Google and Pentagon in talks to run custom AI chips inside classified environments — Google pushes for tight controls for TPUs surrounding use for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons

Google is reportedly negotiating with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy Gemini in classified settings, with the talks covering the addition of GPU racks to Google Distributed Cloud.

TSMC warns of Intel Foundry’s growing prowess during the company’s latest earnings call — ‘We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them’

By now, TSMC has become a much bigger chipmaker than Intel has ever been, but the world’s top foundry still calls its American peer a ‘formidable’ competitor.

Quantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of light

We analyze the approaches of PsiQuantum and Xanadu, who are each developing their own approaches to quantum photonic communications, with a vision that extends beyond 2029.

Chinese fabs import record volumes of US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia — homegrown tool makers booked record 2025 revenues as price competition squeezes margins

2025 was a bumper year for Chinese chipmaking equipment firms Naura, AMEC, ACM Research, and Piotech, with each posting record revenues.

Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms — fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years

The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of the U.S. nationals that have been convicted of running laptop farms that allowed North Korean workers to pose as American residents and work at American tech firms.

Intel launches Wildcat Lake as Core Series 3 for value laptops and edge systems — six consumer SKUs built on 18A promise ‘all-day’ battery life

Intel has today launched its Core Series 3 mobile processors, confirming the official branding for the silicon tracked under the Wildcat Lake codename since late 2024.

Broadcom to supply Meta with custom silicon through 2029 — Broadom CEO Hock Tan departs Meta’s board

Broadcom inks deal with Meta to supply multi-GW of custom MTIA silicon through 2029, but Hock Tan will leave Meta’s board.

Anonymous perps behind 86 million files scraped from Spotify hit with $322 million court judgement — Anna’s Archive case presents intriguing precedent for AI training

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday awarded Spotify and the three major labels $322 million in a default judgment against Anna’s Archive.

Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to counselors

Darren Blanchard, a farmer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested for going over the time limit during a town hall meeting to discuss residents’ concerns about a potential data center project in the area.

Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned

Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023.