OpenAI couldn’t finance its data centers, so it took control of the hardware instead — company’s chip design aspirations lag behind Google and Amazon

OpenAI spent much of 2025 trying to build its own AI data centers, only to find that it couldn’t secure financing on competitive terms.
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NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter’s Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its ‘ancient’ unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip was used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. But now that it’s been retired from service, NASA engineers found another use for this relatively powerful chip.
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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of ‘industrial-scale’ copying — Claims ‘distillation’ included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude.
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German data center giant hikes prices up to 37% starting April 1 — Hetzner cites rising hardware costs for price increases

German data center operator Hetzner announced today that it’s raising prices across its cloud, dedicated server, storage, and load balancer products starting April 1.
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Lenovo and Asus handheld owners warned as Ryzen Z1 Extreme driver support reportedly ends — lack of official updates threatens longevity for Legion Go, Go S, and ROG Ally X devices on Windows 11

AMD has reportedly stopped delivering new driver updates to handheld gaming PCs with the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, including Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S.
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Trump tariff turbulence risks handing TSMC a win over American chip manufacturers — prior exemptions for onshoring manufacturing may hinder the likes of Intel

The Trump Administrations’ new sweeping tariffs for all American imports could end up hurting American companies and benefitting their international competition at the same time, thanks to existing tariff carve-outs and ri…

Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.
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US exports from Taiwan now exceed exports from China for the first time in decades — AI gold rush fuels 93.5% jump in advanced system exports

Recent trade statistics indicate that Taiwan now supplies more goods to the U.S. than China does, but this is only a part of the picture, as Taiwan is rapidly increasing its exports to everywhere in the world.
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User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds

An AI strategist used Claude Code to reverse engineer his robot vacuum and control it with a PlayStation controller, but it accidentally gave him control of thousands of similar devices spread all across the world.
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55 years ago, the first computer search warrant was issued — in February 1971, a Santa Clara judge authorized police to seize punch cards and a ‘computer memory bank’

In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines.
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