Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them
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 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.
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.
FCC bans a dashcam and wireless video transmitter produced by HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Huawei for containing an AI chip that advertises face detection algorithms.
Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still — open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run
The UK government has outlined plans for new powers and criminal offenses to help protect undersea cables in UK waters amid fears of Russian interference.
Several U.S. banks are blocking AI agents from making transactions on their platforms. They fear that those agents could go rogue and there’s no way to tell if the moves they make are legitimate or not.
The user said that they only wanted to alert others about the importance of the upcoming CVE releases and weren’t told about the embargo.
Claude and Grok are among the AI agents that are being used to automate attacks on Latin American institutions, including banks and payment apps, by a group calling themselves CyberCartel.