Brett Adcock's Hark Raises $700M for AI Interface
Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark has closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation before shipping a single product, with chip companies AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all backing the bet.
Articles Tagged "Hardware"
Android XR Glasses Land with Samsung and Warby Parker
Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.
LetinAR Scores $18M for the Optics Behind AI Glasses
South Korean startup LetinAR raises $18.5M to scale its PinTILT optical modules, which already power AI glasses and AR helmets as shipments hit 8.7 million units globally in 2025.
Lumai Iris Nova: Optical AI Inference Server
Lumai's optical AI inference server uses light-based computing to run billion-parameter LLMs with up to 90% less power than GPUs.
Skymizer HTX301: 700B LLMs at 240W on PCIe
Skymizer's HTX301 uses six 28nm chips and 384 GB LPDDR5 to run 700B-parameter LLMs on a single PCIe card at just 240W.
AMD Helios: 72-GPU Rack for AI at Scale
AMD Helios packs 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs and 31 TB HBM4 into a single rack delivering 2.9 FP4 ExaFLOPS for AI workloads.
Google Turns to SpaceX for Orbital AI Data Centers
Bloomberg reports Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch its Project Suncatcher satellites - TPU-equipped spacecraft designed to run ML workloads in low Earth orbit.
NVIDIA Ising Review: AI Models for Quantum Hardware
NVIDIA Ising is the first open AI model family for quantum computing - a 35B VLM for processor calibration and CNN decoders for real-time error correction, already deployed at 20+ research institutions.
Cerebras IPO 20x Oversubscribed Signals AI Chip Crunch
Cerebras Systems raised its IPO price to $150-$160 per share after investors placed over $10 billion in orders on a $3.5 billion offering - 20 times oversubscribed.
OpenAI's 2028 Phone Would Replace Apps With AI Agents
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims OpenAI is building a smartphone with Qualcomm and MediaTek where AI agents replace traditional apps, targeting 2028 mass production.
Google Virgo Network Ends the Datacenter Scaling Tax
Google's Virgo Network connects 134K TPU chips at 47 petabits per second using a flat two-layer topology that removes the bandwidth degradation cluster operators have engineered around for years.
Google's Four-Chip Plan to Own AI Inference at Scale
Google splits its next TPU generation across Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, and Intel to win inference economics, revealed ahead of Cloud Next 2026.
