The three Amazon workers claim that they've been intimidated during the Zoom meetings and were being monitored while at work.

U.S. politicians are thinking about how they can ensure that the American people can benefit from AI.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick expresses concerns in a conversation with ASML executives that China has an EUV lithography system as ASML denies shipping such scanners to the PRC.

Imec, ASML, and TSMC have integrated both n-type and p-type transistors with atomically thin 2D channels on a single 300mm wafer.

Intel has appointed Seok-Hee Lee, the former chief executive of memory maker SK hynix and battery maker SK On, as executive vice president of Intel Foundry.

Elon Musk estimated that Chinese AI firms would have an LLM with Mythos level capability by the first quarter of 2027. However, the CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai responded to the comment, saying that their company will achieve this soon, but did not give a concrete timeline.

Wired has identified SK Telecom as the South Korean telecom company whose access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos model the White House ordered revoked over alleged ties to China.

The FERC says that it will order grid operators to fast-track AI data center connections that generate their own power or reduce demand during peak hours. It demands that these changes must be enacted within 90 days.

As new data center buildouts hit planning walls and AI inference providers hike costs, is the future of AI to roll your own models?

The U.S. fined Bosch $36 million for selling export-controlled product to Huawei, including software and MEMS sensors. The German company agreed to pay the penalty, as well as disgorging part of the profits it made from the 'illicit' sales.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to “design and build” chips in the United States.

An enterprising young man aims to catch up with the collective wealth of Elon Musk, and his first money spinner is a portable NFT minting gadget.

Attackers have spent the past several months smuggling malware into Steam through animated desktop wallpapers.

Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass — just a booking number and last name nets you all passengers' personal info including address, passport, TSA PreCheck, and most credit card info

This roadmap provides an in-depth analysis of Intel's current plans for its chip production capacity.

Following the Trump administration's block on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, world leaders have raised concerns that without direct access to frontier models, they may need to develop their own national alternatives.

DeepSeek and CXMT, which have both been tagged as supporting Chinese military and intelligence operations, are set to be added to the U.S.'s Entity List. However, the White House hasn't included them yet in order to avoid escalating trade tensions with Beijing.

Oregon State University researchers have developed a brain-inspired phototransistor that combines light sensing, memory, and signal processing in one device. The hardware can electronically control how long optical memories persist or fade, potentially improving energy efficiency in future AI vision systems.

Nvidia showcases agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks - like PC building - in the real world.

The US government is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit from the NAACP, arguing that the Colossus 2 data center is crucial for national security. The data center runs the Grok Gov AI model, and the government claims a shutdown "directly threatens ongoing national security interests."

Intel's enhanced 18A-P has entered risk production, laying the groundwork to ramp the node into full production in the coming months.

SemiAnalysis has published the first teardown from its new in-house lab, focusing on the minimum local metal pitch on SMIC’s third-gen 7nm at 32.5nm.

Qualcomm is in talks to buy RISC-V-based AI accelerator and CPU developer Tenstorrent for $8 billion - $10 billion.

TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company's Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging.

Oracle's Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center's water usage is "negligible."

Two jurisdictions in Tennessee just passed a data center moratorium as three more a set to vote on bills that delay these projects. These temporary bans have gained widespread support, especially in rural regions where developers are increasingly looking to for building their massive projects.

Marvell shares its vision for optically connected data centers, connecting devices across hundreds of kilometers, and the company already has hardware to build them.

China's Supreme People's Court on Friday upheld an injunction prohibiting Infineon from selling disputed GaN products in mainland China.

The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say they’ve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise.

A software architect determined that they could practically install anything they want on the infotainment system of their 2021 Honda Civic through the front USB port. While the head unit required a signed AOSP file to update itself, the AOSP test key is publicly known, meaning anyone with the knowledge could potentially build their own update file and load it with malware.

The Computer History Museum recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves. This ‘astonishing’ haul was rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.

