Samsung has unveiled LPDDR5X-PIM, a new processing-in-memory design detailed at Hot Chips 2026 that the company says delivers up to 2.28 times faster model runtime and eightfold peak bandwidth gains for AI inference workloads.
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip now outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell systems on AI work per watt in benchmark testing, a milestone that signals the growing race among leading AI labs to control their own compute infrastructure.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, closing the human-work marketplace that helped power the data-labelling and annotation work underpinning much of the early machine-learning era.
Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion to settle claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to teenagers, one of the largest settlements yet in the escalating global reckoning over social media's impact on youth mental health.
Dubai-based startup Stellaria has raised AED 25 million, approximately $6.8 million, in a seed funding round backed by angel investors, valuing the company at AED 420 million.
Vietnamese co-living startup M Village, recently rebranded as Modern Village Lifestyle, has raised $26 million in a round led by Japan's Mizuho Asia Partners, more than doubling its valuation to approximately $121.4 million.
South Korean consumer AI company WRTN Technologies has raised approximately $72.2 million in a Series C round from Coreline Ventures, Goodwater Capital and other investors, pushing its valuation above 1 trillion won.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is nearing completion of a funding round that would value the company at roughly $74 billion before new investment, as it seeks around $7 billion from existing backers including Monolith, Shixiang Capital and CATL.
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik AI has raised $200 million in its largest funding round to date, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $500 million.
PwC India Foundation has stepped up efforts to strengthen sustainable livelihoods and women's economic empowerment in Rajasthan, expanding a programme designed to build durable income-generating opportunities in underserved rural communities.