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Meta's multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure
By Luke James published
Premium Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.

OpenAI and Microsoft's alliance fractures as cloud exclusivity deal ends
By Jon Martindale published
Premium OpenAI and Microsoft outline terms.

Inside Google's TPU V8 strategy, delivering two chips for two crucial tasks at incredible scale
By Luke James published
Premium Google announced its eighth-gen TPUs at Cloud Next, shipping two distinct chip designs for the first time in the TPU program's decade-long history.

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.
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