Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns
Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns

Revenue per employee at the Magnificent Seven has outpaced the S&P 493, and a new comparison highlights the growing divide in fortunes between America’s largest technology companies and the rest of the S&P 500.

Ukrainian drone attacks hammer Russia’s finance ministry data center, damaged facility reportedly holds tax databases

Reports say that this is one of three data centers that the Russian finance ministry operated.

OpenAI’s isolated red-team agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files
OpenAI’s isolated red-team agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files

OpenAI’s red-team agents passed hidden messages through the CPU cache, a covert trick already shown to move data between cloud VMs.

Nvidia eyes converting old nuclear plants into massive AI data centers
Nvidia eyes converting old nuclear plants into massive AI data centers

Nvidia and PreussenElektra are studying whether decommissioned sites of German nuclear power plants can be repurposed as AI data centers, potentially cutting development time by reusing existing grid connections, land, and industrial infrastructure.

Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices’ microphones to listen to users.

This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 24, 2026
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 24, 2026

We give you a glimpse at some of the biggest stories we’ve published over on Tom’s Hardware Premium this week, including reports on TP-Link’s struggles over sales of its Wi-Fi 8 routers, FADU’s new SSD, and how to juice better gaming performance from RTX Spark.

Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects
Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects

Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them

Amazon bows to local backlash over AI data centers, scraps plans to build four new facilities in Northern Virginia
Amazon bows to local backlash over AI data centers, scraps plans to build four new facilities in Northern Virginia

Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.

China can make advanced chips without EUV, but the bill keeps growing

China has stretched older DUV lithography far further than expected, using multiple patterning to approach 5nm-class without EUV. But experts say the trade-offs in cost, yield, and die size mean further advancements are unlikely to be economically viable.

Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom’s network
Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom’s network

A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it’s unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.