AI news flash: Japanese electronics component giant TDK announced it will acquire US startup Fabric8Labs for up to $400 million, officially entering the fast-growing AI data center cooling market. Fabric8Labs’ core technology applies 3D printing to the manufacturing of cooling components, more efficiently dissipating the heat generated during GPU compute. Compared to traditional air or liquid cooling, 3D…
AI News Flash: The official GitHub blog introduces a way to boost Copilot CLI’s code understanding: installing and configuring an LSP (Language Server Protocol) server. The traditional approach relies on brute-force search (grep) or decompilation to understand code structure, which only does string matching and lacks real understanding of types, symbol definitions, and references. With LSP…
AI news flash: Meta announces partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to build a 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking Meta’s first AI infrastructure investment in India. The facility will run on renewable energy, cooled by desalinated seawater, with all energy and water costs fully covered by Meta. The data center is expected to be completed within two years and gradually scale capacity, serving not only the Indian market but also integrating into Meta’s global AI computing network.
AI News Flash: At the Nikkei Asia ‘Future of Asia 2026’ summit, Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour warned that the energy crisis triggered by a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz is spreading into broader economic areas, hitting industrial raw material supply, logistics, food prices, and tourism, and putting multi-front downward pressure on Asian economies. Beyond the Iran geopolitical risk, the forum also focused on the potential threat AI disinformation poses to regional stability…
AI news flash: Google announced Monday it’s cutting Google AI Plus’s monthly price from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the plan’s cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with the update rolling out to existing subscribers over the coming days. Launched this January, Google AI Plus is positioned as the cheapest paid AI subscription plan in the US market, aimed mainly at…
AI News Flash: Japan’s Mitsubishi HC Capital plans to partner with Canadian investment group Brookfield to acquire renewable energy plants across Europe through a UK joint venture, targeting wind and solar farms in markets like the UK and France. The deal is driven by the rapid expansion of AI technology, which is pushing global electricity demand sharply higher and significantly boosting the strategic value of renewable assets. Mitsubishi HC Capital has long focused on equipment leasing and infrastructure financing…
AI News Flash: Apple kicked off WWDC 2026 at its Cupertino campus under two unusual circumstances — CEO Tim Cook announced he’ll hand the reins to hardware engineering SVP John Ternus on September 1, making this his last WWDC, and expectations were sky-high for Apple to finally catch up on AI after two rough years for Siri and core software…
AI News Flash: Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, California on June 8, announcing a series of AI feature updates across its devices, driven largely by a deepening partnership with Google. CEO Tim Cook waved to the crowd in what marked his final WWDC appearance as CEO, telling the audience Apple’s ‘best days are still ahead.’ Still, the conference’s most notable absence was…
AI News Flash: MetaMask has recently launched a self-custodial wallet supporting token swaps, perpetual futures trading, prediction markets, and liquidity provision across Ethereum-compatible networks and Hyperliquid. Its security system offers up to $10,000 in loss protection when it determines a transaction is safe. The product is currently limited to select users in an early access program, with broader availability expected later this summer. This wave of AI agent wallets…
AI News Flash: OpenAI has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), formally kicking off the pre-IPO process. The S-1 is the mandatory filing for U.S. companies going public, and a confidential submission means OpenAI hasn’t disclosed financial details publicly yet — it keeps negotiating room and doesn’t tip its financials to competitors before a formal listing. The company says there’s no confirmed timeline for what comes next…