After a directive by the Commerce Department last month to disable access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model for foreign nationals earlier this month, Anthropic has confirmed that it will start restoring access today. The firm saw increased tensions with the US government after the Pentagon designated the firm as a supply chain risk and the Commerce Department prevented it from providing access to its Mythos-class models to foreign nationals. Anthropic Says Mythos & Fable Restrictions Have Been Lifted Anthropic's Mythos AI created quite a bit of stir after it was released to a working group. In an update […]

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Tesla's Terafab project, through which Elon Musk aims to support his space AI and robotic chip needs, has managed to bring an Intel veteran on board. Intel is Tesla's partner for the Terafab project and has partnered with the firm through its 14A chip manufacturing technology. The project should cost around $20 billion, according to Musk, and production is slated to occur in California and Texas. Intel Veteran Gary Jiang To Act As Terafab's Director According To His LinkedIn Profile According to the details, Tesla's first major hire for the Terafab project is Gary Jiang. Jiang revealed the move on […]

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Computer hardware firm Super Micro Computer's offices were raided by authorities in Taiwan as part of an investigation regarding GPU smuggling, says a report from Bloomberg. The publication quotes a statement by Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors' Office, which notes the locations of several offices that were raided as part of an investigation into the smuggling of NVIDIA's chips into China. A Super Micro office was also present in the list, but the statement did not directly address the firm. Taiwanese Authorities Raid Super Micro's Office As Part Of GPU Smuggling Investigation According to Bloomberg's report, corroborated by the Financial Times […]

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Korea's Korea Investment & Securities (KIS) believes that China's CXMT will be unable to make a definitive impact on the global memory market. The memory shortage, spurred by high demand from AI chips, is once again in the spotlight after consumer electronics giant Apple raised prices for several of its products and cited a memory shortage. Following the price hike, reports have claimed that Apple is requesting the US government to allow it to buy memory chips from China's CXMT. Chinese Government Could Stop CXMT From Shipping Memory Chips To Foreign Companies, Say Analysts China's CXMT has been in the […]

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Billionaire Elon Musk believes IBM's branding for its latest chip manufacturing technology announcement is misleading. IBM announced its 0.7-nanometer manufacturing technology yesterday and claimed it to be the most advanced in the world. But Musk believes that the nomenclature does not describe the feature size of the transistors manufactured with the technology. The billionaire, who is spearheading his Terafab project, which aims to produce up to a terawatt of computing capacity in a year, believes that the number of atoms should dictate nomenclature instead. Elon Musk Believes Atoms Should Decide Chip Manufacturing Technology Names As part of its announcement, IBM […]

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