Weekly Intel - 2026-08-09

The AI build-out showed up well beyond the models this week: in silicon specialized for inference, in leadership shakeups, in courtrooms, in the memory supply, and in security disclosures. AI Industry Moves AMD acquires Taalas to hardwire AI models into silicon AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup founded in 2023 that etches a model&rsquo;s weights directly into custom silicon…