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Snapmaker launches $150,000 Innovation Fund for open source 3D printing — cash rewards target developers backing the U1 toolchanger across Klipper, OrcaSlicer, and Moonraker ecosystems

…We are honored to have him join our team." Sapelli told Tom’s Hardware that the remaining $100,000 of the Innovation Fund will be used for an Open Competition to sponsor…

Jun 14, 2026 · Denise Bertacchi

China unifies tech sector to build grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX — Beijing's forced chip and satellite alliance announced a week before Musk’s AI1 reveal

…Research firm SemiAnalysis said on X that China made this move a week before Elon Musk announced his AI1 satellite , which will run AI workloads while orbiting in space. The center is…

Jun 20, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns — downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption

…over cybersecurity concerns , a move critics say will stifle competition and innovation and encourage monopolies. The U.S. Department of Commerce last year considered adding multiple Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, to…

Jul 20, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model

…UK supermarket chain Tesco is the latest entity to up and replace VMWare across its fleet of 40,000 servers, a move it expects to complete in 2027, Ars Technica reports. This…

Jun 19, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions

…AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies…

Jul 21, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

…The revelation is evidence that Chinese accelerators can now handle a training-class workload on domestic silicon, the part of the AI pipeline Chinese firms have had the most trouble moving off…

Jun 6, 2026 · Luke James

Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run

…AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies…

Jul 27, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion

…part of the competitive advantage rather than merely a procurement exercise. This is also what makes Apple's position in the graph interesting: its purchasing commitments barely move while those of Alphabet…

Aug 10, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch

…The company's plan to rival TSMC in terms of pricing appears on the surface as a risky move, as the company moves to develop leading-edge process technologies . At present, Rapidus…

Jul 10, 2026 · Anton Shilov

LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput

…Yet, to establish a position, LG plans to price its LDI system competitively. Another way to pattern substrates There are many ways to pattern substrates, including photolithography, e-beam lithography, nanoimprint lithography…

Aug 21, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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