Pixel 11 Arrives — Google's First Phones Designed for Gemini Intelligence, Powered by Tensor G6
Google's Pixel 11 series — including the Pro Fold — ships with Tensor G6, its fastest chip yet, running the latest Gemini Nano model on-device for the full Gemini Intelligence experience.
OpenAI's AI Smart Speaker Shaped Like a Donut Will Cost $300–$400
Bloomberg reports OpenAI's first hardware device — a donut-shaped, AI-powered smart speaker designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio — will sell for $300–$400, launching in 2027. The high-quality metal device features 'moving parts' and is described as the 'physical manifestation' of ChatGPT.
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Secretive 'Universal' AI Interface
AI lab Hark, founded by robotics entrepreneur Brett Adcock, raised $700M in Series A funding to build a universal AI personal assistant with custom hardware, backed by Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Salesforce.
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
Hark raised $700M in a Series A for its secretive universal AI interface, with first multimodal models due this summer and dedicated hardware devices to follow.
Cerebras Runs Trillion-Parameter AI Model Nearly 7x Faster Than GPU Clouds in Landmark Inference Test
Cerebras Systems announced it runs Moonshot AI's trillion-parameter Kimi K2.6 model at 981 tokens per second, 6.7x faster than the fastest GPU cloud provider, in an independently verified benchmark.
Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs
NVIDIA hand-delivered its first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, followed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — an 88-core custom processor purpose-built for agentic AI workloads.