At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, discussions centered on European AI sovereignty, highlighted by Emad Mostaque's assertion that controlling AI equates to controlling countries. While there…
Tim Cook's recent departure from his CEO role at Apple marks a significant transition, with John Ternus stepping in. Cook's tenure, focused on operational…
Chang Deng-Lung and eight others were indicted for smuggling Nvidia AI servers into China via Indonesia and Japan, exploiting legal gaps in Taiwan's export…
SK Hynix has initiated construction on a $4 billion factory in Indiana, intended for advanced memory chip packaging and AI semiconductor research. However, actual…
Alibaba's share placement raised $10.2 billion, the largest primary follow-on in Hong Kong history. Against RMB67.7 billion of June-quarter capex, it buys about one…
Z.ai confirmed it built Ox Alpha, now rebranded GLM-5.3-Flash, and claims the model runs entirely on 100,000 domestically made chips. The company won't say…
The MATCH Act would strip ASML of its remaining DUV sales to China and bar it from servicing machines already installed there. It's riding…
Xiaomi launched three chips at once: the Xring O3 with a ten-core all-big-core CPU and no efficiency cores, an O100 AI accelerator using hybrid…
The EU's Industrial Accelerator Act mandates that by January 2029, various products, including buildings and vehicles, must contain a certain percentage of Union-origin materials.…
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.…
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8 Max's weights and released Qwen3.8-27B, a laptop-optimized model claiming to match larger models' performance. This development responds to Meta's recent…
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…
Amber Enterprises will assemble Oppo, OnePlus and Realme phones in a plant Oppo already paid for, for under fifty crore rupees. The tax cases,…
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…
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