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…
AI regulation enforcement arrived on three continents in one week: the EU AI Act's transparency layer went live, China issued its first companion-AI fines,…
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…
Apple is testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese supplier flagged by the Trump administration for military ties, amid a global memory…
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is crucial for achieving sub-nanometer flatness in semiconductor manufacturing. Hwatsing Technology integrates metrology in its new tool to enhance efficiency…
CXMT's stock surged 470% on its Shanghai debut, financing a second wafer plant in Beijing. The company is nearing LPDDR6 production, potentially challenging Samsung…
Samsung and SK Hynix have quietly tested Chinese chip manufacturing tools from AMEC in their Chinese factories for two years, amid concerns over U.S.…
Alibaba's Qwen team launched the Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model, outperforming competitors in key benchmarks. While it promises "open weights" soon, skepticism remains…
DeepSeek's V4-Flash model is significantly cheaper than competitors like Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, sparking a divide in Silicon Valley over the use of affordable…
The Casablanca court granted Africa's first standard-essential patent injunction against Transsion's Tecno and Itel, leading to a swift global settlement with Ericsson. This ruling…
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