The AI boom is creating a gold rush for TSMC’s most advanced manufacturing. New reports indicate its 2nm process is already fully booked for 2026 and is projected to generate more cumulative revenue than its current 3nm and 5nm nodes by the third quarter of that year. This is despite the company imp
Samsung is drastically ramping up its production capacity for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips. This major investment targets the core hardware need of the AI era, as demand from companies like NVIDIA continues to surge.
According to a Forbes report, AI systems are compounding the invisibility of women’s health by learning from a digital ecosystem that suppresses it. Content on topics like menopause and endometriosis is routinely flagged as “adult” or “sensitive,” stripping it of the authority signals AI needs to su
After years of god-like hype, 2025 forced the AI industry to confront some hard truths. The “reasoning” in models is often an illusion, legal bills are massive, and the chatbots are making us a little crazy. Welcome to the pragmatic era.
Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher, is urging global leaders to be prepared to disconnect advanced AI systems. He cautions that models are already showing early signs of resisting control, and granting them legal rights would be a “huge mistake.”
Meta is acquiring AI agent startup Manus for over $2 billion. This isn’t about buying a better model; it’s about buying the execution engine. The move signals a critical pivot in the AI race.
Facing protests over a plummeting currency, Iran’s government says it will set up a dialogue mechanism with demonstrators. The rial hit a record low of 1,390,000 to the dollar this week, accelerating inflation and public anger.
Shares of AI drug discovery firm Insilico surged in their Hong Kong debut. Meanwhile, the acquisition of AI agent startup Manus appears to have delivered a huge win for Benchmark Capital, a firm many had written off.
Maxon has released Cinebench 2026, a major update to its industry-standard benchmarking tool. It adds support for the latest hardware, including Apple’s M4 and M5 chips and NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, and introduces a new test for SMT-enabled CPU cores. Critically, scores from this version cannot be co
Nvidia is paying $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to Groq’s inference chip technology, with $13B already wired. Founder Jonathan Ross gets a stock package worth hundreds of millions. But what’s the real strategy behind this massive check?
