QCi launches photonic AI chip as PCIe card, targeting GPU's edge dominance
Quantum Computing Inc. shipped NeuraWave, a room-temperature photonic inference accelerator in PCIe form, positioning photonics as a power-efficient alternative to GPUs at the edge.
Tesla AI5 chip tapes out, first stop is Optimus, not cars
Tesla taped out its AI5 self-driving chip on April 15, 2026, with 8x the compute of AI4, but it's deploying first to humanoid robots and data centers, not the vehicle fleet—a signal about where the real AI work actually is.