Silicon Futures for July 2026 - AMD Advancing AI, Open model debate, OpenAI's rogue agent crisis
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Send us Fan Mail Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. This month, the world of AI and semiconductors has gone truly mad. Drama and volatility are the only ways to describe what we witnessed in July with AI agent swarms going rogue, a frantic effort to save open-weight models from being banned by the U.S. government, and AMD coming to market with their first rack-scale AI supercomputing system to take on NVIDI...
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