DJI sues the FCC over its prohibition on importing new foreign-made drones into the US — Chinese firm contests its placement on the regulator’s ‘covered list’

Following the FCC’s decision last year to put DJI on its “Covered List’ of blacklisted companies, the drone firm has just sued the agency. It argues that the import ban undermines the principles of a fair market, while den…

US gov’t warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps ‘with one eye open’

A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry’s most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding Chi…

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Qualcomm’s 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment — Saudi Arabia’s Humain takes delivery of 1,024 systems

Qualcomm’s 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment

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AI boosted US economy by ‘basically zero’ in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist — ‘We think there’s been a lot of misreporting of the impact that AI investment had on GDP growth’

The U.S. economy isn’t being propped up by AI investment, despite the common narrative. According to Goldman Sachs, despite hundreds of billions in investment announcements, AI has done little to uplift American financial …

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Apple to produce Mac Minis in Houston for the first time — US chip sourcing tops 20 billion units

Apple announced that it will begin producing the Mac Mini in Houston, Texas later this year, marking the first time that the compact desktop has ever been manufactured in the United States.
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AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares

AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.

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AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta’s AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

Meta’s AI Director of Alignment asked OpenClaw to clean up her inbox, only for the AI agent to nuke everything inside.
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ASML makes breakthrough in EUV chipmaking tech, plans to increase speed by 50% by 2030 — new 1,000-watt light source fires three lasers at 100,000 tin droplets every second

ASML to use a new CO2 laser system and tin droplet generator to increase EUV light source performance to 1000W and lithography tool productivity to 330 wafers per hour in 2030 and beyond.
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Anthropic’s new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, sending 115-year-old IBM’s stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting

IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling

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Optical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latency — Taara Beam uses silicon photonics technology, device about as big as a shoebox

The Taara Beam offers a fiber-like connection without the hassle of acquiring right-of-way and laying cable. It delivers up 25 Gbps of throughput with ultra-low latency at a range of up to 10 km.
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