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Anthropic warns Claude AI is building itself faster than expected, calls for option to halt frontier development — 'recursive self improvement' increases risk humans lose control of AI
4d agoMeta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power
4d ago32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
6d agoHuawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech
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Microsoft announces Majorana 2 quantum computing chip — claims a practical machine will come in 2029
Microsoft announced its next-generation quantum computing chip, Majorana 2, to an audience of developers at its Build conference in San Francisco. The new chip was designed with its Discovery agentic AI…
ASML CEO says Elon Musk is 'very serious' about TeraFab chipmaking megaproject, confirms direct talks — Musk targets $119 billion Texas semiconductor facility
…is "very serious" about building one of the largest chip manufacturing operations ever attempted. Fouquet, speaking at a tech event in Antwerp, Belgium, also warned that soaring AI demand will leave the…
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device — breakthrough could pull quantum computing onto the same manufacturing roadmap as next-gen AI processors, compressing timelines
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device — breakthrough could pull quantum computing onto the same manufacturing roadmap as next-gen AI processors, compressing timelines
Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars
…Suppliers are also being careful about how they distribute limited capacity, with one source telling Reuters they want to avoid the appearance of favoring specific customers during the AI buildout. Follow Tom…
White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion
…Vice President JD Vance told an international AI gathering in Paris last year that the future of AI wouldn’t be won through safety concerns but "by building," the New York Times…
Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO
…However, modern hyperscale AI data centers can cost tens of billions of dollars and take years to build. Utilities are increasingly struggling to supply sufficient electricity for AI projects, while land, transformers…
Trump administration considers mandatory pre-release vetting of AI models — Anthropic's Mythos cited as catalyst for policy reversal
…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…
Anthropic files for IPO — Claude maker races OpenAI and SpaceX to Wall Street
…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…