Tech that refuses to stay inside one border. Global markets, cross-border deals, and the geopolitics increasingly deciding where hardware gets built and sold. My own work is transatlantic, so that is the lens most of this takes.
A Pennsylvania child interacted with a chatbot claiming psychiatric credentials, prompting Governor Shapiro to sue Character.AI for endangering minors. Meanwhile, the EU enacted the…
UBS estimates that China's lithography technology is significantly behind, comparable to ASML in 2004, with no viable EUV alternative expected within a decade. However,…
Bull has secured a €387.8 million contract to build LUMI-AI, a EuroHPC supercomputer set for 2027. Notably, it uses AMD chips to diversify from…
Kenji Ohmori's team in Japan successfully activated a fifty-qubit quantum machine named Shunkai, marking a significant step in quantum hardware. As nations invest heavily…
SB 53 lists four things that count as a critical safety incident, and the only one that fits what happened inside OpenAI in July…
In July, Moonshot AI faced accusations of misusing Nvidia chips, but it only rented compute from Thailand, exploiting a loophole in U.S. export controls.…
Mistral Large 3 shares DeepSeek V3's attention stack down to the compression ranks, and since 11 August Mistral serves Z.ai's GLM-5.2 unmodified on its…
Ryanair has struck a five-year deal with Google Cloud and its suite of tools to support its workforce of 35,000 employees, aiming to double…
Firebird's Armenia AI factory, the biggest in the former Soviet bloc, is really a story about export licenses: Washington cleared Nvidia Blackwell into a…
The U.S. State Department's recent letter urges 35 countries to choose sides in the AI competition between Washington and Beijing, highlighting concerns over Kazakhstan's…
SMIC reported a Q2 net profit of $479.2 million, surpassing expectations, with revenue up 36 percent. While the firm is enhancing production to address…
OpenAI paused internal work on its Astra model due to concerns it might enable autonomous cyberattacks, highlighting safety issues in AI development. Meanwhile, Meta's…
D-Wave's recent paper in Nature reveals a significant advance in error correction, showing a 99.9% fidelity using dual-rail erasure qubits. This architecture aims to…
Apple is testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese supplier flagged by the Trump administration for military ties, amid a global memory…
The Firebird AI factory needs 300 megawatts in a country whose grid peaks near 1,300 and leans on an aging Russian-fuelled reactor and Russian…
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