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SoftBank is securing a $5 billion loan backed by Arm shares to expand its OpenAI and AI infrastructure investments, raising total Arm-collateralized debt to $18.5 billion and further highlighting its leveraged AI expansion strategy.

Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans.

China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain.

Beijing has banned TechInsights from doing business with Chinese companies because it has "defied China's strong objections to engage in activities such as so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, made malicious remarks concerning China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies."

Microsoft has just added a GB300 NVL72 supercluster to Azure, deploying a total of 4,608 GB300 GPUs across 64 racks. Each rack consists of 72x GPUs interconnected via NVLink, allowing for 1.44 PFLOPS of FP4 Tensor Core performance. Each rack is then intra-connected via Quantum-X800 InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s per…

Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on unlicensed Nvidia chip shipments, with enforcement teams deploying at major ports to inspect hardware shipments.

An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC.

Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering performance.

An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.

858 TB of South Korean government data goes up in smoke, with no backups

AMD is set to use TSMC's leading-edge N2 fabrication process for its next-generation CDNA 5-based Instinct MI450 accelerators, but Nvidia's Rubin may have an edge over these GPUs when it comes to brute force compute performance.