On theCUBE Pod: Midterms send shockwaves through AI market – SiliconANGLE

On theCUBE Pod: Midterms send shockwaves through AI market – SiliconANGLE

The very blue results of last week’s midterms have sent technology investors into a tailspin. With many successful candidates running on platforms opposing data centers and calling for greater restrictions on artificial intelligence, investors anticipate a slowdown in AI spending. Tech stocks fell, with a collective loss of $2.5 trillion in market cap, and the Nasdaq dropped more than 5.5%. …

Hardware-testing and engineering startup Nominal raises 0M at B valuation – SiliconANGLE

Hardware-testing and engineering startup Nominal raises $240M at $3B valuation – SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence-powered hardware-testing and engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced it raised $240 million in new funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Insight Partners. The investment triples the company’s valuation to $3 billion, up from $1 billion cemented in March after it raised $80 million in a Series B-2 funding round. Additional major investors in the Series C round included …

Leak reveals details for more iPhone 18 models launching early 2027 – 9to5Mac

Leak reveals details for more iPhone 18 models launching early 2027 – 9to5Mac

Apple is rumored to have three new iPhone models launching in early 2027: iPhone 18, iPhone 18e, and iPhone Air 2. Here’s what to expect from the iPhone 18 models per the latest leak. iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e could share more specs than ever, per leak Last year when the AI-driven memory crisis started escalating, reports indicated that Apple …

Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max – SiliconANGLE

Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max – SiliconANGLE

Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference. At Google Cloud Next 2026 in April, Google introduced two specialized TPUs in the same generation, 8t for large-scale training and 8i designed for real-time reasoning. At the time, the company said it released …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy – SiliconANGLE

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy – SiliconANGLE

Nvidia Corp. said on Sunday it’s launching an “independent investigation” into reports that its founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence plot, shortly after he admitted he “had been intimate” with a Singapore-based executive whom U.S. officials accuse of spying for China. In response to the allegations, the Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committee …

Nvidia Tightens AI Chip Tracking in Southeast Asia as China Smuggling Concerns Grow

Nvidia Tightens AI Chip Tracking in Southeast Asia as China Smuggling Concerns Grow

Nvidia’s AI chips are some of the hottest hardware on the planet. Now, the company wants a clearer idea of where they’re headed. The chipmaker is reportedly tightening oversight of its powerful GPUs in Southeast Asia. According to people familiar with the policy who spoke to Bloomberg, companies seeking official Nvidia Cloud Partner status in the region must now enroll …