The Leixlip campus expansion will scale up Intel Xeon 6 production on the Intel 3 node, adding to more than €30 billion Intel has invested in Ireland since 1989.
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Helsing Raises $1.8 Billion at $18 Billion Valuation in Europe’s Largest Defense-AI Round
Munich-based defense-AI startup Helsing closed a $1.8 billion Series E on July 13, reaching an $18 billion valuation with backing from JPMorganChase and Goldman Sachs in the largest European defense-startup round on record.
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DeepSeek is building its own AI inference chip to cut reliance on Nvidia
China’s fastest-growing AI startup has quietly assembled a semiconductor engineering team and begun talks with design and manufacturing partners to develop a proprietary chip optimised for inference workloads.
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OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic launch frontier models on the same day in an AI industry first
July 10 marked the first time OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic released frontier AI models simultaneously, flooding the market with GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Claude Cowork in a single 24-hour period.
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Meta’s Iris AI chip enters mass production at TSMC’s 2nm node in September
Meta begins manufacturing its custom Iris AI chip at TSMC’s 2nm node in September 2026, aiming to double AI compute capacity while reducing reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
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Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for a ground-up architectural rebuild
Google DeepMind abandoned the Gemini 2.5 Pro base architecture and pushed the 3.5 Pro launch to July 17, opting for a complete rebuild to close performance gaps in mathematical reasoning and SVG generation before competing releases from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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China’s GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost
Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2, trained on Huawei silicon by a US-blacklisted Chinese startup, has outscored OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on two leading coding benchmarks and costs roughly one-sixth as much to run.
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Europe’s top court upholds 4.1 billion euro Android antitrust fine against Google
The ECJ upheld a 4.1 billion euro fine against Alphabet on 5 July in a final ruling on Google’s anticompetitive Android app-bundling and search-default practices in Europe.
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Anthropic enters talks with Samsung on a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in early discussions with Samsung Electronics to develop a custom AI chip, following OpenAI’s June reveal of its Jalapeño inference processor with Broadcom.
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Meituan’s LongCat-2.0 is the first frontier AI model trained entirely on Chinese chips
The Chinese food-delivery giant open-sourced a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained on 50,000 domestic Huawei-class accelerators, challenging the core premise of US chip export controls.