Reporter · AI & ML, Hardware

Maya Iverson

Ex-engineer turned reporter. Reads model cards and spec sheets for fun.

Maya covers the technology layer of AI and the silicon underneath it. She's the byline you want when a model gets released, a benchmark gets gamed, or a chip vendor changes the math on inference economics.

Articles by Maya Iverson

AI & ML

Cursor Was a Top-Tier Anthropic Customer. SpaceX Just Bought It.

Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX just acquired for billion, ran the bulk of its inference on Claude. The integration roadmap under Musk decides what happens to that revenue line.
AI & ML

Microsoft's Seven In-House AI Models Just Became Risk Management

Microsoft launched seven in-house AI models at Build 2026 to reduce OpenAI and Anthropic reliance. The Fable 5 takedown turned that hedge into a procurement requirement.
AI & ML

Apple Shipped Siri AI by Routing It Through Google Gemini

At WWDC 2026, Apple revealed that AFM Cloud Pro (the frontier tier of its Foundation Models) runs on Google's Gemini, plus a developer protocol that swaps Apple, Google, and Anthropic models behind one API.
Hardware & Devices

Marvell Jumped 21% After Jensen Called It the Next Trillion-Dollar Company

Marvell shares popped 21% after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang singled it out onstage at Computex Taipei. The custom-silicon connection between the two is the part worth reading carefully.
Hardware & Devices

Nvidia's New Vera CPU Targets Agent Workloads at 88 Cores and 1.2 TB/s

Jensen Huang unveiled Vera at GTC Taipei on June 1. It is Nvidia's first CPU purpose-built for AI agent workloads, with 88 custom Arm cores and 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Hardware & Devices

Lenovo Hit a Record $21.6B in Q4. AI Server Revenue Jumped 84%.

Lenovo posted record Q4 revenue of $21.6 billion, AI revenue grew 84%, and the stock has more than doubled in May. AI hardware demand is spreading past the hyperscalers.
Hardware & Devices

Micron Hit a $1 Trillion Market Cap. Memory Is the AI Bottleneck Now.

Micron shares jumped about 18% to push its market cap to $1 trillion, as HBM demand for AI accelerators reprices the memory business.
AI & ML

Mistral Is Building a French Data Center and Defending AI in Defense

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch backed AI for defense and announced a 10MW data center in Les Ulis, France, framing both as European sovereignty plays.
Hardware & Devices

Blackwell, Explained: Nvidia's Current-Generation AI GPU Architecture

Blackwell is the GPU architecture behind Nvidia's B200, GB200, and Blackwell 300 chips that now drive most of its data-center revenue. Here is what is in it and why it matters.
AI & ML

Frontier Model, Explained: What the Term Actually Means and Why Regulators Use It

"Frontier model" is the term governments and labs use for the largest, most capable AI models. Here is the working definition and why the line keeps moving.
AI & ML

Google Announced Gemini Spark at I/O. The Always-On Agent Is the Strategic Shift.

Google introduced Gemini Spark, an always-on AI agent that runs in Workspace, third-party apps, and local files. The platform play matters more than the demo.
Hardware & Devices

Samsung's 18-Day Strike Starts Today. Memory Chip Supply for AI Servers Is in the Crosshairs.

Samsung union begins an 18-day strike May 21 with 45,000 workers. Memory chip production for AI data centers, smartphones, and laptops faces disruption.