US Commerce Department confirms harsh new AI export rules, shoots down reports over the return of Biden-era AI Diffusion rule — DoC to formalize a new approach to strategic AI accelerator export controls

The U.S. Commerce confirms work on new export regulations for AI accelerators, but implies they will not resemble the ill-fated AI Diffusion Rule.
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FBI arrests crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from seized government wallets — Suspect’s father was allegedly contractor for the US Marshals

John Daghita, the lead suspect in a major crypto theft worth $46 million has been arrested by the FBI, together with French authorities. Daghita allegedly siphoned funds from government-controlled wallets to his own, abusi…

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DoJ, Europol, and others bring down LeakBase cybercrime site of 142,000 member, multiple arrests made — seized website reportedly among world’s largest hacker forums

United States DoJ, Europol, and friends bring down LeakBase cybercrime forum

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US gov’t preps sweeping export controls for Nvidia, AMD AI hardware — worldwide licensing system would give Trump admin broad authority to block global sales

The Trump administration is working on sweeping export regulations over AI hardware that will make large AI clusters a topic of intergovernmental talks.
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As Frank Yeary retires from Intel, the company picks an engineer to chair its board — Intel Foundry governance issues to be resolved, and looking back at the Yeary years

Intel’s board of directors is getting a new independent chair, effective May 13, following the company’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.
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China’s top chip execs claim ASML alternative ‘small, fragmented, and weak’ — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools

China’s most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.
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China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take ‘extraordinary measures’ to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust “response mechanism” to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its “competitive advantages in rare earths…

Spiralling memory spot prices could trigger ‘industry cycle collapse,’ report warns — NAND wafer costs surge 25% in a single month

DDR5 16G (2Gx8) chips averaged $39, up 7.4% month-over-month, while 1Tb TLC flash wafers jumped 25% to $25.

OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors

OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.
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Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets ‘inbound interest’ — company cites increasing yields

Intel sees ‘inbound interest’ for 18A-P process technology despite 18A process variability.

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