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How a cavalcade of blunders gave unauthorized users access to Claude Mythos
By Jon Martindale published
Premium It's hard for AI tools to prevent social engineering and third-party hacks.

Congress moves to strip the DoC of chip-export discretion with the MATCH Act
By Luke James published
Premium A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware Act, or MATCH Act, in early April.

Chinese chipmakers made record profit in 2025, despite slipping margins
By Luke James published
Premium Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA booked a combined $19 billion in China revenue across their fiscal 2025 reporting periods.

Local political revolts threaten to derail US data center projects
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Rejected proposals, moratoriums, cancelled rezoning, rallies, and fliers are all hampering the AI build out.

YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned
By Luke James published
Premium China’s YMTC is expected to start operations at its Phase 3 Wuhan fab late this year as the first leading-edge memory plant built to comply with Beijing's unwritten 50% tooling requirement.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Lightweight models could offer much of the same, at a much lower price.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.

Inside the cat-and-mouse game between Denuvo and the piracy scene
By Bruno Ferreira published
Premium A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass.

Why TSMC grew four times faster than its foundry rivals in 2025
By Luke James published
That lopsided split isn’t a one-quarter anomaly or a function of a single product cycle, but instead reflects three massive advantages held by TSMC.

China's homegrown silicon suppliers gain traction as Nvidia struggles to get its chips into the market
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Nvidia's market share in the Chinese data center market has shrunk, with a wealth of options coming from Huawei, Cambricon and more, bringing their total share up to 41%.
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