AI Industry & Funding

• A Nov 11, 2026 SpaceX's Kessel Rack Swaps NVLink Cables for an 84-Layer Midplane SpaceX reportedly plans a custom Vera Rubin NVL72 variant, Kessel, that replaces NVLink cables with an 84-layer PCB midplane for ground and orbital us...
• A Nov 11, 2026 SoftBank Cancels $3.7 Billion in Gas Turbine Reservations as AI Power Bets Shift SoftBank is canceling turbine reservations that cost it $3.7 billion, shifting its AI power strategy while disputing claims it defaulted on its orders...
• A Nov 11, 2026 ASRock Ships VBIOS 1.0.6 for Radeon RX 7900 Cards With No Changelog ASRock's new VBIOS 1.0.6 for Radeon RX 7000 cards arrives with no changelog, after 1.0.5 reportedly left some RX 7900 XT and XTX cards unbootable.
• A Nov 11, 2026 Montech King 95 3D Pro Review: Three Glass Panels, Strong CPU Cooling, Loud Fans Montech's King 95 3D adds a top glass panel to the curved-glass King 95. We test the $199.90 Pro with seven fans for thermals, noise and build fit.
• A Nov 11, 2026 Kora's Linux Desktop Splits AI Across CPU, GPU and NPU, but Only Snapdragon X2 Elite Works Today Kora, a Linux desktop from Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster, splits local AI across CPU, GPU and NPU. Only Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite is supporte...
• A Nov 11, 2026 AMD's MEXT Aims to Halve Server DRAM by Predicting Which Memory Pages You'll Need AMD's MEXT moves cold memory pages to flash and uses a predictive AI model to bring them back, claiming 95% of full-server performance at half the DRA...
• A Nov 11, 2026 SpaceX Plans $24 Billion Gas-Fired AI Compute Site in Starbase, Texas SpaceX's proposed $24 billion gas-fired compute campus in Starbase, Texas, could test how much local control a company town really offers.
• A Nov 11, 2026 Fiber Optic Shortage Squeezes Ukrainian Drone Output as AI Data Centers Absorb Supply AI data center demand has pushed fiber optic cable prices up six to 10 times, and Ukraine's drone makers are feeling it first.
• A Nov 11, 2026 Newegg's 9800X3D Bundle Undercuts Standalone 32GB DDR5 Pricing A Newegg combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5-6000 and an X870E board for $1,059.98, putting the memory well below standalone prices.
• A Nov 11, 2026 Water-Cooled PC Sends Its Heat Outdoors Through a Valve-Controlled Radiator A Reddit builder routed his water-cooled PC loop to an outdoor radiator, using an Arduino and dew-point logic to keep the room from overheating in win...
• A Nov 11, 2026 LinkedIn's Frequent Viewer Test Flags Repeat Profile Visitors LinkedIn is testing a Frequent Viewer tag for Premium users. It shows who keeps returning to your profile, which can be useful or unsettling.
• A Nov 11, 2026 AMD's Epyc 6 Pushes Core Density and Clock Speed for AI Agent Workloads AMD's Venice-generation Epyc 6 lineup pairs 256-core density with 5.3 GHz parts, aimed at running large numbers of AI agents on CPUs.
• A Nov 10, 2026 AMD Says Zen 6 Wasn't Built for Agentic AI, and Its Argument Is About Range AMD's Zen 6 Venice CPUs weren't designed for agentic AI, executives say. Their pitch is that agent workloads need a range of CPUs, not one SKU.
• A Nov 10, 2026 AMD's EPYC Embedded 9006 Brings Zen 6 Cores to Chip Test and Network Gear AMD's EPYC Embedded 9006 SP7 chips bring up to 256 Zen 6 cores to chip test rigs, firewalls and storage, with PCIe Gen 6 and fast DDR5 memory.
• A Nov 10, 2026 AMD EPYC Venice Brings Zen 6 With 27% Average IPC Gain Over Zen 5 AMD's first Zen 6 chips, EPYC Venice, show a 27% average IPC uplift over Zen 5 in data center workloads, built on TSMC's N2P node.
• A Nov 10, 2026 Alice Huang's Alleged Role in Routing Nvidia AI Chips Into China An investigation ties Alice Huang to Megaspeed and Shanghai Century Litong, with claims of 240,000 banned chips and $7.5 billion in GPU imports.
• A Nov 10, 2026 Staera Bets on Light Inside the Chip With $4.6M Pre-Seed Round Staera's $4.6M pre-seed round funds Lightwire, an on-chip optical interconnect it says could replace copper links between AI accelerator chiplets.
• A Nov 10, 2026 PuppyGraph Raises $10M to Let AI Agents Query Warehouse Data as a Graph PuppyGraph raised $10M to scale its query engine, which lets AI agents traverse warehouse and lakehouse tables as one graph without migrating data.
• A Nov 10, 2026 M5 Ultra Mac Studio vs. DGX Spark: Where Local AI Performance Holds Up A 256GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio beats a DGX Spark on agentic tasks and energy use, but for the largest models the software stack decides the winner.
• A Nov 10, 2026 Terafab's 1 Million Wafer Target Leaves Its Memory Plans Open Terafab's reported post-2032 target of 1 million wafers a month would rival Samsung's DRAM output, but its memory process and partners remain undisclo...
• A Nov 10, 2026 Steam Shows Average Framerates From Real Players Before You Buy Steam is adding opt-in framerate data to game pages, starting with Steam Deck. Shoppers can see average FPS from matching hardware before they buy.