In the context of the recent tech export bans, we look back at the Apple PowerMac G4 export ban from 1999 and Steve Jobs making marketing gold from the situation.

State attorneys general have opened a broad investigation into OpenAI, subpoenaing documents on ads, user retention, data handling, minors, health data, model behavior, and safety policies.

David Sacks said the US government warned Anthropic that Claude Fable 5 had been jailbroken and that CEO Dario Amodei refused to fix the flaw.

A preprint claims Pearl’s AI mining network consumes 320,000 GPU-equivalents and 112 MW while producing no verified useful AI computation.

A research firm says the number of blocked data centers in the first quarter of 2026 already matches the number of projects stopped in 2025. The opposition also comes from both sides of the aisle, despite President Trump's push for more AI development inside the U.S.

Companies look for cheaper alternatives as token costs for frontier AI models skyrocket, potentially impacting OpenAI and Anthropic's bottom lines. Subscriptions also take a bite out of these startup's profitability, as utilization rates higher than 5.7% could lead to losses.

Anthropic disabled its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, for every customer worldwide on Friday.

A watershed moment occurred on the battlefields of Ukraine in 2024 when 10 fully autonomous AI-controlled quadcopter drones were sent to the front lines against Russia with ‘Terminator Mode’ engaged.

Nightmare-Eclipse's vendetta against Microsoft and Windows continues apace — researcher publishes RoguePlanet and GreatXML local privilege escalation zero-day exploits

Four Republican members of Congress have urged the U.S. ITC to block imports of foreign-made chips found to infringe U.S. patents

Hades malware campaign now tricks AI bots into not scanning development packages, as prompts for bio- and nuclear weapons trigger failsafe mechanisms.

AMD took over four months to fix a critical security bug in its autoupdater, and the security researcher didn't see a dime for his efforts

OpenAI says it has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes are operating from China, and that used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates.

Meta has finished separating its operations from Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup it acquired for roughly $2 billion in December.

Direct cooling data center GPUs uses only a fraction of the water required to keep them running, and with plans for future GPUs and rack systems to be even more power hungry, this problem could make data centers even more of a resource hog.

An ongoing fight over a proposed data center sited just 50 yards from Nashville Zoo has escalated further, with the zoo’s land use attorney filing a zoning appeal to overturn permits already approved.

Google has placed an order for Intel to build more than 3 million of its TPUs in 2028 after months of testing Intel's advanced packaging.

Besides Samsung Heavy, Japan’s MOL is also building a 73 MW floating data center with Karpowership for a 2027 deployment.

TSMC is executing the largest manufacturing expansion in semiconductor industry history that combines simultaneous multi-fab N2 ramps, AI-driven manufacturing optimizations, and massive CoWoS/SoIC packaging capacity expansion to meet increasing demand for AI accelerators.

China is drafting a plan to spend roughly 2 trillion yuan over five years on a nationwide grid of AI data centers.

After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is "safe for general use."

The company that just a few weeks ago told us that its Mythos model was much too powerful to be released is now saying that we might need to hit the pause button.

Taiwan is considering far stricter export controls that would restrict AI chip sales to every customer in China.

Elon Musk laid out the first detailed design of SpaceX's AI1 satellite in a 30-minute video posted to the company's X account.

SpaceX's new Gigasat factory will mass-produce AI satellites for orbital data centers. Musk says the company is targeting 1 GW of space AI compute by 2027 and 100 GW per year by 2030.

A Finnish startup’s startling claims to have a production-ready ‘miracle’ solid-state battery have thoroughly collapsed under independent scrutiny.

Chinese startup Prinano claims it produced 8-inch photonic chip wafers without DUV lithography, using nanoimprint technology that cuts costs by 90%.

About two-thirds of the 809 data centers planned across the U.S. are slated for land that has been in drought over the past year.

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

ASML has confirmed that a group of disgruntled workers is pushing back hard against an invitation for Elon Musk to address the equipment maker’s closed annual tech conference.

