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The semiconductor industry is facing a new kind of bottleneck: verification methodologies that cannot keep pace with the AI tools being deployed to solve them. In a detailed analysis from Semiconductor Engineering, industry leaders from Synopsys, Cadence, ChipAgents, Arteris, and other firms describe a landscape where AI is being deployed in every possible way to […]

Apple raised prices on its Mac computers, iPads, Vision Pro headset, HomePod speakers, and Apple TV set-top boxes on Thursday, the first time the company has imposed mid-cycle price increases across this many product lines at once. The increases went live globally on Apple’s online store Thursday morning, briefly taking down the site. Macs saw […]

Getting a humanoid robot to perform agile, whole-body motions is harder than it looks. Most text-to-motion AI models train on captured human movement data, then retarget those motions onto robots. The problem: human biomechanics, mass distribution, and contact strategies differ fundamentally from a robot’s, so motions that look kinematically correct on a skeleton often violate […]

OpenAI has agreed to delay the release of its next-generation model, GPT-5.6, following a request from the Trump administration citing cybersecurity concerns, according to a report from The Verge. The administration asked OpenAI to stagger the model’s rollout, and the government will now approve customer access on a case-by-case basis. The request aligns with a […]

Microsoft has announced price increases across its Xbox console lineup, just hours after Apple raised prices on Macs and iPads, both driven by the same root cause: surging memory chip costs from the AI data centre boom. The new prices take effect worldwide on August 1. The Xbox Series S 512 GB rises from US$399 […]

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s CleverHans Lab have demonstrated a new kind of malware: an AI-powered computer worm that does not follow a fixed script but reasons about each target it encounters and crafts a custom attack strategy on the fly. The worm runs on a single GPU using a freely available open-weight language […]

The hope of affordable DDR5 memory before 2030 effectively died on June 24, when Micron reported its fiscal third-quarter results and revealed a new commercial model that structurally breaks the semiconductor industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle. Micron posted revenue of US$41.5 billion for the quarter, up 346 percent from a year earlier, with gross margin hitting […]

Amazon has pledged US$13 billion in additional investment to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in India through 2030, bringing its total committed investment in the country to US$48 billion across three major commitments since 2023. The announcement came after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The funds […]

Meta is reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on Facebook. The app, currently being tested with select creators, integrates Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant, which provides personalised recommendations based on content style, performance data, audience engagement, and goals. Creators can ask conversational […]

IBM has demonstrated a prototype chip that packs approximately 100 billion transistors onto an area the size of a human fingernail, roughly double the density of its previous state-of-the-art announced in 2021. The advance could extend Moore’s Law for another 10 to 15 years, according to industry analysts. The chip uses a complementary field-effect transistor […]