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Suno, the AI music-generation company, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $400 million Series D round, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. It was only about seven months ago that Suno raised at a $2.45 billion valuation, underscoring that investors are confident in the

Samsung shows first HBM5 mockup with Heat Path Block cooling — thermal race with SK hynix shaping up Both memory leaders now target the same die-to-die hotspot with rival in-package cooling designs. Samsung displayed its first physical mockup of HBM5 memory at Computex 2026 in Ta

Computex 2026 Day Two Wrap-Up: Intel atones for Arrow Lake, Wi-Fi 8 comes into focus Here's what happened on Computex Day Two Computex 2026 is well underway, and we’ve provided you with pre-show coverage and all the official announcements this week. You can catch our Day One cove

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Corsair launches lightweight budget-friendly HS35 v3 gaming headsets — wired version weighs a cool 230 grams Ultra light in both weight and price. Corsair showed off the latest iteration of its lightweight gaming headset lineup — the Corsair HS35 v3 headset, in both wired and wir

The age of robotaxis, long the preserve of science fiction, is now a reality, at least in a handful of American cities. It took just over a decade to get from the DARPA Grand Challenges to the start of Waymo’s commercial service in California, albeit initially with a safety drive

Noctua shows off improved thermosiphon prototype — passively circulated liquid cooler gets Q3 2027 projected launch date Simple in principle, challenging in execution Tom's Hardware got a chance to visit Noctua's booth at Computex 2026, and we went deep on two key products for th

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe isn’t just that it can reason through a situation — it’s that i

At Computex 2026, we found the AMD Ryzen AI Halo machine, an AI developer PC that is designed to bring AMD’s local agentic AI stack to desktops near you. A few days ago, Ryan covered it as AMD Details Ryzen AI Halo AI Dev Mini-PC, Pre-Orders In June For $3999. Still, we had quest

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t simply developing stronger models. It’s building a full work

Samsung rolls out 2026 Odyssey gaming monitors, including 5K and 6K models — 27 to 32 inches with up to 330 Hz refresh rate Samsung refreshes its Odyssey gaming monitors for 2026 We’ve seen numerous announcements from major players in the gaming monitor space over the past few da

Customer support and service are among the hottest sectors in voice AI right now. But building a product that sounds human and responds without noticeable delay turns out to be much harder in some markets than others — and most of the major players weren’t built with Africa and t

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AMD executives react to Nvidia’s RTX Spark — ‘you’re just wrong if you don’t get a Strix Halo notebook’ AMD welcomes the competition, and postures that it has the superior platform. Regardless of your opinion of Nvidia’s RTX Spark, there’s no doubt that it’s the most consequentia

Developer platform GitLab has laid off about 14% of its workforce, about 350 employees, as part of a broader restructuring effort it detailed last month. The company said in May that it was going to reduce its workforce as it exited 22 countries, flattened management layers, and

The U.K. has just imposed legal guardrails on Google’s AI search onslaught. On Wednesday, Google announced compliance with the U.K.’s regulatory requirements, which state that the tech giant must offer publishers a way to opt out of being aggregated into AI search. To opt out, pu

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AI Factories Go Utility-Scale as Siemens Debuts 100 MW IT Design New reference architecture combines battery storage, electrical systems, cooling, and Nvidia Rubin technology for 100 MW-class AI facilities. AI infrastructure vendors are pushing beyond servers and cooling as data

TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new stand-alone app in the U.S. dedicated to cultural milestones like the upcoming FIFA World Cup. The new app, called TikTok Pro Events, allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creato

At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positio

If we look back at the year of 2026 so far, it might be easy to see cybersecurity falling by the wayside, as much of the world’s attention remains on wars raging, the climate worsening, and we’re seemingly just one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But cybersecurit

As search becomes increasingly dominated by AI summaries and commercial content, people are experimenting and coming up with ways to make the web feel more human like it used to, building everything from “small web” search engines to decentralized social networks. One of the newe

Meta's effort to push beyond ads and to make money from artificial intelligence is now targeting the red-hot market of AI agents. The company said Wednesday that a new Meta Business Agent feature can be used across apps like WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram to respond to custome

A year after Mark Zuckerberg installed Alexandr Wang to jolt Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts into wartime mode, the $1.5 trillion company has produced Muse Spark, its most credible AI model yet. By handing responsibility for Meta’s AI revival to a then-28-year-old start-up

Counterfeit G.Skill and V-Color DDR5 modules hit Chinese marketplaces, impacting company sales — cheap contraband memory using identical PCBs and heat spreaders almost impossible to spot But can they work as advertised? Representatives told Tom's Hardware at Computex 2026 that co

NZXT showcases H6 mid-tower chassis, new Ultra RGB fans, and a white H2 offering — boundless RGB customization options take this case to a whole new level Up your RGB game with the new H6 chassis and Ultra RGB fans Tom's Hardware stopped by NZXT at Computex 2026 to get a look at

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. If you have a teen looking for a summer job, the highest-paying gigs might not be what you'd expect. Stock futures are mixed this morning after a modestly positive

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps Microsoft ditches Windows to build OS on Android Microsoft has unveiled Project Solar

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Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify The voluntary framework avoids mandatory licensing but gives the government a say in which f

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OpenAI chief Sam Altman will be attending the G7 conference in France later this month, CNBC has learned, as President Emmanuel Macron steps up efforts to court tech leaders across the globe in support of the country's AI ambitions. France is hosting 2026's G7 conference — an ann

For decades, scientists have understood that plants can release volatile organic compounds—essentially airborne chemical signals—to attract the natural enemies of the things that eat them, like caterpillars. What we didn’t know was exactly how a plant translates the physical act

Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts — luxury goods sales rocket nearly 150% in Gyeonggi Province semiconductor belt Luxury jewelry sales rose by 146.3% in one local department store. Prestigious watch and accessories brands are also doing v

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