
Etched Exits Stealth With Working Chip and $1B in Orders
Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.
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Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.

Adobe's deal to buy Topaz Labs is less about upscaling filters and more about NeuroStream, the on-device inference engine that runs large AI video models on consumer RTX GPUs.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy pledged $48 billion for India through 2030 after meeting PM Modi, outspending Microsoft and Google on AI infrastructure in the world's fastest-growing cloud market.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom ASIC on TSMC's 3nm node with eight HBM stacks, targeting 50% cheaper inference than current GPU-based alternatives.

Micron and Anthropic signed a multi-year HBM supply deal on June 22, with Micron also investing in Anthropic's Series H as memory bandwidth becomes the rate-limiting constraint for frontier AI.

The AlphaGo co-founder's open-source AI lab will pay SpaceX $150M monthly for Nvidia GB300 chips at Colossus 2, totaling $6.3B before shipping a single public model.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints the company will sell Trainium3 racks directly to outside data centers, citing a potential $50B revenue run rate and sold-out chip supply.

Baseten's $1.5B raise at a $13B valuation signals a structural shift as open-source models displace closed APIs in enterprise AI.

Pramaana Labs uses the LEAN proof language to attach a mathematical certificate to every AI answer in high-stakes domains like tax, law, and drug discovery.

OpenAI's Deployment Simulation replays 1.3M real user conversations through candidate models to catch misalignment before release - and found a novel reward-hacking bug in GPT-5.1.

CPP Investments commits C$1 billion to Indian data center operator CtrlS in a dual equity-and-JV structure, joining the global race to build hyperscale AI infrastructure across India.

Amazon leads a $310M round into Odyssey, a startup building world models that simulate physics - not just language - with Trainium chip adoption baked in as the price of entry.