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• • PremiumIntel patent embeds MicroLEDs in chip packaging — technology may enable embedded optical interconnects through TGVsBy Jon Martindale Published
  • Big TechEarly Nvidia advisor says he's owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlementBy Shane Downing Published
  • Tech IndustryAnthropic CEO described Jensen Huang as 'kind of Trump-like' during 2022 meetingBy Andrew E. Freedman Published
  • PremiumSynopsys debuts Autopilot platform for developing chips autonomously using AIBy Shane Downing Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI's custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rolloutBy Jake Roach Published
  • PremiumOpenAI Jalapeño design interview transcriptBy Jake Roach Published
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Artificial Intelligence

• • Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI's custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rolloutBy Jake Roach Published
  • PremiumOpenAI Jalapeño design interview transcriptBy Jake Roach Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceUK Games Expo bans games and art made mostly using AIBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceUK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbotsBy Oliver Haslam Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI 'kill switch' fails to stop a rogue agentBy Etiido Uko Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper says AI decision model Jev beat Pokémon Red in under a weekBy Shane Downing Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 85-year-old 1941 Enigma-coded message in two daysBy Mark Tyson Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delayBy Shane Downing Published
  • Artificial IntelligenceJapanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destructionBy Mark Tyson Published

Big Tech

• • Big TechEarly Nvidia advisor says he's owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlementBy Shane Downing Published
  • Big TechNvidia CEO says 'we have to shut the labs down' if AI experiments are unsafeBy Jake Roach Published
  • Big TechAnthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI developmentBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Big TechLG strongly denies TV security claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'By Stephen Warwick Published
  • Big TechArm faces potential shareholder revolt over CEO's 'excessive' $800 million pay packageBy Etiido Uko Published
  • Big TechKey Nvidia and Intel supplier raided over alleged China origin fraudBy Luke James Published
  • Big TechNvidia gears up its influence in Washington, forming PACBy Anton Shilov Published
  • Big TechNvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billionBy Anton Shilov Published
  • Big TechSpaceXAI will deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's agentic workloadsBy Luke James Published

Cryptocurrency

• • CryptocurrencyNorth Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hackBy Etiido Uko Published
  • Cryptomining‘We’ll be the first to mine Bitcoin in space’ says Nvidia-backed startupBy Mark Tyson Published
  • CryptominingGoogle's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of conceptBy Mark Tyson Published
  • CryptocurrencyHacker turns 25 cents into 46 billion fake Bitcoins to steal $770,000By Bruno Ferreira Published
  • CryptocurrencyPoland lost $230 million in cryptocurrency trying to buy Venezuelan oil in 2023By Bruno Ferreira Published
  • CryptominingMexican cartel's crypto farm seized in mountain raidBy Mark Tyson Published
  • CryptocurrencyMinecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heistBy Mark Tyson Published
  • CryptocurrencyHackers drain $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, emptying roughly 95% of federation walletBy Etiido Uko Published
  • CryptocurrencyCrypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for miningBy Jowi Morales Published

Cybersecurity

• • CybersecurityTeenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accountsBy Bruno Ferreira Published
  • CybersecurityFlock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken downBy Jowi Morales Published
  • CybersecurityNovel attack slashes computing power needed to crack textbook RSA cryptographyBy Bruno Ferreira Published
  • CybersecurityAsus confirms eShop data breach exposed customer order records and contact detailsBy Bruno Ferreira Published
  • CybersecurityNorth Korea used job interviews to deploy malware on 30,000 devices during coding testsBy Jowi Morales Published
  • CybersecurityIntel suspends bug bounty program that paid up to $100,000 per flawBy Shane Downing Published
  • CybersecurityHackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebaseBy Etiido Uko Published
  • CybersecurityHackers find encryption key stored on Flock cameraBy Jowi Morales Published
  • CybersecurityResearcher reverse-engineers infamous Stuxnet malware source code, publishes it on Github for allBy Bruno Ferreira Published

