US closes loophole that allowed Chinese-owned subsidiaries located outside China to buy AI chips — report claims that hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips have been acquired through BIS blind spot

The BIS just issued a clarification that Chinese-owned subsidiaries are included in U.S. export controls, even if they’re based outside of China. However, one source said that some companies have been using this loophole t…

Negative time experiment clears peer review as photons appear to leave an atom cloud before entering — groundbreaking quantum ‘negative time’ proven after 1 million test runs

A University of Toronto experiment showing that photons can spend a negative amount of time inside a cloud of atoms has been published in Physical Review Letters.
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Computex 2026 Live: Every update and announcement from day two in Taipei

Every update live from Taipei as Computex continues in Taiwan.

Watch Nvidia’s Computex 2026 keynote here — Jensen Huang takes the stage for Computex and GTC Taipei at 8pm PT / 11pm ET on May 31

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage at Computex 2026 and GTC Taipei. Here’s how to watch the keynote address, where we could hear more about the rumored N1X.
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SoftBank to spend up to $87 billion on French AI data centers — country offers ample nuclear grid that US sites lack

SoftBank carries over $130 billion in debt and took a $40 billion bridge loan in March to fund its latest OpenAI investment.
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New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April

A new cryptocurrency called Pearl has set off a short-lived GPU mining rush.

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A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco — Airbnb hosts allege ‘guests’ secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed

Picture this: you’re the owner of a dainty place in San Francisco. You put it up on Airbnb, considering the area is sprawling with AI bros, thinking you’d get a pretty good return on your investment. What you actually get …

Nikon weaponizes lower prices to break ASML’s lithography monopoly — tech giant leverages in-house manufacturing to slash prices to lure back American chipmakers

Nikon will try to claw back lithography customers by selling argon fluoride (ArF) tools for less than the market leader, ASML.
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Kevin O’Leary claims Chinese propaganda is to blame for anti-datacenter backlash, ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ being spent to kill US dominance in AI — industry proponents and Trump administration reinforce claims of foreign interference

Kevin O’Leary claims Chinese propaganda to blame for anti-datacenter sentiment.

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Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech

Huawei’s current Rotating Chairman thanked the United States for its export bans, which boosted the progress of China’s semiconductor industry. He made the comment after unveiling the groundbreaking LogicFolding chip archi…