Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over chatbot monopoly
If you don't use my AI, I will sue
Elon Musk's AI outfit xAI has lobbed a lawsuit at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and its AI darling OpenAI, accusing them of colluding to squash competition in the generative chatbot space.
Nvidia pushes into self-driving cars as robot future looms
Chip giant sees its robot dreams on four wheels first
Nvidia has set its sights on self-driving cars as the next major cash cow for its physical AI push, hoping to ride a wave of autonomous vehicles before humanoid robots make it out of its smoke-filled labs.
Infineon links up with Nvidia for physical AI robots
Chipmaker arms Jetson Thor with smarter motors
Infineon has teamed up with Nvidia to push physical AI deeper into humanoid robotics, stuffing smarter motor control into the chip designer's Jetson Thor developer kits.
Nvidia shows off Blackwell GB200 and GB300 racks
Chipmaker talks modular MGX architecture and rack guts at Hot Chips 2025
Nvidia used Hot Chips 2025 to show how its Blackwell GB200 and GB300 systems are bolted together, highlighting its modular MGX platform and sprinkling in a bit of open compute virtue-signalling along the way.
SK hynix cranks out 321-layer QLC NAND
Chipmaker claims world’s first 300-plus layer QLC flash
SK hynix has started mass production of what it calls the world’s first 321-layer QLC NAND flash chip, a 2Tb storage device designed to push density well past anything seen before.
Pixel 10 forced battery throttle can't be switched off
Google locks users into slower charging and reduced battery capacity
Search giant Google has confirmed that its new Pixel 10 series phones will force users to accept automatic battery throttling through its Battery Health Assistance feature, which can't be disabled.
Mississippi law forces Bluesky to track kids
Social media age law demands surveillance lawmakers (probably) didn’t think through
Social notworking outfit, Bluesky has cut off access to everyone in Mississippi thanks to a sweeping new state law that not only demands age verification for social media users but forces platforms to track the movements and activity of minors.
Glorious people’s government secures ten per cent of Intel
10 per cent of capitalist chipmaker Intel brought into public ownership
In a heroic triumph of state planning over market chaos, the United States people’s government has secured a 10 per cent ownership stake in the formerly unaccountable capitalist chip monopoly, Intel, transforming it into a partially nationalised asset under the watchful guidance of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Comrade Howard Lutnick.
Instagram tops the list of privacy nightmares
Meta’s chat platforms lead Webshare’s hall of shame for leaky apps
Meta’s Instagram DMs have been named the least private digital service in a damning new study from proxy company Webshare.
US giants queue up for TSMC's Arizona silicon
TSMC's stateside fabs are in hot demand
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, Supermicro, Nvidia, and Broadcom are all shoving each other to the front of the queue for production capacity at TSMC’s Arizona factory.