India joins America-led Pax Silica supply chain effort to build semiconductor talent and reduce reliance on China — agreement spans from rare earths to chipmaking tools

With new fabs under development and a growing focus on skilled talent, India’s inclusion in Pax Silica points to a long-term effort by the U.S. and its partners to accelerate capacity building.
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U.S. Supreme Court shoots down President Trump’s tariffs — Consumer Technology Association hails ‘victory for all Americans,’ calls for swift refunds to retailers (update)

The Supreme Court told the Trump administration that the term “regulate” in the IEEPA does not give White House authority to impose tariffs on imports.
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AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims

Amazon suffered from a couple of small outages driven by actions of AI agents. The company insists that these are user errors because it accidentally gave the AI permission to execute actions without approval from another …

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns that firms are using ‘AI washing’ to mask layoffs across the globe — AI boss calls out corporate excuses while warning of ‘palpable’ job disruption ahead

In an interview at the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned his belief that AI is being used by businesses to explain unrelated layoffs, but that the technology will cause an impact in the near future.
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Zuckerberg cuts Meta employee bonuses by 5%, follows 10% reduction last year, despite AI splurge — $130 billion capex vision and eye-watering AI pay packages force efficiency elsewhere in the business

Meta reportedly cuts its stock option bonus rates for the second year in a row. 5% reduction follows 10% cut from the year before.
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$20 million lost in ‘jackpotting’ ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators

The FBI released a public warning, saying that ATM “jackpotting” incidents have exponentially increased in 2025.

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UALink roadmap plots course to optimized AI data center interconnects — examining the open standard designed to combat vendor lock-in while offering cost and performance optimization

Despite broad industry support, UALink’s adoption may be slowed by the absence of several features like In-Network Collectives and the 128G PHY spec.
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The state of China’s decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress — examining the original ‘Made in China 2025’ initiative

After 10 years and hundreds of billions of investments, China’s semiconductor supply chain is still decades behind chip supply chain in America and Taiwan.
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AMD’s AI chips to be used as debt collateral in $300 million loan, report says — Cloud startup to use chips in Ohio datacenter

AMD’s chips will be used as debt collateral in a $300 million loan to cloud startup Crusoe with financing from Goldman Sachs.
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