Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country ‘chose not to’ sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips.

Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters ’emergency management mode,’ daily losses could hit $2 billion

Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun throttling semiconductor output by cutting new wafer input and placing lithography, etching, and cleaning equipment on standby.
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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

Anthropic has leased xAI’s entire 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 supercluster from SpaceX to ease Claude’s growing compute bottlenecks, in a deal that may reveal far bigger ambitions around AI infrastructure, orbital data centers,…

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Intel announces McLaren F1 partnership, will battle AMD-powered Mercedes — deal includes chips for aerodynamic analysis, vehicle-dynamics simulation, race strategy analytics, and more

Intel has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with F1’s legendary McLaren Racing team. AMD has been Mercedes-AMG’s partner for six years.
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Leading-edge foundry roadmaps for TSMC, Intel and Samsung — outlining the path to 1.4nm nodes and beyond

All three leading foundries have now entered the 2nm era, but their paths from now on diverge sharply: TSMC bets on predictability, Intel wagers on aggressive architectural shifts, and Samsung’s primary focus is on improvi…

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70% of Americans oppose data centers near their homes, now less popular than nuclear power plants — opposition towards nearby AI infrastructure heating up as tech companies ramp up projects to acquire more compute

A new survey revealed that 7 out of 10 Americans are against data center developers building projects within the vicinity of their homes. This is a massive increase from the late 2025 survey which showed that 47% of people…

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Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting ‘stoned’ and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

An X user shared how they were able to recover the password on their old cryptocurrency wallet using Claude and some luck.
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49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 data centers, high demand plus a regulatory limbo equals a dim situation

Around 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are finding out in the worst way that they might become literally powerless come May 2027, as provider NV Energy is poised to redirect the spice flow elsewhere, according to an article on…

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Japanese chemical giant JSR expands to Taiwan for EUV photoresist production near TSMC — plant to fill missing chemical link to scale EUV materials

The plant, located in Yunlin County, is expected to come online as early as 2028 and will co-develop advanced photoresists with TSMC.
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Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

Microsoft Bitlocker-protected drives can be opened with just some files on a stick

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