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US pulls the 'kill-switch' on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI models, sending global allies scrambling

Researchers build brain-like memory device for AI sensors that may improve energy efficiency

Nvidia reveals AI robots that taught themselves to install GPUs into motherboards

Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims

Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometres

OpenAI hit with sweeping probe from massive coalition of 42 US state attorneys general just days after reported IPO filing

US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm 'refused' to fix before US implemented export controls

AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’

AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall

U.S. gov't asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines

Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert

Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway

Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal

Angry tiny Texas town council member proposes total ban on cellular and GPS devices in protest over AI dispute

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to qualify for performance bonuses

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU

Intel announces McLaren F1 partnership, will battle AMD-powered Mercedes

Digital entrepreneur creates humorous 'physical NFT minting device' using a Raspberry Pi in quest for 'infinite money machine'

New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding

Korean funeral services company loses $33 million in secret crypto bet against Ethereum

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after losing wallet password 11 years ago

Tennessee bans crypto ATMs that have become 'payment portal of choice for scammers'

Crypto scam takes advantage of Strait of Hormuz crisis by taking fake payments, leading to two ships being fired upon

Inventor showcases 3D printer filament dryer that mines Bitcoins and dries filament with waste heat, capable of 6 TH/s

British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report

Kaspersky finds malware hidden in Steam Wallpaper Engine that hijacks accounts to spread itself

Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass, researcher claims

FBI dismantles Chinese phishing service that coached buyers to generate scam sites using AI

2021 Honda Civic infotainment system can be jailbroken via USB

Microsoft's bug-hunting nemesis extends vendetta with more zero-day attacks

Hades malware campaign tricks AI scanners with fake nuclear weapon prompts

AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability

Gaming soundbar can be hijacked from over 16 yards away without touch or pairing

Outlook may have allowed unencrypted connections for decades, report claims

Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans

More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026

AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030

Brad Paisley joins fight as zoo's dispute with AI data center escalates, petition tops 330,000 signatures

Samsung Heavy Industries recruits Greek shipowner and Supermicro to bring 50MW floating AI data centers to market

China drafts $295 billion plan to build national AI data center grid running on 80% homemade silicon

Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload

SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers

Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones

Ukraine used 10 AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ drones to kill Russian soldiers two years ago, marking first autonomous killings of humans

Drones to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage touted in new defense pact

Startup unveils underwater drone designed for protecting undersea cables

Drone breaks world speed record with 453 mph in test run

Researcher develops 'spray-on' stealth coating for drones

Apache helicopter's 'loyal wingmen' support drones to be used for precision strikes, other duties

Ukraine’s new AI-guided laser destroys Shahed suicide drones in seconds from 3.1 miles away

Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions

US Navy signs deal with AI firm for training underwater drones to detect mines in Strait of Hormuz

Intel's fab roadmap examined — Arizona, Ohio, Ireland, and the two deadlines deciding 14A process node

Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40%

Chinese fab SMIC's 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds

TSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors

Analyzing TSMC's fab expansion roadmap — multi-fab N2 ramp, CoWoS, SoIC, and uncorking bottlenecks

Chinese startup claims photonic chip production without DUV lithography, says nanoimprint process cuts costs by 90%

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’

Samsung shows first HBM5 mockup with Heat Path Block cooling

Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts

Quantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of light

Nvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chains

Optical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latency

Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck

Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech

Photonic latch memory could enable optical processor caches that run up to 60 GHz, twenty times faster than standard caches

Industry's first TSMC COUPE-based optical connectivity solution for next-gen AI chips displayed — Alchip and Ayar Labs show future silicon photonics device

GlobalFoundries buys silicon photonics firm Advanced Micro Foundry for undisclosed amount

AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan — new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap

Google is getting ready to 'hack back' as US considers shifting from cyber defense to offense

White House reveals nebulous plans to put government data on the blockchain

UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations

El Salvador Emerges as Bitcoin’s Savior

China's Ban On Cryptocurrency Mining Expands to Additional Provinces

El Salvador Government to Mine Bitcoin with Volcanic Energy

Biden Administration Upholds Trump-Era Bans on 59 Chinese Tech Companies

Bitcoin's Value Plummets as Biden Mulls Nearly Doubled Capital Gains Tax

Report: China’s Buying Used Chip-Making Equipment to Skirt US Restrictions

Microsoft announces next-gen Majorana 2 quantum computing chip

IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding

China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer

The future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum future

Quantum computing firm dangles $22,500 Bitcoin prize

IBM and Cisco agree to lay the foundations for a quantum internet

New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads

IBM's boffins run a nifty quantum error-correction algorithm on conventional AMD FPGAs

Trump administration to follow up Intel stake with investment in quantum computing, report claims

SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us'

Google is reportedly in talks with SpaceX to launch its orbital data centers

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound

SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk's Terafab

The Pentagon announces AI deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and more

SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs

Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof

NASA successfully deflected a small asteroid with its DART rocket, kinetic strike ejected a significant amount of debris from the asteroid

Russian 'Inspector' spacecraft intercepted communications from a dozen European satellites, report claims

First ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserve

Elon Musk restarts Dojo3 'space' supercomputer project as AI5 chip design gets in 'good shape'

AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system

Nvidia to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers

China's supercomputer breakthrough uses 37 million processor cores to model complex quantum chemistry at molecular scale

Start-up hails world's first quantum computer made from standard silicon

Nvidia GPUs and Fujitsu Arm CPUs will power Japan's next $750M zetta-scale supercomputer

New 3D printing process could improve superconductors

New research shows naturally occurring mineral is an 'unconventional superconductor' when purified

New research reignites the possibility of LK-99 room-temperature superconductivity

U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material

Nature Retracts Controversial Room Temperature Superconductor Paper (But Not LK-99)

What is a Superconductor?

MIT's Superconducting Qubit Breakthrough Boosts Quantum Performance

LK-99 Research Continues, Paper Says Superconductivity Could be Possible

Is LK-99 a Superconductor After All? New Research and Updated Patent Say So