Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own d…
MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US labs’ margins. China’s open-model push has a new hea…
With all the terrible news of layoffs and that the games industry is in a dire state, some people online have said a crash is the only way to fix things. It won’t.
The copper boom is hitting a familiar wall as substitution with aluminum gathers pace as the copper-to-aluminum price ration blows out
China’s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation’s best AI models, Reuters reports. The Ministry of Commerce ran th…
Post something a South Korean court later rules false, and it could cost you five times the damage. The country’s new “fake news” law is now in force, and journalists are alarmed. South Korea has begun enforcing a tough law against false information on…
Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors’ appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese firm is selling 50 mill…
With the imminent expiration of lockup periods on Wednesday, MiniMax Group founder Yan Junjie faces an uphill battle persuading investors to hold on to the Hong Kong-listed AI model developer’s shares.
South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff…
Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…