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Fragmented ecosystems and limited supply: Why China cannot break free from Nvidia hardware for AI
By Anton Shilov published
News Analysis China's push for AI hardware self-reliance hits the roadblock despite U.S. government's restructions due to fragmented hardware and software ecosystems.

AI experts warn that China is miles ahead of the US in electricity generation
By Jowi Morales published
Experts say that China has no power supply issues, allowing it to build as many data centers as it wants without worrying about exceeding its grid's capacity.

U.S. AI boom is completely upending the electricity market
By Anton Shilov published
The rapid growth of AI data centers is driving up U.S. household power bills as utilities expand the grid to meet their massive, volatile electricity demand.

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4
By Anton Shilov published
Estimates from the University of Rhode Island's AI lab suggest OpenAI's more capable GPT 5 could consume up to 45 GWh per day. But researchers may be wrong.

DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware, met with multiple failures
By Anton Shilov published
DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.

Nvidia: 'We don't install secret tracking devices in our products'
By Jowi Morales last updated
Several anonymous sources claim that U.S. authorities sometimes implant trackers on AI servers that are bound for export to see where they end up.

ChatGPT users revolt over GPT-5 release — OpenAI battles claims that the new model's accuracy and abilities fall short
By Jon Martindale published
News Analysis OpenAI has capitulated and reinstated older models, and promised not to kill them off again in the future.

New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’
By Mark Tyson last updated
Firefox rolled out update 141 last month with AI enhanced tab groups, but an issue simmering under the hood has only now come to a head.
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