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Apple in Talks to Buy Memory Chips From China's CXMT and YMTC as AI Squeezes Supply
The iPhone maker is lobbying Washington to allow purchases from two blacklisted Chinese chipmakers, as the global AI boom leaves consumer devices starved of memory.
Cambricon Hits $147 Billion, Targets 500,000 AI Chips as China Races to Replace Nvidia
The Shanghai chip designer became the first Star Market stock to reach a trillion-yuan market cap, riding a domestic AI hardware push Beijing is backing with an estimated $98 billion this year.
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to Shut Down AI Agent Features on July 15
China's new rules on humanlike AI services force the country's two biggest chatbots to pull user-created agents, with 345 million Doubao users losing their AI companions.
Researchers Document JadePuffer — the First Fully Agentic Ransomware Attack
Sysdig's threat team captured an LLM-driven agent that autonomously exploited a Langflow flaw, stole credentials, moved laterally and encrypted a production database — recovering from a failed login in 31 seconds.
Meta Plans Cloud Business to Sell Its 'Excess' AI Computing Power
An internal unit called Meta Compute — led by infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross — would put the company in direct competition with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, a Vibe-Coded App for AI-Generated Mini-Games
Built on the team behind Meta's Gizmo acquisition, Pocket lets users create playable games from a text prompt — no coding required — as Meta pushes AI creation tools toward the mainstream.
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, the Company's First Custom AI Chip
Co-developed in a nine-month sprint, the reticle-sized inference processor is designed around OpenAI's vision for LLM serving — and aimed at deployment in gigawatt-scale data centers by year-end.
Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides in Miami — No One in the Front Seat
Miami becomes Tesla's first robotaxi market outside Texas and California, with fully driverless rides from day one and Florida's rain posing the hardest test yet for camera-only FSD.
Anthropic Moves to Close Loopholes Chinese Firms Use to Access Claude
FT reporting reveals Ant Group ran corporate Claude accounts through a Singapore entity while ByteDance reimbursed engineers for VPN-accessed subscriptions — practices Anthropic is now shutting down.
Unsealed Emails Reveal Pentagon Pressed Anthropic to Drop Autonomous-Weapons Red Lines
Court documents show months of tense exchanges between Dario Amodei and Under Secretary Emil Michael — including a 'very close' email sent the day after the Pentagon finalized its blacklist designation.
China Fast-Tracks Humanoid Robots Into Industry Under Nationwide Embodied AI Program
The MIIT and state assets regulator are pushing companies to deploy robots in factories, hospitals and emergency response — with 2026 shipments forecast to hit 50,000 units.
As AI Pushes Data Centres to Breaking Point, Chinese Chipmakers Bet on Silicon Carbide
With racks now drawing power at levels copper and silicon struggle to handle, a cohort of Chinese semiconductor firms sees an opening in SiC power devices for AI infrastructure.