OpenAI Signs Long-Term Compute Deal With Firmus as Malaysian AI Factories Ramp Up
The pattern has repeated across the industry for two years: an American AI lab with enormous computing needs, and a data-center developer willing to build fast where power is cheap.…
Samsung Pushes Half Its 4nm Capacity to HBM4 Base Dies as Supply Ramps
Inside Samsung Electronics’ foundry operations, the allocation has quietly shifted. People familiar with the company’s plans say Samsung has committed between 50 and 60 percent of its total 4nm wafer…
GPT-6 Astra Clears All 48 Levels of a CAPTCHA Game, and the Web Wonders What Captchas Are For
The video is unremarkable to watch: a cursor moves across a screen, clicking through a grid of images, checking boxes, waiting for green confirmations. OpenAI researchers released the footage to…
Investment Banks Court Rating Agencies Ahead of Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs
The calls began months ago, before either company had filed for an offering, according to people familiar with the efforts. Investment banks advising Anthropic and OpenAI have been making the…
Samsung Leads Mistral AI’s EUR 3 Billion Round as Europe’s AI Ambitions Look East
Arthur Mensch has spent two years positioning Mistral AI as the answer to a question European policymakers keep asking: where is the continent’s own answer to OpenAI? On Tuesday the…
Arm’s Second Mobile Compute Subsystem Puts Agents and Graphics on One Pipeline
Will Abbey had a number for the developers gathered in Shanghai on Tuesday: 350 billion. That, the Arm executive vice president and chief commercial officer said, is how many chips…
xAI Loses Its Challenge to Minnesota’s Ban on AI Nudify Apps
The state law stays in force, and the company that challenged it is left to consider an appeal. A federal judge has upheld Minnesota’s ban on applications that use artificial…
Authors Fight Their Own Publishers Over the Anthropic Settlement
The settlement was supposed to end one fight and start another, and the second one has now begun. Anthropic agreed to pay roughly $1.5 billion to resolve a copyright lawsuit…
The Memory Shortage Spreads From AI Chips to Ordinary DRAM
The inventory numbers have become the talk of the memory industry. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the two Korean companies that make most of the world’s computer memory, are now…
Taiwan Enlists Its Chip Industry Behind Light-Based Interconnects
The announcement had the flavor of an industrial mobilization. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said Sept. 6 that it was establishing a Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance, bringing together TSMC, ASE,…
