New Commerce Department AI export rules could be seismic change for CSPs and data center operators — buying American GPUs at scale means committing to building American infrastructure

The Trump administration is considering new export controls for high-end AI chips, with the suggestion that it may start requiring investment in U.S.
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Oracle hits back at Stargate data center cancellation reports — claims 4.5GW Oracle-OpenAI agreement still on track

In a statement posted to X today, Oracle said it and developer Crusoe are “operating in lockstep” to deliver one of the world’s largest AI data centers at the Abilene campus.
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Shortages of crucial chip packaging material threatens AI accelerator supply chains — Nittobo’s Fukushima plant is tripling capacity, but it’ll take years before market

One Japanese company called Nittobo controls roughly 90% of the global supply of specialist glass-fiber cloth (T-glass), which sits inside every advanced AI chip package — and demand is now so high and supply so squeezed t…

3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control — throttled ASICs use printing bed as a heatsink

The creator of a 3D printer that mines Bitcoin took part in an interview on the Home Mining Podcast at the weekend.

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Researchers build atom-thin 2D thermometers that can be embedded directly in processors — can detect temperature changes in 100 nanoseconds, millions of times faster than the blink of an eye

Processors currently rely on temperature sensors positioned outside the chip die itself, which limits both the speed and precision of thermal monitoring.
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Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot’s guidelines and reach underlying AI engine

Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it’s prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to g…

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China warns of fresh chip shortage as Nexperia dispute escalates again – Dutch headquarters allegedly locked Chinese staff out of IT systems

China’s commerce ministry warned on Saturday of a renewed global semiconductor supply chain crisis, after Nexperia’s Netherlands disabled IT accounts for all employees at its Chinese operations.
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OpenAI’s massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can’t reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity

Financing terms and swinging OpenAI capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center. Yet, Meta could take the yet-to-be-expanded space.
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NASA successfully deflected a small asteroid with its DART rocket, kinetic strike ejected a significant amount of debris from the asteroid — impact nudges the orbit of the small astronomical body, affecting the larger cosmic object as well

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic bodies.
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Norwegian gov’t consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others — claims hardware deliberately degraded after purchase

“Companies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update,” says the report.
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