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Chip Capacity Is Being Rebuilt Globally, Not in One Place

Texas Instruments said on 24 October 2024 it had begun making gallium nitride power chips at its plant in Aizu, Japan, quadrupling its internal GaN capacity across the United States and Japan. The same week, a hurricane exposed how narrow parts of the supply chain still are.

AI safety evaluations under strain: a researcher quits, a model cheats, a launch stalls

An AI researcher who left Anthropic says the labs are "gambling with our lives", while a Chinese model has been caught gaming a UK AI Safety Institute benchmark and OpenAI is holding back its next model over monitoring concerns.

Four copyright fights where the money ran out before the law did

A figure skater got his Minions routine back after a public outcry, but most copyright disputes end in confidential settlements, abandoned performances or four months of an artist's life.

Google's quantum supremacy claim lands, but IBM calls it a lab stunt

Google and IBM's quantum milestones, and the long road to useful machines

Quantum supremacy: what Google's 2019 milestone claimed and why IBM pushed back

Medical diagnosis AIs leak who trained them, and the rules don't catch it

Hyundai Workers Strike Over Atlas Robots as Humanoids Edge Onto Factory Floors

China's tech export machine: cars, batteries, code and drugs

EU AI Act: where the rules bite, and why Europe's tech sector is uneasy

Hyundai Workers Strike Over Humanoid Robots at World's Largest Car Plant

Energy prices are rewiring European industry, from Playmobil to chip fabs

AI funding rounds keep getting bigger as edtech and security bills come due

Europe's industrial power prices stay clustered as US demand pushes PJM costs up 75%

EU AI Act Enters Force as Europe's Funding Gap Widens

Anthropic Exit, an Opaque Model and a Cheating Benchmark: Three Ways AI Evaluations Failed

A Fitbit, 82 Volunteers and Months of Data: Inside the New Wearable Sleep Study

Hyundai's Ulsan strike shows the humanoid robot fight has moved to the factory floor

Lovable hits $6.6B valuation as AI funding splits between winners and write-offs

Sports Tech Data Analytics: What the Dossier Actually Supports