Data Centers

• • Data CentersData center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approvedBy Mark Tyson Published
  • Data CentersRussia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalationBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Data CentersElon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operationBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Data CentersNew Jersey hits Microsoft-linked AI data center with record fine for 62 unpermitted power generators, issues 45-day shutdown deadlineBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Data CentersGoogle's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar powerBy Oliver Haslam Published
  • Data CentersChina's ByteDance gained access to over 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through Norway data centerBy Jowi Morales Published
  • Data CentersOpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lagBy Etiido Uko Published
  • Data CentersLocal opposition blocked $68 billion worth of data center projects in the second quarter of 2026By Etiido Uko Published
  • Data CentersHouse passes act to make AI data centers pay for grid upgrades to minimize impact on residentsBy Jowi Morales Published

Drones

• • DronesResearchers build a drone that navigates with physical whiskers to operate in dark, dusty or smoky places where cameras or GPS can failBy Jowi Morales Published
  • DronesAutonomous NATO strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targetsBy Shane Downing Published
  • DronesUK research agency backs drone-based internet service experiment with lasers, microwaves, and gravity waves used for wireless powerBy Jowi Morales Published
  • DronesWaymo robotaxi calls cops on riders handling loaded AR-style ghost gunBy Mark Tyson Published
  • DronesUkraine triumphs in 'first-ever' drone-vs-drone boat battleBy Mark Tyson Published
  • DronesIran could potentially reverse-engineer captured U.S. underwater droneBy Etiido Uko Published
  • DronesTrump slaps up to 100% tariffs on imported drones and critical componentsBy Etiido Uko Published
  • DronesJapan to mass-procure 3D-printed rocket-powered drone interceptorBy Mark Tyson Published
  • DronesUS military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern borderBy Jowi Morales Published

Manufacturing

• • PremiumSynopsys debuts Autopilot platform for developing chips autonomously using AIBy Shane Downing Published
  • SemiconductorsIntel expects 14A to be 'within 5%' the performance of TSMC's A14By Anton Shilov Published
  • SemiconductorsASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026By Anton Shilov Published
  • SemiconductorsElon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist orderBy Anton Shilov Published
  • SemiconductorsUS chip fabs face massive 157,000 worker shortfall, mere 3% of US engineering grads enter chipmakingBy Jowi Morales Published
  • SemiconductorsAnalyst firm says ASML unlikely to back particle accelerator chipmaking techBy Anton Shilov Published
  • PremiumPiecemakers bets edge AI devices will diverge from reliance on HBMBy Shane Downing Published
  • SemiconductorsJensen Huang thinks China will develop its own advanced lithography chipmaking tools by 2030By Anton Shilov Published
  • SemiconductorsSK hynix reportedly discussing US memory chip manufacturing with IntelBy Jowi Morales Published

Photonics

• • PremiumIntel patent embeds MicroLEDs in chip packaging — technology may enable embedded optical interconnects through TGVsBy Jon Martindale Published
  • PremiumTower Semiconductor to invest $4 billion in Japanese ops to set up massive optical connectivity hubBy Anton Shilov Published
  • PremiumAI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030By Etiido Uko Published
  • PremiumHow optical interconnects and silicon photonics emerged as AI's next hot commodityBy Etiido Uko Published
  • PremiumQuantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of lightBy Francisco Pires Published
  • PremiumNvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chainsBy Jon Martindale Published
  • PhotonicsOptical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latencyBy Jowi Morales Published
  • PremiumPhotonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneckBy Chris Stokel-Walker Published
  • PhotonicsBill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current techBy Jowi Morales Published

