Tech

Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago China AI Nvidia

Samsung says the memory shortage will worsen in 2027 as customers are already placing orders for that year, leading to a projected supply gap larger than 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
15 days ago Samsung

10 Massive Landmarks Built to Bury Dark Historical Secrets (listverse.com)
15 days ago

How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Unemployment

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the chip toolmaker after it discovered his family had invested in competing Chinese startups (www.ft.com)
15 days ago China Startup Tokyo

European software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Europe AI Iran

Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams (www.gamespot.com)
15 days ago Sony

Memo: Google told employees that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over US DOD contracts (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Google

First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (tech.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Tesla

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (giftarticle.ft.com)
15 days ago Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 (counterpointresearch.com)
15 days ago Apple

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (www.wired.com)
15 days ago Robot

GoTo reports net income of ~$15M for Q1 2026, its first ever, after job cuts and unit disposals helped Indonesia's largest internet company reduce costs (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Indonesia

Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts (www.anthropic.com)
15 days ago

Hyundai unveils Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with Gleo AI voice assistant, debuting in May on the new Grandeur sedan in South Korea (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Korea AI

OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, with 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI

Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders told the NHTSA that Waymo robotaxis are “backsliding” and committing more traffic violations than before (www.wired.com)
15 days ago San Francisco

Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (yro.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Elon Musk

Musk v. Altman: internal 2017 emails show Musk sought majority voting control over OpenAI co-founders, withheld promised funding, and tried to poach researchers (www.wired.com)
15 days ago

FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (www.nextgov.com)
15 days ago AI

Analysts: TikTok Shop generated $4.9B in US sales during Q1 2026, doubling its volume from the previous year; Q1 consumer spending on the platform rose 46% YoY (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can “read” images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (www.wired.com)
15 days ago

Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (www.coindesk.com)
15 days ago

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago YouTube

Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago China Shanghai

Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to ~$90.2B, vs. ~$89.4B est., and operating profit up 756% to ~$38.5B, vs. ~$37.2B est., driven by AI-linked memory demand (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago Samsung AI

Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (www.ft.com)
16 days ago AI Robot

New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says (yro.slashdot.org)
16 days ago

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