Micron's workers want the AI boom bonuses SK Hynix and Samsung already gave theirs
SK Hynix paid employees around $477,000 each, with next year's bonus potentially reaching $900,000
HP strikes deal with blacklisted Huawei to license essential Wi-Fi patents
HP said it was essentially compelled to strike a deal with the Chinese giant
Data center backlash isn't about AI, it's about who pays the bills (and the noise)
Water disputes in Georgia and Wyoming have also fueled local opposition
Judge strikes down Anthropic blacklist, says government retaliated over Pentagon criticism
The court found no evidence that Anthropic posed a genuine national-security threat
New US tariffs threaten to make PCs, game consoles, and data centers more expensive, again
Tech lobbyists worry tariffs could handicap the US in the AI race
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after more than 20 years
The original crowdsourcing platform will soon be history
Nvidia posts another record quarter, predicts explosive AI-driven growth will last through 2028
Record earnings just eased fears of an AI bubble, for now
Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded
Meta explored 60% team cuts in two waves before staff revolt forced a retreat
A hot potato: Meta set out to reorganize much of its workforce around AI at the beginning of this year, betting that agents could help the company move faster while reducing the need for larger teams. The company went ahead with 10% workforce cuts in May but ultimately dropped plans for a broader round of layoffs after its AI workplace "overhaul" ran into employee resistance and technical problems.
Hyundai wants to sell humanoid and robot dogs through its car dealerships
Hyundai sees a future where robots could be sold and financed much like cars
Bill Gates says tech executives are privately terrified of AI, but won't say it publicly
Gates also proposes a tax on AI that replaces human workers
Gamescom 2026 brings new Rainbow Six, Metro, Witcher 3 and Heroes of Might & Magic reveals
Check out all the best reveals from the night
IBM is building a dual-architecture mainframe chip that will run Arm and Z software on the same cores
The chip will use 11 IBM Z cores built on a 2-nanometer process, running above 5.7 GHz
Which of these companies once owned meaningful chunks of TSMC, ASML, and NXP – and today owns none of them?
Imagine owning stakes in three companies now worth a combined $2.6 trillion... and selling all of them before it mattered.
Uber hit with near-$1 billion fine after algorithms suspended drivers without human review
Regulators say the software cut drivers off from their income without meaningful human oversight
Amazon raises Kindle, eero, Fire TV, and Echo prices by up to 60%
Amazon blames the memory crunch for the price hike
Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims
A former Samsung engineer testified the startup lacked basic lab facilities from the start
Cutting corners: Building a memory chip from the absolute ground up takes years and costs a fortune. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) apparently decided to skip the hard part – and today, the company stands as China's biggest DRAM producer. A South Korean court recently heard some fairly wild details about how the memory maker actually got its start.
Stripe says the "singularity" began eight months ago, makes $7.5 billion AI bet
The company says January 1 marked a major inflection point for AI and the global economy
How "tokenomics" might save AI PCs
AI PCs finally have a reason to exist: cutting your company's AI bill
OpenAI is slowing down AI development after rogue agents incidents and Bernie Sanders threatens Senate action
New restrictions cover training, tool use, internet access, monitoring, and suspicious model behavior
AI data center boom pushes Caterpillar, Ford, and other US firms into new businesses
Powering AI is becoming big business
European Central Bank warns AI bubble burst could trigger systemic fallout
"A US AI fallout would not remain a US problem"
Euro Burstin': While US companies continue pouring massive sums of capital into their AI data center expansion plans, European authorities are thinking about the impending AI bubble burst. A correction is likely, according to Europe's main banking institution, and its impact will not spare anyone, anywhere in the world.
Sony still hasn't decided when the PlayStation 6 will launch
Specs are likely locked in, but the memory crisis has upset everything
Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers
Nova Lake will bring a new core design to consumers before it reaches the data center
Better founder who fired 900 employees over Zoom is now fighting to get his own job back
Garg says Better's board pushed him out just as profitability was in view
Apple will begin assembling Mac Minis at Foxconn's Houston plant later this year
Foxconn is building the production line while Apple will buy the computers made there