Jon Martindale

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EU pushes for Chips Act 2.0 investment as it looks set to miss global silicon production targets by a wide margin — seeks quadrupling of semiconductor investment as $50 billion initiative flounders

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A group of countries pressed the EU to quadruple spending on semiconductors.

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OpenAI's significant investments raise more questions than answers — CEO Sam Altman remains tight-lipped about how the company will deliver

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Premium Long-term profitability is still a vague idea.

Man with DIY exoskeleton mounted on his forearm playing Aim Trainer.

YouTuber's homebrew aim-assist exoskeleton grabs them second place in global Aimlabs leader board — 63% aim boost from AI-powered project

By Jon Martindale published

A YouTube gamer has constructed a homebrew aim-assist exoskeleton which tracks on-screen movement and adjusts his aim physically, helping to max out his score in Aimlabs' FPS training program.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat next to Apple CEO, Tim Cook.

OpenAI makes flurry of deals in drive towards for-profit model — AI giant teams up with Nvidia, Luxshare, Apple, and more

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Premium OpenAI is making major moves to secure future GPUs and accelerate its hardware plans in a flurry of major deals worth billions of dollars, though questions remain about its future funding.

Jensen Huang explaining to the press.

Nvidia promises its $100 billion OpenAI deal won't impact GPU supply — 'we will continue to make every customer a top priority'

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Pinkie promise...

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$115 million ransomware hacker arrested over extortion attacks — Scattered Spider alumnus allegedly involved in over 120 computer network intrusions targeting 47 U.S. entities

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The British national is accused of hacking over 120 computer networks and attacking close to 50 different U.S. entities.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang looking smug during a Thematic Event on Advanced Manufacturing in China.

Nvidia drops a cool $900 million on Enfabrica tech and hiring its CEO, report claims — AI networking chip company boasts capacity to connect 100,000 GPUs together

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Rochan Sankar and other employees will move over to Nvidia, and it gets to license the firm's technology.

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Asus is 'actively investigating' ROG gaming laptop stuttering woes — Models released / sold between 2021 - 2024 affected by 'performance interruptions'

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Seems to affect Asus ROG gaming laptops from between 2021 and 2024.

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UK cosies up to big tech with $42 billion data center and AI investment deal

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Premium UK inks deals with OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Coreweave, ScaleAI, and more.

Jensen Huang looking surprised in a chat with media.

Nvidia's China-exclusive RTX 6000D reportedly gets lukewarm reception in China due to hobbled performance — could leave Nvidia with huge backlog of unwanted GPUs

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Estimates put production at over two million of these GPUs.

Google CEO Sundar Pinchai waving.

Google terminates 200 AI contractors — 'ramp-down' blamed, but workers claim questions over pay and job insecurity are the real reason behind layoffs

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Some believe they were let go because of complaints over working conditions and compensation.

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Hacker ransomware groups announce retirement to enjoy their "golden parachutes" — no further attacks planned, future attributed activities will relate to undisclosed past breaches

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They ride off into the sunset taking their millions with them

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China accuses Nvidia of anti-monopoly law violations, raising prospect of heavy fines — company could be fined 10% of revenue from China

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This may also be another indirect tactic in the ongoing trade negotiations.

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OpenAI and Microsoft reach an understanding over ongoing contract negotiations — but AGI clause remains an uncertainty

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Premium OpenAI and Microsoft has struck a memorandum of understanding on their ongoing contract negotiations, opening the door for OpenAI to begin corporate restructuring.

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The new frontier: Meet the power players cashing in on the AI gold rush

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Premium Many of the world's richest people are the founders and CEOs of the top tech firms cashing in on the big AI boom, with some particular standouts "earning" tens of billions of dollars in a single day.

Larry Ellison in the oval office.

OpenAI signs contract to buy $300 billion worth of Oracle computing power over the next five years — company needs 4.5 gigawatts of power, enough to power four million homes

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Instantly boosting Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to the world's richest man, but questions remain about how either company will afford such a deal.

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DDoS scrubbing service ironic target of massive attack it was built to prevent — hit with 1.5 billion packets per second from more than 11,000 distributed networks

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A DDoS scrubbing service has been hit with a massive attack from over 11,000 distributed networks, with peak traffic of 1.5 billion packets per second.

Interior of a PC with an RTX 3080 Ti and Threadripper CPU.

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside

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A lucky online auction bidder has scored an $8,000 PC for just $23, bidding on a mislabelled Fractal Design case that actually had a full system inside.

Nvidia Blackwell Ultra server stack.

Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200

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Big increases in performance when running a range of popular open source models.

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Intel confirms Arrow Lake refresh set for 2026, Nova Lake later that year — company admits there are 'holes to fill on the desktop front,' says it is 'confident in the roadmap'

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Though the next-generation chip launch looks set to extend into 2027, too.

General Atomics laser mounted on top of a prop plane.

World's first laser communication link between a plane and satellite ran at 1 Gbps — 10-watt laser which has a 3,417 mile range and 2.5 Gbps max data rate

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Showcasing an important alternative to radio-based, high-speed communication.

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Intel ousts CEO of Products as part of the latest executive shake-up, ending 30-year career — company also establishes new custom chip design unit

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This continues shake ups under the new CEO who has previously announced plans to flatten executive structure, making more departments and people answer to him directly.

OpenAI logo on a phone in front of an Indian flag.

Despite whispers of a bubble, OpenAI is planning a gigawatt-scale data center in India

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Premium As the second-largest market for ChatGPT, OpenAI looks to secure local infrastructure and investment.

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Chinese social media firms comply with strict AI labelling law, making it clear to users and bots what's real and what's not

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It's part of a broader push by the Cyberspace Administration of China to have greater oversight over the AI industry and the content it produces.

Noctua case with 3D printer side panel.

Noctua's 3D printable side panel quiets Framework's Desktop — drop 5-7 decibels using this freely available mod

By Jon Martindale published

The Framework Desktop is plenty quiet already, but with a Noctua 3D printed side panel, duct, and fan, it can run even quieter.