AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material
 AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach
 OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach

Industry leading tech companies have formed an “Open Secure AI Alliance” that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach.

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Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run
 Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run

Moonshot AI has released the weights for its recent Kimi-K3 model, directly going against OpenAI and Anthropic.

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China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT
 China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT

A state-backed company in Shanghai has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines and is due to deliver the first units this year.

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Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank’s 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy’s 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.

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AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google’s Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory
 AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google’s Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory

Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.

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‘It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room’: Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents

Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, filed a case against a data center for generating noise pollution 24/7 for over two years. They said that the site has violated city noise ordinances but hasn’t made any improvements.

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Chinese memory maker CXMT posts blistering 466% leap in Shanghai IPO — bulk of spending to be focused on DRAM production, no HBM in sight
 Chinese memory maker CXMT posts blistering 466% leap in Shanghai IPO — bulk of spending to be focused on DRAM production, no HBM in sight

The prospectus splits 29.5 billion yuan across three projects.

California’s largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-acre farm amidst concern about jobs and reallocation of farmland
 California’s largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-acre farm amidst concern about jobs and reallocation of farmland

Buildout of large AI data centers in regions historically specializing in agriculture may have long-lasting consequences.

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Physicists turn particles in chaotic orbits into liquid computers — but this fluid hardware still trails memristor rivals

Each oscillator is a silica sphere of 3μm radius, capped on one side with 80nm of carbon and suspended in a water-lutidine mixture held at 28°C.