New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April

A new cryptocurrency called Pearl has set off a short-lived GPU mining rush.

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A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco — Airbnb hosts allege ‘guests’ secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed

Picture this: you’re the owner of a dainty place in San Francisco. You put it up on Airbnb, considering the area is sprawling with AI bros, thinking you’d get a pretty good return on your investment. What you actually get …

Nikon weaponizes lower prices to break ASML’s lithography monopoly — tech giant leverages in-house manufacturing to slash prices to lure back American chipmakers

Nikon will try to claw back lithography customers by selling argon fluoride (ArF) tools for less than the market leader, ASML.
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Kevin O’Leary claims Chinese propaganda is to blame for anti-datacenter backlash, ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ being spent to kill US dominance in AI — industry proponents and Trump administration reinforce claims of foreign interference

Kevin O’Leary claims Chinese propaganda to blame for anti-datacenter sentiment.

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Huawei 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

Huawei’s current Rotating Chairman thanked the United States for its export bans, which boosted the progress of China’s semiconductor industry. He made the comment after unveiling the groundbreaking LogicFolding chip archi…

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China’s dependence on US chipmakers

TikTok owner Bytedance reportedly developing its own custom CPUs in a bid to reduce costs and dependence from US chipmakers
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Amazon unveils ‘Resilient Network Graphs’ data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS workloads

AWS has revealed RNG, a new random-graph-based data center network that delivers 33% higher throughput, cuts network power consumption by 40%, uses 69% fewer devices, and is already the default architecture for most AWS wo…

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Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm’s hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion legal battle

DJI has published the results of an independent security assessment by U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend.

Startup unveils underwater drone designed for protecting undersea cables — small drone dives to 1,640 feet, comes with four-hour battery endurance or unlimited range when tethered to surface power source

A British-New Zealand startup revealed an AI-powered undersea drone designed to for patrolling undersea infrastructure. It’s powered by an autonomous software stack that allows a single operator to coordinate multiple dron…

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

A new report cites an AI consultant claiming a client accidentally spent $500,000,000 on Claude in a single month.

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