Beijing-based generative AI startup Moonshot AI has officially launched its highly anticipated flagship model, Kimi K3. The massive rollout marks the arrival of the world’s first open-weight model in the coveted three-trillion-parameter tier, establishing a direct, highly disruptive challenge to premium, closed-source Western models like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Boasting a staggering 2.8 trillion total parameters, Kimi K3 represents the single largest

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its UK cloud infrastructure with the addition of a fourth Availability Zone to its Europe (London) Region, giving businesses greater capacity for artificial intelligence, machine learning and other demanding workloads. The new Availability Zone, identified as eu-west-2d, increases the number of Availability Zones available to AWS customers in the London Region from three to four. AWS announced the expansion on August 19, 2026, describing

Alphabet subsidiary Waymo has published the hardware architecture of its onboard compute stack, revealing a custom 5-nanometer Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed in-house to power its next-generation driverless vehicles. The custom silicon, manufactured by TSMC, delivers over 1,000 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) of machine learning performance. While initial market reports framed the chip as a total replacement for third-party silicon, Waymo co

Samsung Electronics has approved a massive shareholder return program expected to total between 90 trillion won and 110 trillion won (roughly $65 billion to $79.5 billion) in 2026. The decision represents the largest annual capital return package in South Korean corporate history, roughly five times the size of Samsung's previous annual record set in 2020. Editorial credit: MeSamong / Shutterstock The announcement follows a 40 trillion won ($29 billion) stock buyback and canc

Data and artificial intelligence software powerhouse Databricks has officially closed a massive $5 billion strategic funding round, raising its valuation to $190 billion. The deal, coming just six months after the company was valued at $134 billion in early 2026, underscores surging investor appetite for cloud infrastructure platforms powering enterprise AI agents. Editorial credit: Robert Way / Shutterstock The mega-round exceeded initial target disclosures of $188 billion d