A growing number of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs, but economic data paints a more complex picture as companies cut junior roles before proving AI delivers meaningful productivity gains.

ASML closed Wednesday, June 3rd, as the most valuable company in European history, reaching a market cap of $668 billion.

Google's $920-million-a-month deal with SpaceX will let it secure 110,000 Nvidia GPUs starting October 2026. This is the second data center deal that SpaceX has secured in a matter of weeks, especially as it's quickly approaching its IPO on June 12, 2026.

Object 4, one of 16 satellites in the first operational batch of Russia's Rassvet broadband network, re-entered Earth's atmosphere on approximately June 6th.

Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative's Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from up to 16 yards away.

A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model.

Finnish companies and academic institutions, alongside the Finnish Navy and Border Guards, worked together to develop a system that used existing undersea cables to detect potential disturbances on the seabed. This system would allow the authorities to respond to any detected anomaly, potentially preventing critical undersea infrastructure from getting damaged.

US National Security Agency reportedly using Mythos for conducting cyber-attacks — report reveals Anthropic engineers inside the NSA

Two Seattle city council committees have passed a one-year moratorium and a resolution on data centers. The measures are still up for a vote in the full council, but many consider that simply as a formality.

A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations has urged the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage, warning that soaring DRAM prices and constrained supply could raise costs for consumer electronics, automobiles, medical devices, and broadband infrastructure while disrupting supply chains through at least 2027.

Anthropic has published a report warning that the development path it’s on could eventually leave humans unable to control AI systems.

In the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.

"There's a new computing pattern," the Nvidia CEO told reporters at a press gaggle the day after his GTC Taipei keynote.

Meta is reportedly building more tents that house expensive data centers across the U.S., as it reportedly cuts construction time from two to three years to just a few months. It's also bringing its own power instead of relying on electricity from the grid.

Ssh, don't tell the customer anything.

Shelbyville mayor Scott Ferguson (R) made these remarks likelly without knowing that he was being recorded, and it has ignited a political firestorm in the small town.

TSMC says it does not have enough capacity to handle all the demand from AI hyperscalers, with CEO C.C. Wei saying that it will take a long time before it can match customer demand. This is an opportunity for Intel, though, as companies desperate to get their hands on advanced chips might be willing to use Intel 18A or 14A nodes for their needs instead.

SpaceX has secured a 35-year, 100% property tax abatement for its proposed $55 billion TeraFAB semiconductor facility in Texas. Elon Musk argues the exemption is essential to compete with global chipmakers, while residents raise concerns over transparency, infrastructure, and environmental impacts.

U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than any other sector and the industry's heaviest month of reductions in nearly two years.

From affordable premium laptops to next-gen handhelds, and Nvidia bringing its Spark to Windows on Arm, these are the 11 best products introduced at this year’s show.

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

AMD’s Helios set to compete against Nvidia’s NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are deployed.

OpenAI's clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they're asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don't blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.

Microsoft CEO claims the company's new AI data centers use only as much water as a single restaurant annually, thanks to a closed-loop cooling system designed to dramatically reduce consumption.

Our team in Taipei feels the heat in another extremely busy day covering Computex 2026, which is busier than ever before.

Samsung displayed its first physical mockup of HBM5 memory at Computex 2026 in Taipei, pairing the eighth-generation AI memory with a new in-package cooling structure.

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara, an Android-based chip-to-cloud platform for AI-first enterprise devices. The system combines Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware, Azure-hosted agents, and adaptive interfaces, with reference designs including a wearable AI badge and a desktop AI hub.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the federal government early access to their most capable models.

South Korean media has noted a surge in spending on luxury goods following big bonus payouts to semiconductor workers.

As Computex 2026 fully kicks off, our team finally enters the halls of the Nanggang Exhibition Center in Taipei in the latest in our series of daily blogs.

Github Copilot customers suffer from sticker shock syndrome as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing — customers reporting ten- to hundred-fold price hikes