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Nvidia and Intel both issued high-profile declarations this week about their growing American manufacturing footprints, but the celebrations obscure a stubborn gap: every Blackwell chip fabricated at TSMC’s Phoenix facility still has to cross the Pacific for advanced packaging. Nvidia’s network of US partners and suppliers now spans 43 states, according to a July 2 […]
Aalo Atomics achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, known as criticality, for its Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on July 4, 2026, marking the first time a new sodium-cooled reactor has operated in the United States in more than four decades. The test reactor, which produces 10 megawatts of electric power (MWe), […]
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence video generation model, capable of producing 30-second native 4K clips from a single text prompt. The model was introduced at the company’s Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23 and is expected to launch publicly as soon as this week, with […]
Nvidia and Intel both issued high-profile declarations this week about their growing American manufacturing footprints, but the celebrations obscure a stubborn gap: every Blackwell chip fabricated at TSMC’s Phoenix facility still has to cross the Pacific for advanced packaging. Nvidia’s network of US partners and suppliers now spans 43 states, according to a July 2 […]
The AI bubble is no longer a concern confined to skeptical analysts and short-sellers. The Bank for International Settlements, the institution owned by the world’s central banks, has published a report drawing direct parallels between today’s AI infrastructure buildout and history’s great financial manias, from the British railway mania of the 1800s to the dot-com […]
Microsoft has cut 4,800 roles, approximately 2.1% of its global workforce, in a sweeping restructuring that targets its commercial business and Xbox division, as the company admits it cannot keep pace with the speed of technological change. The cuts fall hardest on the newly created Microsoft Commercial Business (MCB) and the Xbox gaming division, which […]
The AI bubble is no longer a concern confined to skeptical analysts and short-sellers. The Bank for International Settlements, the institution owned by the world’s central banks, has published a report drawing direct parallels between today’s AI infrastructure buildout and history’s great financial manias, from the British railway mania of the 1800s to the dot-com […]
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence video generation model, capable of producing 30-second native 4K clips from a single text prompt. The model was introduced at the company’s Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23 and is expected to launch publicly as soon as this week, with […]
The explosive growth of AI compute demand is running headlong into four structural supply chain bottlenecks that will constrain the industry for years, according to a detailed analysis from Semiconductor Engineering. The piece identifies advanced foundry and packaging capacity, memory supply (particularly HBM), data center power availability, and lasers for optical interconnect as the four […]
The quiet expiry of Secure Boot certificates is creating a security headache for Windows PC users, with many machines left unprotected, and the situation exposes a deeper problem with planned obsolescence in the PC industry, according to PCWorld. On June 24, security certificates underpinning Secure Boot began expiring on systems running Windows and Linux. Microsoft […]