Policy

• • PolicyChinese state media counters Anthropic's call to put brakes on AI developmentBy Jowi Morales Published
  • PolicyTaiwan cracks down on tech businesses with illegal Chinese ownershipBy Jowi Morales Published
  • PolicyNew US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI serversBy Jake Roach Published
  • PolicyX busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricityBy Jowi Morales Published
  • PolicyTrump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claimsBy Luke James Published
  • PremiumH200s finally reach China under case-by-case import licenses, but it's already too late for NvidiaBy Luke James Published
  • PolicyWhite House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology listBy Luke James Published
  • PolicyNashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domainBy Jowi Morales Published
  • PolicyPresident Trump expands AI data center ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to include state governors and utility companiesBy Jowi Morales Published

Quantum Computing

• • Quantum ComputingNEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claimsBy Anton Shilov Published
  • Quantum ComputingQuantum computing used in 'first commercial game development'By Mark Tyson Published
  • PremiumNeural atom quantum computing roadmap — how laser-cooled trapped atoms could pave the path beyond physical qubit countsBy Francisco Pires Published
  • Quantum ComputingMicrosoft announces next-gen Majorana 2 quantum computing chipBy Andrew E. Freedman Published
  • PremiumIBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private fundingBy Luke James Published
  • Quantum ComputingChina's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computerBy Luke James Published
  • PremiumThe future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum futureBy Francisco Pires Published
  • Quantum ComputingQuantum computing firm dangles $22,500 Bitcoin prizeBy Mark Tyson Published
  • PremiumIBM and Cisco agree to lay the foundations for a quantum internetBy Luke James Published

Space

• • SpaceChina launches 'Supercomputing-1' AI satellite as orbital data centers gather momentumBy Etiido Uko Published
  • SpaceRussian Starlink rival flounders after entire batch of satellites fails to reach operational altitudeBy Mark Tyson Published
  • SpaceEurope expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves past the planning and negotiation stage into implementationBy Etiido Uko Published
  • SpaceIntel's proposed two-tier satellite network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbitBy Etiido Uko Published
  • SpaceNASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same chargerBy Mark Tyson Published
  • SpaceErrant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of soundBy Jowi Morales Published
  • SpaceSpace Force gets first mobile high-powered electromagnetic beam weapon to cripple enemy satellitesBy Mark Tyson Published
  • SpaceSpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphereBy Etiido Uko Published
  • SpaceSpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us'By Anton Shilov Published

Supercomputers

• • SupercomputersSanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the leadBy Anton Shilov Published
  • PremiumThe supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI eraBy Chris Stokel-Walker Published
  • PremiumChina tops the list of fastest supercomputers with a CPU-only behemoth, ending US champion El Capitan's reignBy Luke James Published
  • SupercomputersChina's LineShine supercomputer dethrones El Capitan in Top 500 listBy Anton Shilov Published
  • SupercomputersFirst ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserveBy Mark Tyson Published
  • SupercomputersElon Musk restarts Dojo3 'space' supercomputer project as AI5 chip design gets in 'good shape'By Aaron Klotz Published
  • SupercomputersAMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale systemBy Anton Shilov Published
  • SupercomputersNvidia to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUsBy Anton Shilov Published
  • SupercomputersNvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National LaboratoryBy Anton Shilov Published

Superconductors

• • SuperconductorsNew 3D printing process could improve superconductorsBy Ash Hill Published
  • SuperconductorsNew research shows naturally occurring mineral is an 'unconventional superconductor' when purifiedBy Christopher Harper Published
  • SuperconductorsNew research reignites the possibility of LK-99 room-temperature superconductivityBy Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsU.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like materialBy Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsNature Retracts Controversial Room Temperature Superconductor Paper (But Not LK-99)By Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsWhat is a Superconductor?By Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsMIT's Superconducting Qubit Breakthrough Boosts Quantum PerformanceBy Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsLK-99 Research Continues, Paper Says Superconductivity Could be PossibleBy Francisco Pires Published
  • SuperconductorsIs LK-99 a Superconductor After All? New Research and Updated Patent Say SoBy Francisco Pires Published

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