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AMD Shows off New Higher Performing AI Chip at CES Event

Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform during an AMD keynote address at CES 2026, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 5, 2026. (Reuters)
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform during an AMD keynote address at CES 2026, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 5, 2026. (Reuters)
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AMD Shows off New Higher Performing AI Chip at CES Event

Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform during an AMD keynote address at CES 2026, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 5, 2026. (Reuters)
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform during an AMD keynote address at CES 2026, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 5, 2026. (Reuters)

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su showed off a number of the company's AI chips on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, including its advanced MI455 AI processors, which are components in the data center server racks that the company is selling to firms like ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Su also unveiled the MI440X, a version of the MI400 series chip designed for on-premise use at businesses. The so-called enterprise version is designed to fit into infrastructure that is not specifically designed for AI clusters. The ‌MI440X is a version ‌of an earlier chip that the US plans ‌to ⁠use in a supercomputer.

AMD ‌is one of Nvidia's strongest rivals but has struggled to have as much success. In October, AMD signed a deal with OpenAI that, in addition to the financial upside, was a major vote of confidence in AMD's AI chips and software. But it is unlikely to dent Nvidia's dominance, as the market leader continues to sell every AI chip it can make, analysts said.

At the Monday event, OpenAI President Greg Brockman joined Su on ⁠stage and said chip advancements were critical to OpenAI's vast computing needs.

Looking to the future needs of ‌companies like OpenAI, Su previewed the MI500 and said it ‍offered 1,000 times the performance of an ‍older version of the processor. The company said the chips would launch in ‍2027.

At the event, Su hosted Daniele Pucci, CEO of Generative Bionics, an Italian AI developer, who unveiled GENE.01, a humanoid robot.

"Our first commercial humanoid robot will be manufactured in the second half of 2026," Pucci said at the event.

Earlier on Monday, Nvidia showed off its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, which is made up of six separate chips. CEO Jensen Huang said it was in full production. It is expected to debut ⁠later this year.

In October, AMD signed the deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI that will add billions of dollars to the company’s annual revenue. The first deployment of AI chips that incorporate AMD’s MI400 series will roll out this year. Nvidia has generated tens of billions of dollars in quarterly revenue from its AI chip sales, a feat that AMD has struggled to achieve thus far.

OpenAI is a key customer of AMD and executives at the Santa Clara, California-based company expect the deal to lead to significant additional new sales.

Also on Monday, AMD launched its Ryzen AI 400 Series processors for AI PCs, alongside Ryzen AI Max+ chips for advanced local inference and gaming. Intel held a launch event ‌earlier for its Panther Lake chips that it said would be available for order on Tuesday.

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Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center to 5 Gigawatts Compute Capacity

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, US, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, US, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo
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Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center to 5 Gigawatts Compute Capacity

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, US, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, US, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo

Meta said ‌on Monday its data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana will expand to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, in a bid to support the social media company's AI ambitions.

Since breaking ground in December 2024, local Louisiana businesses have received more than $1.6 billion ‌in contracts from Meta, ‌the company said.

Here ‌are ⁠some details:

* Meta ⁠said that the data center expansion is an investment of more than $50 billion in the Richland Parish region.

* Last year, US President Donald Trump ⁠had said the company's data ‌center project ‌would cost $50 billion.

* With this ‌expansion, the company said it ‌plans to invest over $1 billion in local infrastructure improvements, including roads, water and wastewater systems.

* Meta, like its ‌Big Tech peers, has been pouring billions of dollars into ⁠AI ⁠data centers and computing power, as demand continues to outstrip supply.

* The company has pledged to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs over the next three years, as it builds out massive data centers to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive bets on AI agent technologies.

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Mulling AI Investment, Anthropic Lobbied Australia on Copyright Law

FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo, a keyboard, and a robotic hand in this illustration taken June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo, a keyboard, and a robotic hand in this illustration taken June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
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Mulling AI Investment, Anthropic Lobbied Australia on Copyright Law

FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo, a keyboard, and a robotic hand in this illustration taken June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo, a keyboard, and a robotic hand in this illustration taken June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

Anthropic's chief executive Dario Amodei has lobbied Australian officials for "copyright reform" as the artificial intelligence giant seeks to make a major investment in the country, official briefing notes released Monday show.

Amodei met Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers in April to discuss plans to enter the Australian market, including building data centers, AFP reported.

According to briefing notes released under freedom of information law, Amodei had requested the meeting to discuss barriers to AI training in Australia, "particularly copyright reform".

Australia's center-left Labor government is under pressure from musicians, screenwriters and artists to reject proposals they say seek to let AI models use copyrighted works for free.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to deliver a speech on AI and "social license" on Wednesday.

A briefing note government officials had sent to Chalmers ahead of his meeting with Amodei said: "Anthropic will raise that investment in AI model development capability and associated infrastructure, like data centers, is contingent on clarity of copyright settings."

In the United States, Anthropic has argued AI training is covered as "fair use" of material, which does not require rightsholders' consent.

The Australian officials disputed this in the briefing note, saying the matter was "not settled".

In Australia, AI companies require permission from copyright holders through a voluntary license.

Anthropic was told Australia would not introduce a text and data mining exception in its copyright law, and was in talks with a range of stakeholders over the issue.

Anthropic "purport there is a 'long tail' of smaller rights holders which impedes efforts to identify and purchase licensing rights", the officials wrote.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Australian meeting.

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Lee: South Korea's AI Tax Windfall a 'Golden Window' for Investment

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (C) speaks during the National Fiscal Strategy Meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, South Korea, 13 July 2026. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (C) speaks during the National Fiscal Strategy Meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, South Korea, 13 July 2026. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT
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Lee: South Korea's AI Tax Windfall a 'Golden Window' for Investment

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (C) speaks during the National Fiscal Strategy Meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, South Korea, 13 July 2026. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (C) speaks during the National Fiscal Strategy Meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, South Korea, 13 July 2026. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

South Korea will use a tax revenue windfall from artificial intelligence chipmakers as a strategic source of investment, President Lee Jae Myung said Monday, describing a "golden window" of opportunity.

Global demand for advanced memory chips used in AI data centers has helped South Korea's semiconductor giants post record profits this year, boosting economic growth.

The boom has also strengthened workers' demands for higher pay, with Samsung Electronics avoiding a major strike in May after reaching an agreement on bonuses.

"Driven by an unprecedented semiconductor boom fueled by the AI revolution, we expect to see additional tax revenues on a scale never experienced before," Lee said at a policy meeting with cabinet members.

According to AFP, his comments reflect plans previously outlined by his office to use the excess tax revenues, from chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in particular, to fund public infrastructure projects.

"These revenues are a valuable national resource that should be invested during the golden window when the global race for AI leadership is being decided," Lee said.

The tax windfall will be used to establish a "future response fund" to concentrate investment in "future industries, youth, regional development, and education", he added, without giving further details.

Through such mechanisms, the government wants to ensure the benefits of the fast-evolving AI industry are shared by all, he said.

Budget Minister Park Hong-keun told the meeting that South Korea was expected to reap tax revenue of at least 500 trillion won (US$330 billion) next year, above an earlier estimate of 412 trillion won.

Against that backdrop, his ministry "will draw up next year's budget at a record-high scale of 800 trillion won", he said, an increase of more than 10 percent from this year's budget.