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NVIDIA and SK's $500B deal: what the 2GW actually commits
SK Group and NVIDIA announced a $500 billion-plus partnership on July 24. The instrument is letters of intent. What is named is a 2GW AI factory for 2027, plus HBM4.
By Stéphane Cardon
IBM buys HRL: 18 spin qubits and a 300mm fab
IBM is buying HRL Laboratories from Boeing and GM. The release has no price and no qubit count. We read the April paper that does: 54 dots, 18 qubits.
iOS 26.6 is out: the Spotlight index it quietly builds
Apple shipped iOS 26.6 on July 27. One line of the release note matters: it rebuilds the Spotlight index that the new Siri in iOS 27 will read.
Google's €890M DMA fine: what changes in 60 days
The EU fined Google €890M on July 23 in its first DMA decisions against the company. The money is trivial. The cease and desist order attached to it is not.
Kimi K3 open weights land July 27: the 1.4TB catch
Moonshot ships the Kimi K3 weights by July 27. At 2.8 trillion parameters in MXFP4 that is about 1.4 TB, and Moonshot itself recommends 64 or more accelerators.
Cursor agent swarm: SQLite for $1,339 and the 15x catch
Cursor swarmed agents at the 835-page SQLite manual and got a working Rust database for $1,339. The 15x cost gap being quoted needs a run Cursor left out.
AMD Helios vs Vera Rubin NVL72: the MI455X numbers
AMD launched Helios on July 23: 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31TB of HBM4, and a claim of 30% more tokens per dollar than Vera Rubin NVL72. We read the footnotes.
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