Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidi

The source didn’t name the chip supplier, but Z.ai’s recent training history points to Huawei. The company released GLM-5.2 in June , an open-weight model purportedly trained entirely on Huawei Ascend accelerators with n…

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated libr

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TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes

“I am really jealous about memory companies’ 86% gross margin,” said C.C. Wei, chief executive of TSMC, during the company’s earnings call with financial analysts and investors. “86% [margin at memory makers] – 68% [marg…

Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions

One of the biggest concerns of U.S. leaders have is that these AI models might come with vulnerabilities that the Chinese government can use to attack American interests, but Huang said that this is an incorrect assumpti…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace’s pro

For its part, OpenAI says it’s going to add controls to the bot “at the cost of research velocity,” and that the incident “points to the need to further strengthen our model’s alignment, cyber protections during evaluati…

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated libr

Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He\u2019s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he\u2019s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electron…

142 AI data center protests staged in 42 states as public opposition increases — organizers brand ‘unaccountable’ buildouts as an ‘unacceptable infringement on

Data centers have faced shortages of various kinds in the past few years — it began with GPU supply, then evolved into a memory chip bottleneck. Alongside that, there’s also the limited supply of electricity from the gri…