Industry coalition urges Trump administration to take urgent action as AI data centers’ extreme memory consumption threatens other industries — AI-driven memory chip shortage could raise prices in automotive, medical, telecommunications sectors

A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations has urged the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage, warning that soaring DRAM prices and constrained supply could raise costs for consumer electronic…

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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

Anthropic has published a report warning that the development path it’s on could eventually leave humans unable to control AI systems.
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Tom’s Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to Taipei

In the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
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Jensen Huang says ‘every edge device will become autonomous’ — Nvidia maps one computing pattern from the cloud to robotics

“There’s a new computing pattern,” the Nvidia CEO told reporters at a press gaggle the day after his GTC Taipei keynote.
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Meta 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

Meta is reportedly building more tents that house expensive data centers across the U.S., as it reportedly cuts construction time from two to three years to just a few months. It’s also bringing its own power instead of re…

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Outlook may have allowed unencrypted connections for decades, report claims — Fedora and Dovecot upgrade reveal protocol downgrade issue present since at least 2007

Ssh, don’t tell the customer anything.

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Indiana mayor secretly recorded saying AI data center protestors only live in ‘sh***y’ houses — office issues statement of clarification over controversial comments

Shelbyville mayor Scott Ferguson (R) made these remarks likelly without knowing that he was being recorded, and it has ignited a political firestorm in the small town.
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’ — tells shareholders that he will keep prices stable, refrain from implementing price hikes

TSMC says it does not have enough capacity to handle all the demand from AI hyperscalers, with CEO C.C. Wei saying that it will take a long time before it can match customer demand. This is an opportunity for Intel, thoug…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash

SpaceX has secured a 35-year, 100% property tax abatement for its proposed $55 billion TeraFAB semiconductor facility in Texas. Elon Musk argues the exemption is essential to compete with global chipmakers, while residents…

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US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs

U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than any other sector and the industry’s heaviest month of reductions in nearly two years.
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