Intel appoints Alex Katouzian to lead client computing and physical AI efforts and confirms Pushkar Ranade as CTO, signaling a deeper shift toward AI-driven and edge computing systems

The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before they’re released to the public.

Asian suppliers now represent roughly 90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from about 65% a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Anthropic has reportedly held early discussions with London-based chip startup Fractile about purchasing the company's inference accelerators.

Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.

Jensen Huang says China has become a lost market for Nvidia due to U.S. sanctions, but warns that America could lose out in a broader AI competition.

Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions. The flat-packed AirKamuy 150 costs as little as $2,000 — far cheaper than many military drones.

The FCC estimates that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities.

The U.S. Navy just signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab to build software to monitor other AI mine detection systems, identify failures, and push corrections in the field.

Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases

The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with seven AI providers, allowing it to deploy multiple LLMs for its use and avoiding lock up with a single vendor.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.

SoftBank is planning to launch an AI and robotics startup in the U.S. to build data centers. The firm is gunning for a $100 billion valuation and aims to list the startup this year.

Huawei is reportedly on track to become China’s top AI chip supplier as Nvidia faces export restrictions and customs delays. Analysts forecast China’s domestic AI chip market could hit $67 billion by 2030.

ASML shipped 48 EUV lithography systems and 131 immersion DUV tools in 2025, generating €32.7 billion in total revenue and ending the year with a €38.8 billion order backlog.

According to a filing to the Shanghai bourse on Wednesday, Wingtech's stock will carry a delisting risk warning starting May 6th.

Meta spent $72.2 billion on capex in all of 2025. The midpoint of its new 2026 guidance would nearly double that figure in a single year.

Intel details improvements of 18A-P that include higher performance, lower power, reduced variability, improved yields, and more.

Zero-day exploit instantly grants administrator access on most Linux distributions since 2017

New Pentagon FY2027 budget documents reveal the Joint Laser Weapon System, a containerized 300kW+ laser weapon designed to intercept cruise missiles as part of the US military’s Golden Dome missile-defense initiative.

Major firms are finding the rising costs of AI hard to manage, as human workers are now often more affordable alternatives to AI within certain contexts. With many platforms switching to per-token billing and rising model costs, we may be reaching an inflection point where human workers are a more efficient way to spend.

Samsung and SK hynix warn that severe AI-driven memory shortages could persist through 2027 as exploding HBM demand overwhelms supply, tightens the broader DRAM market, and fuels record profits

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year's record $410 billion.

An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue.

Tennessee becomes the second state to ban crypto ATMs after its governor signs a bill into law restricting these machines starting July 1st.

The results come as Chinese chipmakers continue to absorb market share from Nvidia.

Housing construction projects in Texas are facing delays of up to two months as contractors are having a harder time finding and keeping electricians. Data center projects are pricing out housing projects from the labor force as they offer 75% higher salaries and more benefits.

Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.

OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.

Google joins OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI in granting the Pentagon broad classified AI access.

TSMC adds support for face-to-face stacking, 6.5 µm and 4.5 µm pitches for the next generation of SoIC 3D stacking.

Applied Materials, KLA, and Lam Research received letters from the U.S. Department of Commerce preventing them from shipping some of Hua Hong's orders for the latest chipmaking tools. These are reportedly being planned for use on the Chinese company's planned 7-nm fab in Shanghai.

As advanced LLMs do more and more for modern businesses, the outlays to cover all those tokens can cost more than worker salaries alone. But some companies don't see the added costs as a negative as they look toward a more automated future.

A ransomware's major flaw meant that files cannot be decrypted because of a programming mistake. It also has several minor issues, showing that its creator may not be as sophisticated as suggested. Still, researchers point out that these can be rectified in future versions of the malware.

Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industry’s energy demands continue to surge.

Researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a nanoscale device that generates continuous electricity from evaporating water, with heat and sunlight boosting the process.

Nvidia, Oracle, SoftBank, and CoreWeave saw their stock prices go down because of news that OpenAI has been missing its internal targets. SoftBank stock lost 9.9% of its value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and CoreWeave also dropped during pre-market trading and remain down after the market opened.

The system would pack 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets, making it the first exascale machine designed to reach that performance tier without GPU accelerators.

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a restructuring of their relationship. No longer will Microsoft pay OpenAI a revenue share, but it will continue to flow the other way. Microsoft will also retain model access and a first-refusal for its Azure server services, but OpenAI will be able to work with other CSPs.

Scientists have demonstrated a new semiconductor material that can operate at extreme temperatures, from 500°C and down to -271.1°C.

Ubiquiti Inc. has started charging customers a 'Memory Surcharge' of up to 5.8% on some of the products sold in its online store.

The site has published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts stories, reviews them, and deploys bots to solicit quotes from real people under fake bylines.

Google announced its eighth-gen TPUs at Cloud Next, shipping two distinct chip designs for the first time in the TPU program's decade-long history.

Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their long-standing exclusivity agreement, allowing OpenAI to leverage cloud providers like Amazon and Google.

War-related disruptions in the Middle East are hitting global electronics supply chains, triggering shortages in critical PCB and chipmaking materials that could drive up prices of gadgets

After the company database was wiped in just 9 seconds, the founder of PocketOS penned a social media post to warn others about the 'systemic failures' of flagship AI and digital services providers.

Utah's Military Installation Development Authority on Friday approved a development agreement for a hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County.