Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026
Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026

Figma used the opening keynote of its Config 2026 conference on Wednesday to unveil code layers, a feature that brings executable code directly onto the collaborative design canvas. Teams can now clone repositories and extract flows from code into desi…

Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office
Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office

Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is no…

China Telecom’s $1.7bn server deal hands Huawei a big win
China Telecom’s $1.7bn server deal hands Huawei a big win

China Telecom just ordered 40,000 servers worth $1.7bn. Huawei did not even bid, yet its ecosystem walked away with the bulk of the deal. That is not an accident. It is the template. A state-owned Chinese carrier has handed Huawei a major win without H…

Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance
Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance

Qualcomm, the king of the smartphone modem, is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance. The move would help it escape a shrinking phone market. It also shows US chipmakers will not give up on China. Qualcomm wants to be a chip designer for the AI…

China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips
China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips

A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. …

Cerebras doubled its revenue. The stock fell anyway.
Cerebras doubled its revenue. The stock fell anyway.

Cerebras nearly doubled its revenue and guided 2026 sales above Wall Street’s estimates. Its stock still fell about 10%. The reason was a margin squeeze, caused not by a shortage of chips but by a shortage of buildings. Cerebras just learned the price …

OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.
OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.

OpenAI just showed off Jalapeño, its first home-grown AI chip, built with Broadcom. It is designed for inference, not training. And it is the clearest sign yet that the company most dependent on Nvidia wants a way out. OpenAI has a chip now. On Wednesd…

Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders
Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders

For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of well-funded com…

A Princeton grad’s $30M AI detector is selling to Superhuman
A Princeton grad’s $30M AI detector is selling to Superhuman

Superhuman, the company that used to be Grammarly, just bought GPTZero, the startup that catches AI writing. The contradiction is the point. As the internet fills with machine-made text, proving something is human is becoming a product. There is a neat…

Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush
Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush

Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a…