Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRA

Mounting the wafer-scale engines vertically in the backpack modules lets Cerebras do away with a PCB or substrate for the wafer to handle all its supporting infrastructure. Instead, the backpack connects the large copper…

Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups’ issues with $19.4B facility range from i

DataOne’s actions in New Jersey directly contradict the promise Microsoft made back in January 2026 , and residents are asking the tech giant to stand by its word. Although the concerns about air and noise pollution are …

Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

The archive consists of old Steam content-server data from 2003 to 2013, overlapping with the timeline of the platform’s upgrade from the old Steam2 system to SteamPipe. Valve used to distribute games via proprietary NCF…

China’s YMTC aims to become the world’s largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

YMTC’s listing turns that position into a funding mechanism. Margins earned at the top of the memory cycle are already paying for domestic tool development, and the IPO adds a capital source that sits outside the reach o…

Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs

While actual percentages and economic terms have not been disclosed, it should work pretty straightforwardly. Nvidia provides a take-or-pay commitment that it rents, say, 30% of the capacity of a newly built facility and…