Anthropic claims that China’s Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly ‘distill’ its Claude model — violations occurred from April to June 2026

AI tech giant Alibaba, often considered as the Amazon of China, is being accused by Anthropic for using Claude to train its AI models. The American AI startup claimed that it traced over 25,000 accounts to operators that were affiliated with Alibaba and Alibaba Qwen.

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Qualcomm plans China-specific data center chips — new Dragonfly lineup will include nerfed AI accelerators that comply with export thresholds

Qualcomm has announced that it will bring all four of its Dragonfly data center product lines to China.

Qualcomm reveals HBC near-memory AI architecture, AI250 and AI350 accelerators — touts 6x higher bandwidth-per-watt compared to HBM, 200x capacity compared to on-chip SRAM
 Qualcomm reveals HBC near-memory AI architecture, AI250 and AI350 accelerators — touts 6x higher bandwidth-per-watt compared to HBM, 200x capacity compared to on-chip SRAM

Qualcomm unveils HBC near-memory AI architecture, claims it has broken the memory wall.

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Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI’s first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle
 Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI’s first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle

Broadcom and OpenAI reveal their Jalapeño custom-built inference ASIC that allegedly beats existing leading-edge in terms of performance-per-watt.

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US Secures Netherlands for Pax Silica Alliance in key win for strategic chip alliance — tension remains over MATCH Act restrictions

Inside the US Pax Silica Alliance with the Netherlands.

China tops the list of fastest supercomputers with a CPU-only behemoth, ending US champion El Capitan’s reign — 2.198 exaflops of performance without a single GPU

China’s LineShine supercomputer has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list, posting 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark.

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TSMC is reportedly hiking prices for ‘all advanced nodes,’ accounting for 74% of the company’s wafer business — Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and others will face higher wafer costs

TSMC has reportedly told customers to prepare for 5% to 10% price hikes across advanced chip nodes, extending beyond 3nm to include 7nm and some legacy processes.

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SK hynix files to raise up to $29 billion in historic Nasdaq listing — all proceeds going to advanced AI memory fabs and EUV tool orders

SK hynix filed a securities registration statement on Wednesday to raise up to 45.45 trillion won through an American depositary receipt listing on Nasdaq.

AI data center boom hits a human bottleneck — critical skilled labor shortages could slow deployment despite billions in funding
 AI data center boom hits a human bottleneck — critical skilled labor shortages could slow deployment despite billions in funding

Data center construction is facing many challenges, and among them is a shortage of skilled hands to assemble the things.

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Meta pauses mandatory AI training program that tracked employee keystrokes after internal data leak exposed sensitive staff information company-wide — employees express frustration over poor handling of data

Meta has paused an internal AI training program after employee conversations, keystrokes, transcripts, and performance-related data were reportedly exposed across the company.

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