Elon Musk’s Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk’s TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, accor…

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CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason — sophisticated attack spreads through npm packages and uses ICP canister as control surface

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason

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Google’s TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times — up to 8x performance boost on Nvidia H100 GPUs, compresses KV caches to 3 bits with no accuracy loss

In benchmarks on Nvidia H100 GPUs, 4-bit TurboQuant delivered up to an eight-times performance increase in computing attention logits compared to unquantized 32-bit keys.
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Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’

A family in Northern Kentucky received a $26 million offer for half their land — a price that’s worth more than 7 times the going rate for the area. But despite the massive price, they still refused, saying that they “fed …

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The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal proves how cut-throat the global AI race has become — as global trade evolves, so does export control evasion

One of the co-founders of American server company Super Micro has been arrested and charged with smuggling AI chips to China in deals worth several billions of dollars. Several managers and contractors are also implicated,…

Flipper Zero pen-testing tool gets an AI-powered companion app — natural language interface allows for faster, easier hacking

If controlling the notorious Flipper Zero pen-testing and hacking tool using its native interface is too difficult, a new AI-powered companion app for Android, called V3SP3R, is ready to help you make the most of it.
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HP’s new AI workstation can expand horizontally to add 15% more internal volume — alternate side panel also includes more active cooling

HP’s Z8 Fury G6i workstation has an alternate “max” side panel that makes the internal chassis 15% larger and adds more active cooling to the system.
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Arm moves beyond IP with AGI CPU silicon — 136-core data center chip targets AI infrastructure with Meta as lead partner

Arm has announced its AGI CPU, an up-to 136-core data center processor that the company designed in-house and will sell as finished silicon.
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Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models could hasten historically lengthy processes

Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia’s Omniverse platf…

SK hynix places record $8 billion order for ASML EUV lithography machines — should pay for up to 30 EUV machines over two years, serving HBM and advanced DRAM production

SK hynix disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it will purchase 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) worth of EUV lithography equipment from ASML.
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