Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft’s ‘world’s most powerful AI data center’ due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention cons

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China-made CXMT memory now supports faster speeds on MSI’s AMD motherboards — new BIOS adds DDR5-8200 validation on dual-DIMM, DDR5-7200 on quad-DIMM models

The test BIOS comes from MSI China — there’s no announcement on global channels for some reason, and it’s only available for select motherboards at the moment. MSI tested region-bound retail kits from Lexar and KingBank …

South Korea’s $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul’s total power demand

KEPCO and the government plan six LNG plants inside the Yongin complex, starting at about 3 GW and scaling toward 10 GW, to bridge the supply gap until the transmission network is finished. Both Samsung and SK hynix hold…

DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent

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Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…