NVIDIA has released new benchmark results for its Vera BlueField-4 STX storage processor, saying the company’s Vera CPU-based AI-native storage platform posted clear gains over traditional x86 CPUs across a range of storage tasks. According to NVIDIA, the tests covered encryption, compression, data integrity checks, and recovery workloads that are becoming more demanding as AI agent applications scale and storage systems handle enterprise knowledge bases, long-term memory, KV cache, tool-call data, and model outputs. In the benchmark figures disclosed by the company, AES-128 encryption throughput improved by as much as 1.43x and decryption throughput by up to 1.29x. Reed-Solomon recovery reached up to 3.26x, CRC32C data integrity checks rose by as much as 3.67x, compression throughput increased by up to 3.29x, and decompression performance improved by as much as 1.72x. NVIDIA also said overall throughput in a combined compression-and-encryption storage pipeline improved by as much as 3.21x. The company said Vera CPU uses its in-house Olympus core architecture with 88 Armv9.2-compatible CPU cores, 176 threads, Scalable Coherency Fabric, and a SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory system, with up to 3.4 TB/s of interconnect bandwidth and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

Intel has opened part of its Atom processor technology to chip startup Rosaic Labs, according to a Reuters report cited by BlockBeats on July 30. The arrangement is unusual for Intel because the company has historically rarely licensed core technology tied to its x86 architecture or Atom line to outside firms. Reuters said Intel plans to provide Rosaic with register-transfer level, or RTL, code for Atom processors, allowing the startup to build custom chip designs based on Intel intellectual property. Rosaic was founded in May this year and is led by CEO Amarjit Gill. Its core team includes several former Rivos employees. The report also said Gill and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan have a long-standing investment relationship. They previously co-invested in chip startup Nuvia and also worked together in the creation of Rivos. Public filings show Rosaic has met the conditions to launch a $10 million seed financing round.

Anthropic switched Claude Code from an npm package to precompiled native binaries in v2.1.113, eliminating Node.js startup and JIT warm-up overhead. Same install command, zero user action required.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context, adaptive thinking, Agent Teams, and autonomous discovery of 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities. Outperforms GPT-5.2 in benchmarks.

Nvidia closed at a record $208.27 with market value above $5.09 trillion. After Intel posted a strong first quarter, Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Intel rose to about $17.7 billion, implying an unrealized gain of roughly $12.7 billion.

xAI's Grok Build coding tool pushed 11 versions in under 15 days, hitting v0.2.11 with 8-agent parallelism and X search integration. It poached two top executives from Cursor parent Anysphere, but scored 70.8% on SWE-bench Verified, far behind Claude Code's 87.6%.

Meta has signed a multiyear infrastructure agreement with AWS worth billions of dollars, planning to deploy hundreds of thousands of Graviton5 CPUs across its data centers for AI inference, general computing, and some training workloads.

Odaily reported that on-chain analyst Ember monitored a wallet suspected to be linked to a16z that withdrew 471,500 native Hyperliquid tokens over the past day, valued at $30.57 million. The address, shown as 0x867...E6D, then moved the tokens to several exchanges, including OKX, Bybit and Gate. The update was presented as a short market bulletin and did not include additional context beyond the observed token movements and estimated value.