China's military obtained Nvidia chips despite US export controls, report claims
Are Washington's chip controls really stopping advanced hardware from reaching China?
Anthropic files for IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in the race to go public
The AI bubble is heading to Wall Street, starting with Anthropic
Why it matters: Anthropic's filing turns the AI race into something Wall Street can finally measure. For the last few years, frontier AI companies have been valued by private investors on growth, ambition, and the fear of missing the next platform shift. A public filing will eventually force Anthropic to disclose the numbers that matter most: revenue, losses, infrastructure costs, margins, and how much money it takes to keep Claude competitive.
A top economist says there's "zero evidence" AI is killing jobs, despite thousands of actual layoffs
Apollo's Torsten Sløk argues the AI boom is boosting employment
Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops
Nvidia wants to make your Windows PC an agentic and creator powerhouse
Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.
Wix lays off 1,000 workers as the AI jobs apocalypse keeps looking very real
Sam Altman said the AI jobs apocalypse had not arrived (yet?)
This startup has raised $12 million to make liquid-metal circuit boards rewritable
Itera's electrowetting platform redraws circuits to eliminate repeated fabrication and assembly cycles
Elizabeth Warren wants to tax AI data centers as power bills climb
The senator wants AI's biggest winners to cover the energy costs ordinary Americans are absorbing
Taiwan just busted an alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling ring using Japan as a cover
Taiwan investigators are examining whether AI servers were quietly rerouted to China through a key US ally
Smartphone shipments face worst decline ever: memory crisis and US-Iran war hit market
"For consumers, it means the era of ultra-cheap smartphones is over"
Samsung averts strike with $340,000 bonuses for semiconductor workers
A last-minute labor deal stopped a strike at the world's largest memory chipmaker
Inside the data center boom that's consuming Chile's last water
Data centers are diverting water from capital region in Chile's worst drought in 1,000 years
A hot potato: Anti-data center sentiment has intensified in the US since the AI boom began around 2022. However, the US is far from the only country in which data centers, built for AI and other technologies, negatively impact power and water supplies. In Chile, they are one of several factors driving a historic water crisis.
Sam Altman is "delighted" his AI jobs apocalypse prediction was wrong
Was it?
A hot potato: OpenAI boss Sam Altman says he is delighted that the AI-caused jobs apocalypse he predicted has not come to pass – news that's unlikely to reassure anyone who's lost their job because of AI. It appears that the CEO's taking the view that although things are pretty bad, they're really not as bad as he expected.
Nvidia Vera CPU impresses in early Nvidia-sanctioned benchmarks
Controlled tests show strong results against Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc
Micron just made the most advanced DRAM ever produced in the US, and it's not for your PC
The 1-alpha node brings advanced DDR4 production to Virginia fab
TSMC workers threaten Samsung-style strike over rumored bonus cuts despite record profits
TSMC says bonuses have not been cut and promises faster growth next year, but workers are still angry
AMD targets TSMC's A14 node for Zen 7, pushing server chips into the angstrom era
Zen 7 also brings AVX10, matrix extensions for AI workloads, and next-gen chiplet packaging
Huawei says it can build 1.4nm chips without ASML's most advanced machines
Cut off from advanced lithography tools, Huawei is betting on stacked chip architectures and new packaging methods
99% of executives expect AI to trigger layoffs within two years, survey finds
Report also finds employee "thriving" has collapsed from 66% to 44% since 2024
Was Ray Tracing a Scam?
Eight years after Nvidia promised ray tracing would revolutionize gaming, most gamers still disable it. So what happened, and did RTX buyers get sold a fantasy instead of the future?
TDK and NHK Spring accused of fixing prices on components used in 97% of hard drives for over a decade
The class-action lawsuit covers hard drive purchases made between 2003 and 2016
Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips
Relief for consumers or just another pipe dream?
Tech layoffs have already passed 100,000 in 2026 as the industry cuts jobs to fund AI
Meta, Cisco, Intuit, and PayPal lead a wave – 2026 is shaping up to be brutal
A hot potato: Tech sector job losses in early 2026 have already surged past 100,000, and the past month suggests the trend is not subsiding. While AI automation is likely not the sole cause, aggregated reports suggest it is the leading factor, with Meta's transition into an "AI-first" company headlining May's damage to the job market.
AMD's 256 core Epyc Venice enters production on TSMC's 2nm node
The Zen 6 server chip promises major gains in AI throughput, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency
Taiwan is cracking down on AI chip smuggling
Three people are facing detention in Taiwan for allegedly sneaking Nvidia-powered servers into China
Intel says 14A is on track for 2028 risk production, 10A and 7A now in development
Intel's latest products are manufactured on the 18A node