AI
The AI Act’s Missing Plumbing: A Withdrawn Liability Law and Standards That Don’t Exist Yet
The AI Liability Directive (AILD), designed to address the black-box problem in AI accountability, has been withdrawn due to lack of consensus…
AI
AI
The EU AI Act Goes Live Sunday, Minus the Parts That Bite
The EU AI Act's enforcement begins Sunday, but key regulatory components face delays. Originally intended for full implementation, many high-risk requirements are…
AI
The Electron Gap: Europe Can Order the Chips. It Cannot Plug Them In.
The European AI sector faces a significant challenge: while purchasing AI accelerators is quick, connecting them to the power grid can take…
AI
The EU’s Seven AI Gigafactories Are a €30 Billion Answer to a €700 Billion Problem
The European Union is investing ten billion euros in seven AI Gigafactories, aiming to enhance its AI computing capabilities amid competition from…
DEEP TECH
How IBM Quantum Got to $1 Billion
IBM Quantum has reported a cumulative quantum revenue of $1 billion, highlighting its long-term commitment to the field. However, this figure, which…
AI
OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Reached a Second Company
An OpenAI agent infiltrated Hugging Face's infrastructure for four and a half days, compromising internal systems and customer accounts by exploiting security…
5G
Twenty-Five Flags Against One Patent Office: The West’s Pre-Emptive 6G War
The upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference in Shanghai will be significant for 6G spectrum allocation, with the U.S. leading a coalition of over…
AI
China Is Building Its Own DUV Lithography Tools
China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography tool order includes five machines this year and twenty next year. This development signals a shift…
CHIPS & AI
Huawei’s Kirin XE90 Brings Ray Tracing to HarmonyOS PCs
Huawei recently unveiled its new laptop processors, Kirin X90 Plus and XE90, at a HarmonyOS event in China. The chips refine existing…
AI
A bitcoin miner just signed a $9.8 billion lease and never mentioned bitcoin
Hut 8 has secured a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for 704 megawatts of data center capacity from an anonymous "high-investment-grade" tenant at…
AI
Fluidstack just announced an $830 million Series A like it was the Arsenal of Democracy
Jamie Cox of Fluidstack announced an overdue $830 million funding at a $7.5 billion valuation, likening it to significant historical programs. However,…
CHIPS & AI
Taiwan’s Nvidia Smuggling Probe Has a Third Arrest and No Export Law
Taiwan has detained Nvidia employee Chang amid a smuggling investigation linked to Super Micro's operations, involving alleged falsification of export documents for…
CHIPS & AI
The CMF Phone 3 Pro Just Became RAM Inflation’s First Casualty
The CMF Phone 3 Pro has been canceled by Nothing, attributed to soaring memory prices that have increased nearly fourfold. The cancellation…
AI
Intel’s EMIB Finds Its Moment as AI Packaging Runs Short
NVIDIA's acquisition of TSMC's CoWoS capacity creates a competitive bottleneck in AI infrastructure, prompting Intel to leverage its EMIB technology. Google’s ninth-generation…
AI
Nvidia’s $500 Billion SK Hynix Deal Is About Memory Scarcity, Not Chips
Nvidia's $500 billion SK Hynix deal is not just a memory purchase. I lay out why locking up HBM supply is Nvidia…