Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to curb rising electricity prices in the US

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices t…

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HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

Interim CEO Bruce Broussard told investors the company has responded by securing long-term supply agreements for the year and has “qualified new suppliers”.
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AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke deton…

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Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

Nvidia begins to ship samples of its Vera Rubin platforms for AI to partners, on track for revenue shipments in the second half of the year.
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Inside Meta and AMD’s $100 billion deal, and why AMD is giving up a slice of the company in return for GPU orders — Meta stays platform-agnostic as it develops AI compute strategy

AMD and Meta’s blockbuster deal could see the company signing away 10% of shares in the business to Meta. We examine why AMD is keen to secure AI hardware orders, and explore Meta’s AI compute strategy.
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China to increase leading-edge chip output by 5x in two years, report claims — aims to lift 7nm and 5nm production to 100,000 wafers per month, targeting half a million monthly by 2030

Chinese foundries looking to increase 7nm and below capacity to 100,000 wafer starts per month in one or two years, says Nikkei.
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Nvidia still hasn’t sold a single H200 to China nearly three months after getting the green light from the White House — U.S. Commerce official says department hasn’t approved any sales during a House hearing

U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary for export enforcement David Peters said that his agency has not approved a single H200 export license since President Donald Trump allowed Nvidia to sell them to China.
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Trump administration to use Pentagon AI to set mineral reference prices — gallium and germanium among first four targets

The Trump administration wants to use DARPA’s Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should cost once labor, proc…

Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads — Sambanova claims SN50 chip is three times more efficient than Nvidia B200

SambaNova says its SN50 AI accelerator platform is about five times faster and three times more efficient than Nvidia’s B200. In addition, the company signs a pact with Intel to offer Xeon-based AI systems to enterprises a…

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The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up after 37 years on the sea floor — TAT-8 to be removed after entering service in 1988, broke in 2002

Subsea Environmental Services is currently hauling TAT-8 off the seabed near Portugal, more than two decades after it was decommissioned.
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