After spat with Chinese gov’t, Meta cuts AI Manus off from its internal systems and is ‘sunsetting’ platform, report claims — Beijing-ordered breakup of $2 billion AI deal begins

Meta has finished separating its operations from Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup it acquired for roughly $2 billion in December.

AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030 — rising energy consumption primarily to blame as data center power demands rise

Direct cooling data center GPUs uses only a fraction of the water required to keep them running, and with plans for future GPUs and rack systems to be even more power hungry, this problem could make data centers even more …

Brad Paisley joins fight as zoo’s dispute with AI data center escalates, petition tops 330,000 signatures — Nashville weighs sweeping hyperscale ban

An ongoing fight over a proposed data center sited just 50 yards from Nashville Zoo has escalated further, with the zoo’s land use attorney filing a zoning appeal to overturn permits already approved.

Google reportedly books Intel for packaging more than 3 million TPUs in 2028 — SK hynix is testing Intel’s EMIB packaging for HBM integration

Google has placed an order for Intel to build more than 3 million of its TPUs in 2028 after months of testing Intel’s advanced packaging.

Analyzing TSMC’s fab expansion roadmap — multi-fab N2 ramp, CoWoS, SoIC, and uncorking bottlenecks

TSMC is executing the largest manufacturing expansion in semiconductor industry history that combines simultaneous multi-fab N2 ramps, AI-driven manufacturing optimizations, and massive CoWoS/SoIC packaging capacity expans…

Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic’s new frontier model is ‘state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks’

After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is “safe for general use.”

Anthropic’s warning over AI self-improvement has a hidden message — accelerating development requires more compute before companies ever risk losing control of frontier AI models

The company that just a few weeks ago told us that its Mythos model was much too powerful to be released is now saying that we might need to hit the pause button.

Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

Taiwan is considering far stricter export controls that would restrict AI chip sales to every customer in China.