ACM/IEEE/AAAI fellow who built video model Vidu, described the general world model as a closed loop rather than a single generator or robot policy: a system that understands the world,

The Guardrails

Ireland reconsiders its nuclear ban as data centres eat a quarter of the grid

Ireland is Europe's data-centre capital, and it's running out of cheap ways to power the AI boom. Lawmakers are now reopening a debate the country closed in 1999, when it banned nuclear power — a sign of how hard the AI buildout is bending national energy policy in the world's smaller grids. Ireland is reconsidering its 1999 ban on nuclear power, driven by data centres that now account for about a quarter of the country's electricity use. The Financial Times reports that politicians are reopeni

The Stack

IBM's dual-architecture chip brings Arm-native AI to mainframes

IBM's dual-architecture chip brings Arm-native AI to mainframes IBM used the Hot Chips 2026 conference to unveil the first concrete product to come out of the strategic partnership it signed with Arm back in April — a new dual-architecture processor designed to run both IBM's z/OS and Arm-native Linux workloads on the same cores, a first for the mainframe world. The unnamed chip will power the next-generation IBM Z mainframes and LinuxONE systems, and in doing so it aims to pull Arm's sprawling

The Guardrails

Autonomous Russian drone killed three in a strike Ukraine calls a first

A fully autonomous, AI-guided Russian drone killed three Ukrainians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia — an attack Ukrainian officials describe as a milestone in weaponry untethered from human control. Two developments anchor the morning: the deadly autonomous strike itself, and the quiet fact that the computer guiding it is the kind of civilian chip Nvidia sells for robot vacuums and machine-vision toys. Ukraine says a fully autonomous Russian drone — guided by an off-the-shelf Nvidia chip — kil

The Stack

How to — run a local LLM

Running a large language model on your own machine means your prompts don't go to a cloud provider, there's no per-token bill, and the assistant still answers when the network drops. Here's how to go from zero to a working local model in six moves, even if you've never done it before. 1. Size the model to the memory you actually have The single decision that decides the whole project is memory — the model's files have to sit in RAM (or your graphics card's memory) while it runs, alongside eve

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Cerebras CS-4 doubles accelerator performance on the same chip

A new rack-scale AI accelerator, a nine-figure robotics raise, and fresh evidence that chatbots quietly steer sensitive-health decisions — all in the last few hours. Cerebras has introduced the CS-4, a rack-scale AI accelerator its CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The machine still runs on the same 5nm WSE-3 wafer as its predecessor, but Cerebras says it doubles the CS-3's performance by pushing clock speed higher through more power and better cooling. A single rack

The Everyday

Business schools race to groom chief AI officers

The newest C-suite job barely had a job description a year ago, yet demand for chief AI officers has exploded — and business schools are scrambling to supply the talent. The result is a fast-growing market for executive AI credentials that are being built while the role itself is still being defined. Business schools are racing to train the next generation of chief AI officers, turning the newest C-suite seat into a hot credential market even as companies admit they're still inventing the job a

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